In France, the process of increasing access to banking services has been at work for some forty years and has made banking services an essential part of integrating individuals into society. Starting in the 1980s, the increased use of cheques and bank transfers for payments of wages and social secur...
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Created in France in 1791, inheritance tax imposes a charge on the net inheritance received by each heir, depending on their relationship to the deceased. Misunderstood and unpopular with the French, inheritance tax is viewed favourably by economic theory because of its redistributive function. It h...
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La Poste group, France’s second-largest public sector employer with over 250,000 employees, operates across a variety of fields (banking, postal services, parcels delivery, mobile telephony, etc.), including through subsidiaries in France and abroad. La Poste delivers a public service throughout the...
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Eight years after publishing a report entitled “Household Wealth” (2009), the Council of Mandatory Contributions focused its research in 2017 on the taxation of household capital. This study focuses on all taxes and social contributions levied on holdings, financial income and the transfer of elemen...
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While the financial position of the local public sector deteriorated in 2020 due to the health crisis and its economic and social consequences, several factors helped limit the extent of this deterioration. At the end of 2020, the overall situation of local government finances was similar to that of...
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In France, the national police and gendarmerie jointly carry out public safety and law enforcement duties. Since the gendarmerie became part of the Ministry of the Interior in 2009, they have been under the same political authority. The internal security forces employ 253,000 police officers and gen...
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The Chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee has requested, pursuant to Article 58-2 of the by-law relating to finance acts of 1 August 2001, that the Court carry out an investigation into the Fund for the Development of the Voluntary Sector for its operational and innovation component, known as t...
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To improve the provision of information to Parliament, since 2019 the Court of Accounts has presented its annual report on local government finances in two stages. In the first part, published in July 2022, the Court analysed the situation of local governments as at 31 December 2021, after a year ma...
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Defined by international law, the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of French Polynesia represents an area of more than 4.5 million km², around 118 islands divided into five archipelagos, where about 280,000 inhabitants live. For 25 years, the French State and the French Polynesia community have sought ...
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The State has long entrusted organisations outside its administration with the performance of public service tasks. This extension of the public action by specialised bodies has developed in many sectors because of the expected benefits of greater autonomy and management flexibility in the implement...
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