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Taxation and Start-ups Financing

  • French unemployment? Lack of companies, French treasury’s poor management
    22 August 2013, by Nathalie DROAL

    IRDEME suggests an explanation of French unemployment based on ten years of research and a hundred of studies, among which about twenty are available on this website. We are creating 200 000 fewer jobs per year than we should because we do not create "gazelles". The French Treasury, which knows nothing about how to launch a business, refuses to follow other countries’ example and is directly responsible for this disaster.
    French unemployment? Lack of start-up, French Treasury’s poor (...)

  • Bercy’s ignorance about our small business world
    1 July 2012, by Nathalie DROAL

    There are not enough gazelles in France because our Treasury and the organ establishing tax laws (the DLF) show deep ignorance about business creations.
    Bercy’s ignorance about our businesses world
    Is this because of the training of our senior civil service? It this because, though they graduate often from executive business schools, they have never worked in small companies? Their lack of knowledge about the French businesses world is enormous.
    Companies represent more than 75% of (...)

  • Is CDC Entreprises useful outside of the "com" for the State?
    8 April 2012, by Bernard Zimmern, Emmanuel Sala

    CDC Entreprise is the operating arm of Caisse des Dépôts,

  • Reagan’s reform of 1986, tax loopholes and entrepreneurship
    16 June 2011, by Rose Blackburry

    The impact of tax legislation on start-ups birth as well as the weight of tax loopholes is dramatically illustrated by the Reagan’s reforms of 1986.
    U.S. investors are no more risk takers than others and react rationally to changes in tax legislation.
    Investments in start-ups are extremely sensitive to tax incentives: as taxes have taken with time a larger share of expected gains, maintaining a sufficient rate of start-up creation requires the government to balance by reducing the (...)

  • Taxation and Start-ups Financing
    27 May 2011, by Bernard Zimmern

    The role of taxation in business creation is often considered minor, history, temperament, entrepreneurial, bureaucratic obstacles, labor law, etc. being judged more important. The story of President Reagan, on the contrary, shows that taxation is a key factor, as it was able to stop the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans, considered internationally as among the most enterprising. In 1986, the President erases all the loopholes (tax incentives), including those that encouraged to invest in (...)