{"id":9989,"date":"2025-12-15T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/billionaire-tax-wont-stop-innovation-in-eu-insists-economist-zucman-politico\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:25:42","slug":"billionaire-tax-wont-stop-innovation-in-eu-insists-economist-zucman-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/billionaire-tax-wont-stop-innovation-in-eu-insists-economist-zucman-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire tax won\u2019t stop innovation in EU, insists economist Zucman \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Critics of the tax warned about the risk of scaring investors out of the EU and that tech entrepreneurs could leave the bloc as they would be forced to pay a tax\u00a0based on the market value of shares they own in their companies without necessarily having the liquidity to do so.<\/p>\n<p>But Zucman rejected &#8222;the notion that someone [&#8230;] would be discouraged to create a start-up, to innovate in AI because of the possibility that once that person is a billionaire, he or she will have to pay a tiny amount of tax.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Who can believe in that?&#8220; he scoffed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11\/INNOVATION.mp4\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The &#8222;Zucman tax&#8220; was one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/billionaire-tax-wont-stop-innovation-in-the-eu-zucman-says\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of the tax warned about the risk of scaring investors out of the EU and that tech entrepreneurs could leave the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technologie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}