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Matemma. Sretna nova.

Entrepreneurs follow Depardieu out of France

By Hugh Carnegy and Scheherazade Daneshkhu in Paris

Jean-Gil Boitouzet’s departure may not cause the same hullabaloo as the tax exile of Gérard Depardieu but, like the film star, the businessman is quitting France for Belgium.

Mr Boitouzet, a founder of the online brokerage Bourse Direct, has decided to base his new venture in Brussels. He will move across the border before January 1, when President François Hollande’s new tax regime – including a 75 per cent marginal rate of income tax – takes effect.

He says tax is not the main reason he is relocating to Belgium, but rather the anti-business culture in France.

“It is like boiling the frog. But I am jumping out of the water before it boils.”

A “morose” national mood and high taxes add up to a hostile “ambience”, he says. “This is a country where there is no growth, the cost of labour is very high, and when entrepreneurs succeed they are criticised for exploiting their workers.”

Just how many people are treading a similar path to Mr Boitouzet and Mr Depardieu – to less harsh tax regimes in Belgium, Britain, Switzerland and beyond – is impossible to gauge: the two men are unusual in being open about their plans.

Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury group LVMH and France’s richest man, who has applied for Belgian nationality, has denied the move is tax-driven. Alain Afflelou, who runs a chain of opticians, said this week he was moving to London to expand his business, but insisted he would continue to pay taxes in France.

But Yves Bontaz, of the eponymous car industry supplier, told Challenges magazine last month that tax was the reason he was “packing my suitcase”.

With the case of Mr Depardieu swinging an uncomfortable spotlight on to the issue, the Socialist government is now coming under pressure to produce figures for those leaving – and for the tax receipts France is losing as a result.

At issue are three main features of the new tax regime: the 75 per cent rate to apply for two years to incomes above €1m; a sharp increase in wealth taxes on fortunes above €1.3m; and a rise in capital gains taxes. Some of these rates took effect in mid-2012. Mr Depardieu said that, as a consequence, he paid an effective rate of 85 per cent on his income this year.

Among those staying is Jean-David Chamboredon, an investor in digital start-ups and one of the founders of Les Pigeons , an online protest by mainly young entrepreneurs angered by a rise in capital gains taxes to as much as 60 per cent.

“I want to stay in France and I will continue to fight for a tax regime to make that possible,” he said.

But he added: “My forecast is that investment by business angels may well decrease by a third or maybe a half in 2013. There will be hundreds of start-ups that will die or will not get off the ground.”

Olivier Dauchez, a lawyer at the Paris firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, whose clients include many top French companies, says there is a history of people leaving France for tax reasons – but today it is different.

“Before, it was people who had already made their fortune,” he said. “The striking new factor is that many of those leaving or who are thinking of leaving are those who are still creating wealth.”

Eric Ginter, a tax partner at Paris-based business law firm STC Partners, says that of 15 clients he has seen this year considering tax exile, 10 have left. “They are leaving not only because of the increased tax burden but because of fiscal uncertainty,” he said. “I expect the exodus to continue next year.”

Although big companies are not relocating headquarters, in some cases they are examining moving some management operations. “For the biggest French companies, it is easier to move their top executives outside France since they have multiple business locations in different countries,” said Maxence Bloch, a partner in the Paris office of the law firm SJ Berwin.

Charles-Marie Jottras is chairman of Daniel Féau estate agents, which is selling Mr Depardieu’s €50m Paris house. He reports a wave of prime properties coming up for sale. “Our agencies in the best parts of Paris say that one-third of their December revenues are on sales of apartments for people leaving France. I have never seen anything like this before in my 27 years at the agency.”

The government’s main response has been to appeal for patriotism. “If you love France, you must serve the country,” Mr Hollande said in a radio interview on Friday.

His government has raised the possibility – as did Nicolas Sarkozy, his centre-right predecessor – of taxing French citizens abroad, as does the US. Mr Hollande wants greater tax harmony among EU members to reduce “tax dumping”.

This idea drew short shrift from Didier Reynders, the Belgian foreign minister. “To be blunt, imposing a 75 per cent marginal tax rate does not have much democratic support outside France,” he told Le Figaro newspaper.

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