- Are French economies threatened by the Covid-19 epidemic?
- This is what several viral Facebook posts claim, relaying an extract from BFMTV. According to them, savings will be taxed at 10%, on the recommendation of the International Monetary Fund.
- No such measure is planned in France, as confirmed by the Ministry of the Economy. The IMF proposal dates from 2013.
Loss of GDP points, business revenues at half mast ... The impact of the coronavirus epidemic is far from being solely health. And French bank accounts could well pay the cost of the country's necessary economic recovery, according to two Facebook posts with more than 16,000 cumulative shares, which simply state: "You must consume, otherwise we will take 10% of your saving !! "," Without pressure ... you are warned, you will have to spend as much as possible and if you do not want a direct tax on your account ".
As a source, the publications are based on a video extract from a sequence broadcast on BFMTV broadcast on Wednesday May 13, entitled "Should we make the rich pay?" During her speech, the journalist from the chain specializing in economics explains: "In France, it is really consumption that boosts this economic growth and the objective, indeed, is quite simply to encourage the French to use. They haven't done it for two months, they have the means to do it, they just need to have confidence, that they are not ant, that they do not keep this savings. "
" And besides the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday proposed to levy a 10% savings over the world to adequately fund the economic recovery. It simply means that the more savings you have the more you will be drawn to help finance the recovery, ”she concluded.
If it was a question of a simple "proposal" from the International Monetary Fund, the words heard on the antenna of BFMTV were obviously taken for cash by some Internet users. Wrongly, as confirmed by the Ministry of Economy at 20 Minutes : “There is no question of taxing the savings of the French. "
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At the end of April, a similar rumor had circulated on social networks, suggesting that Bercy was studying "the possibility of drawing 10% from accounts of less than 100,000 euros for all French people and 15% from accounts greater than 100,000 euros". The Ministry of the Economy then denied this to our colleagues at LCI: “This is fake news. We are not stimulating the economy by raising taxes. Bruno Le Maire was very clear on this point. "
Where does this IMF proposal raised on the BFMTV antenna come from? Contacted, neither the IMF nor the journalist involved in this extract had responded to our requests before the article was published. However, this proposal had already been raised on the antenna of the continuous news channel a few days ago by the editorialist Emmanuel Lechypre, who told France Info to rely on a report from 2013. The IMF has further confirmed to our colleagues that he had made no such suggestion to deal with the coronavirus crisis.
In 2013, on the other hand, a few years after the 2008 financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund had therefore evoked such a shock idea which the press had echoed, like the Parisian in an article entitled "The IMF advocates a 10% super tax on savings. ” "Of course, no injunction. This is just a suggestion to reduce the weight of public debt, which represents on average 110% of GDP in Europe, the United States and Japan, "said the daily, the tracks of the IMF having no value. binding.
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