France will find it “almost impossible” to hire top talent if the government goes ahead with plans to impose a 75 per cent marginal income tax rate, the head of L’Oréal, the world’s largest cosmetics company and one of France’s biggest companies by market value, has said.
Jean-Paul Agon, chairman and chief executive, told the Financial Times: “If there is such a new tax rule, it’s going to be very, very difficult to attract talent to work in France, almost impossible – at a certain level, of course.”
The Socialist government is expected tomorrow to unveil details of President François Hollande’s popular campaign pledge to tax earnings above €1m at 75 per cent, in what he has called a “symbolic” gesture to help fill a hole in the country’s budget deficit.