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World Service,17 Sep 2012,18 mins

French super-tax

Business Daily

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Are France's super-rich voting with their feet over plans for a new 75% tax on income over $1.2 million a year? Jonty Bloom reports from Paris. And Lesley Curwen talks to Jerome Lefevre who runs the CJD, an association of 4,000 French entrepreneurs about reaction to the proposed measure for millionaires. Plus Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times looks at the sensitive issues around pregnancy at work.

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