While the debate in France on the taxation of very high incomes has not stopped, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that, as promised, grants the Russian citizenship to the well-known French actor Gerard Depardieu that he had requested… tax "asylum" in Moscow.

With a brief announcement from the Russian presidency on Thursday, it was announced that the Russian president signed the decision by which the actor gets Russian citizenship. The wording of the announcement, Reuters notes, implies that Depardieu had submitted a relevant request.

The Depardieu case has consistently returned to the debate over Hollande's plan to raise taxes on very high incomes.

Paris is now considering how to amend plans to tax the wealthiest citizens after they were struck down by the Constitutional Court, may not abandon the reference to its scale 75%, a government source said.

At 29 December the Constitutional Court ruled that the extraordinary taxation with 75% of incomes over one million euros is unfair for this year, undermining the main campaign slogan of President Francois Hollande.

Source : tovima.gr