Thursday, March 23, the first day of national mobilization after the adoption of the pension reform, 21,500 people created their “retirement account”. Quarters, Agirc-Arrco points, etc. : this online tool, also available as a mobile application, compiles the rights accumulated by everyone since the beginning of their working life, allows […]
Taxation: are we going to correct the systems that disadvantage women?
This may be a detail for you… but it is undoubtedly the beginning of an awareness that something is wrong – or not – in our tax system. It is in fact the first time that a government has announced that it wants “mobilize the tax tool to promote professional […]
Suicide, a “voluntary” act not necessarily covered by insurance
Ihe insurance code (article L 132-7) states that “Insurance in the event of death must cover the risk of suicide from the second year of the contract”. If the insured commits suicide during the tenth year, the insurer must therefore pay? Alas, no: it all depends on the category of […]
Life insurance: should you open a contract after 70?
Question to an expert I turned 70, is it still advantageous at this age to pay money on life insurance and should it be done on a new contract? Payments made on life insurance before age 70 make it possible to transmit one’s assets with a favorable tax regime. On […]
Nicole Prieur, family therapist: “You have to dare to talk about money in the couple”
Nicole Prieur is a philosopher and family therapist, specialist in the question of money in couples and families. She published Family, money, lovewith Bernard Prieur (Albin Michel, 2016). Do women and men have the same relationship to money? Absolutely not. The relationship to money is excessively gendered. In the traditional […]
Financial investments: why are women still in the minority?
CHARLINE COLLETTE Money, male name (Latin: argentum). The definition in the Larousse dictionary couldn’t be truer: money remains a highly gendered subject. According to a study by the British online bank Starling Bank, 90% of articles talking about money to women explain how to save money and bargains during the […]
The Court of Cassation considers taxable a manual gift discovered during a tax audit
Fair a ‘ manual donation” consists of handing over certain goods: jewellery, paintings, furniture, money… Curiously, there is no obligation for the beneficiary, or “donee”, to “reveal” the donation, which is moreover in a certain delay, to the tax administration, while its taxation generates rights, and therefore revenue for the […]
Germany assumes full responsibility as an “immigration country” in the face of its employment needs
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the World Economic Summit in Davos in January 2023. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP “Our message is: those who want to roll up their sleeves are welcome in Germany! » This astonishing invitation from Chancellor Olaf Scholz, made before an audience of big bosses and decision-makers […]
“We too often think that the question of aging will be solved with money, but this calls for much broader answers”
The economist Hippolyte d’Albis, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), in July 2021. PHOTOPQR/LA PROVENCE/TOMASELLI ANTOINE/MAXPPP Director of research at the CNRS, professor at the Paris School of Economics and co-president of the Circle of economists, Hippolyte d’Albis is the author of the book Seniors and Employment (Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2022). […]
The aging of the population, a challenge that goes far beyond the problem of pensions
France is aging, and it is aging fast. Nothing surprising, really. At the end of the Second World War, the country experienced the strongest demographic surge in Europe. From 1946 to 1950, more than 850,000 children were born in France per year, the record being reached in 1949 with nearly […]