[lbo-talk] Christine Lagarde doesn't pay taxes

[brandelune at gmail.com]

What's more important is that Greece's problem has much less to do with unpaid taxes than with debt and its service, as Jacques Sapir writes in this Marianne2 article:

http://www.marianne2.fr/Grece-pourquoi-Christine-Lagarde-a-tout-faux_a219106.html

"Why is Lagarde totally wrong?"

On May 29, 2012, at 11:12 PM, James Leveque wrote:


> http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/29/christine-lagarde-pays-no-tax
> 
> "Christine Lagarde, the IMF boss who caused international outrage
> after she suggested in an interview with the Guardian on Friday that
> beleaguered Greeks might do well to pay their taxes, pays no taxes, it
> has emerged. As an official of an international institution, her
> salary of $467,940 (£298,675) a year plus $83,760 additional allowance
> a year is not subject to any taxes."
> 
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JC