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Slideshow France slaps 7 billion euros in taxes on rich, big firms Tweet Share this Email Print Related News UPDATE 2-France slashes growth outlook, readies budget cuts Tue, Jul 3 2012 France cuts growth forecasts, prepares for cuts Tue, Jul 3 2012 France faces tougher cuts despite Hollande promises Mon, Jul 2 2012 France lowers 2012 growth forecast ahead of budget revision Mon, Jul 2 2012 EU summit success to help Hollande pass fiscal pact Fri, Jun 29 2012 Analysis & Opinion France arrives early to austerity rendezvous Essential reading: Romney campaign and GOP at odds on healthcare tax, and more Related Topics World » France » By Daniel Flynn PARIS | Wed Jul 4, 2012 10:55am EDT PARIS (Reuters) - France's new Socialist government announced tax rises worth 7.2 billions euros on Wednesday, including heavy one-off levies on wealthy households and big corporations, to plug a revenue shortfall this year caused by feeble economic growth. In its first major raft of economic measures since Francois Hollande was elected president in May promising to avoid the painful austerity seen elsewhere in Europe, the government targeted companies and the rich with tax hikes. An extraordinary levy of 2.3 billion euros ($2.90 billion) on wealthy households and 1.1 billion euros in one-off taxes on large banks and energy firms were central parts of an amended 2012 budget presented to parliament. The law, which also includes increases in taxes on stock options and dividends and the scrapping of tax exemptions on overtime, should easily win parliamentary approval before a July 31 deadline, given the Socialists' comfortable majority. Hollande says the rich must pay their share as France battles to cut its public deficit from 5.2 percent of GDP last year to an EU limit of 3 percent in 2013 despite a stagnant economy and rising debt. "We are in an extremely difficult economic and financial situation," Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told a news conference. "In 2012 and 2013, the effort will be particularly large. The wealthiest households and big companies will have to contribute." The budget followed a grim assessment of public finances on Monday by the state auditor, which warned that 6-10 billion euros of deficit cuts were needed in 2012 and a hefty 33 billion in 2013 for France to avoid a surge in public debt dragging it into the centre of the euro crisis. One of the highest state spending levels in the world has raised France's debt by 800 billion euros in the last 10 years to 1.8 trillion - equivalent to roughly 90 percent of GDP, the level at which economists say it starts to harm economic growth. Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac said that, while the initial focus this year was on tax rises for the wealthy, the government would progressively rein in spending from 2013 onwards. "Cutting spending is like slowing down a supertanker: it takes time," he told Reuters. Having promised to freeze central government spending without cutting staffing levels, Hollande faces the difficult task of convincing France's powerful public sector unions to accept a cap on pay rises and promotions. This is likely to figure on the agenda of a "social conference" next week with unions and employers. "I think the unions accept this idea of rigor," Civil Service Minister Marylise Lebranchu told RTL radio, insisting that upcoming measures would not amount to draconian austerity. "SARKOZY MORE BUSINESS FRIENDLY" The Socialists accused the previous government of President Nicolas Sarkozy of deliberately overestimating economic growth and tax revenues by several billion euros ahead of presidential elections in April and May. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Tuesday slashed this year's official GDP growth forecast to 0.3 percent from a previous estimate of 0.7 percent, and to 1.2 percent in 2013 from 1.75 percent previously. The amended budget eliminated a number of measures taken by Sarkozy's government, such as a tax exemption on overtime for companies with more than 20 employees. Scrapping that measure should raise 980 million euros this year. Repealing a law which shifted labor charges onto a rise in VAT sales tax will also have a net positive effect of 800 million euros, and a doubling of a tax on financial transactions to 0.2 percent will bring in 170 million euros. "There's a sharp break, politically and to a lesser extent economically, with Mr Sarkozy's more business-friendly fiscal policies," said Nicholas Spiro of Spiro Sovereign Strategy. "As long as there's no pressure on France's bond market, the government is unlikely to pursue the kind of product and labor market reforms which France requires." France's 10 year bond yield was 2.5 percent on Wednesday, less than half the 6.4 percent yield on Spanish bonds. The Medef employers union has already said that measures such as a new 3 percent tax to be paid by companies on dividends distributed to shareholders would strangle already weak profit margins. The Socialists say this levy is aimed at encouraging firms to use their cash flow for capital investment. Some 300,000 people are likely to be affected by the one-off rise in wealth tax on households with net worth of more than 1.3 million euros, which rolls back a tax shield on the rich introduced by Sarkozy, officials said. 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