On the footsteps of Gerard Depardieu. Former tennis player Ilie Nastase wants to leave to Russia to escape the huge taxes in Romania
Baku, January 10 (AZERTAC). Former tennis player Ilie Nastase wants to leave to Russia because of the high taxes in Romania. “What are we being taxed for so high? For the salaries of MPs and MEPs? I do not want to pay anymore, I`ll move to Russia after Depardieu” Ilie Nastase stated.
According to a survey, Romanians are being charged the highest stated taxes in the entire UE.
The state also charges a third of the salary for taxes and contributions. French actor Gerard Depardieu was granted Russian citizenship and abandoned the French after having caused a major a scandal because the fees and taxes in his country are almost double then in Russia.
Gerard Depardieu has admitted he is “pleased” to have been granted Russian citizenship after Vladimir Putin said he been given a passport.
The text of the decree on the Kremlin website said: “The application for Russian citizenship by Gerard Xavier Depardieu, born in France in 1948, is granted under Article 89, item “a” of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.”
The actor has bought a property in a village of tax exiles in Belgium and told French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that he would give up his French passport.
Depardieu, who was France`s best-paid actor in 2008, was pilloried by the French media for announcing his move to Nechin, a village in southern Belgium, 1 kilometre from the French town of Roubaix.
Nechin has many rich French residents who prefer Belgium`s lower income taxes.
He originally claimed he “wanted to leave Paris, the city, its sometimes noisy aspects and find a little quiet, peace and serenity.” He has said that he paid 145 million euros (187 million dollars) in taxes over 45 years.
Putin had said in December that if Depardieu “wants to have a residence permit or the Russian passport, than the issue is as good as settled.”
Russia has a 13-per-cent income tax rate, while France`s Socialist government is pushing for a new supertax of 75 per cent.
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