Depardieu May Have Decided To Divorce French Taxes
This is a picture of the door of Depardieu's house on the rue du Cherche-Midi in Paris, just down the block from his restaurant.
(Our friend Pierre, who is in his 70s and once drove a tank in the Algerian war, pointed out the house to me as Depardieu's, and I happened to like the door, so I took a picture.) 
The French president, like the idiots in Los Angeles, forgot how easy it is to get around his attempt to grab more of rich people's money.
As I blogged recently, here in LA, the building industry will get around the new half-cent LA sales tax by no longer patronizing building supply places in Los Angeles and instead patronizing those in Pasadena, and the adult film industry, now stuck with condom inspectors by the idiot voters, will find more amenable, less meddly terms to do business in nearby Vegas.
About Depardieu, Vicky Buffery writes at Reuters:
Actor Gerard Depardieu has become the latest Frenchman to look for shelter outside his native country after a series of tax hikes by Socialist President Francois Hollande on the wealthy.The "Cyrano de Bergerac" star has bought a house in the Belgian village of Nechin near the French border, local mayor Daniel Senesael told French media on Sunday, adding he had also enquired about procedures for acquiring Belgian residency.
Senesael said Depardieu would join some 2,800 French living in the same area a few minutes drive from the border, including the Mulliez family, owners of French hypermarket chain Auchan and Decathlon sports stores, who have lived there for years.
Belgian residents do not pay wealth tax, which in France is now slapped on individuals with assets over 1.3 million euros, nor do they pay capital gains tax on the sale of shares.
It's a mobile society, people -- filled with trains, planes, and automobiles. And Skype. (I haven't seen the woman who edits for me part-time in probably a year and a half, because she moved to Santa Barbara and then elsewhere, and we use Skype voice all day on days we work, sending documents back and forth over Skype as well.)
In an age when you don't need to get around by mule cart, legislation to steal one's earnings can be pretty easily avoided.
Brief note outside Depardieu's restaurant:
(Cave means basement or wine cellar, in this case. I highly doubt his basement is anything like the one at my parents' house, and in terms of their "wine cellar," there's probably an open bottle of Manischewitz in their refrigerator.)
Damn! When I saw this I hoped we were getting him. Allez, Gérard, t'aimes pas le ski?
NicoleK at December 10, 2012 8:44 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/12/depardieu-may-h.html#comment-3510376">comment from NicoleKHah, love your ski message.
Amy Alkon
at December 10, 2012 8:49 AM
Belgium, eh. I'm surprised he doesn't have his official residence set up in tax-free Monaco, like most European celebrities do.
Cousin Dave at December 10, 2012 9:40 AM
Hey - Happy Hanukah.
Ben David at December 10, 2012 10:59 AM
Poilane!
JD at December 10, 2012 5:21 PM
From a favorite comedic Jewess on the internet.
See also.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at December 10, 2012 5:40 PM
See also, see also.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at December 10, 2012 5:42 PM
But of course there is no reason that Americans are renouncing citizenship at record levels?
Jim P. at December 10, 2012 6:45 PM
Monaco's further from Paris.
NicoleK at December 11, 2012 1:57 AM
Depardieu, Depardon't, juste vous faire une idée déjà!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 12, 2012 2:17 PM
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