Down comes tax
A STEP towards modernity, but also towards electoral victory: that sums up the FFr50 billion ($7 billion) in tax cuts for 2001 (in all, a planned FFr120 billion over three years) that France's finance minister, Laurent Fabius, unveiled on August 31st. They include:
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