From our correspondent in London

Rupert Murdoch and his son James are roundly scolded by a British parliamentary committee responsible for a report on the scandal of the late plays of the tabloid News of the World. Rupert Murdoch "is not fit to lead a large international group," concludes the report, released Tuesday. The board deems "surprising" the allegations of Murdoch, father and son under which they would not have been in practice courtant espionage on a large scale in force in their newspapers. "Rupert Murdoch closed his eyes and demonstrated a willful blindness to what was happening in their societies and publications," the whips 121-page report, the culmination of nine months of hearings. MEPs also say that the News of the World and its publisher News International deliberately "misled the committee about the true nature and extent of the investigations they claimed to have carried on wiretapping."

Several leaders of the media group, are also the subject of harsh criticism. His ex-CEO Les Hinton is considered an "accomplice" of concealment of practices in the home. The parliamentary committee has, however, divided on the report's findings, adopted by six votes against four. Conservative members refused to accept the judgment against Rupert Murdoch's ability to manage. Labour MP Tom Watson, spearheading the investigation, has firmly told the opposite: "News International has conducted a cover-up scale of its illegal actions. Its top leaders have lied to parliament repeatedly. And the two men at the head, Rupert and James Murdoch, should now respond to these facts. They have corrupted our country to shame our police and our parliament. They lied, cheated, practiced blackmail and intimidation. "

David Cameron called

The report leaves the House of Commons to decide on possible sanctions, which could involve the convening of Rupert Murdoch for a public apology. It is an embarrassment media mogul facing some of its shareholders, especially Americans, tired of the damage inflicted by News Corp. in this case. The report could also weigh negatively in the review by Ofcom, the regulator of the British media, the legitimacy of the group to manage the BSkyB satellite TV bouquet, whose license could be withdrawn.

Finally, the parliamentary report increases the pressure on David Cameron, who was summoned Monday to the House of Commons where he justified his support for his culture minister Jeremy Hunt challenged for its proximity to the leaders of the Murdoch group in reviewing the file BSkyB. Tom Watson claimed that the Prime Minister and his predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the court submit to their email exchanges with the leaders of the Murdoch group.

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Johnny Hallyday is still found in the sights of the French tax authorities. According to Duck chained, the singer was notified of a recovery of 9 million euros, after a heavy investigation since late 2010. In January 2011, several searches took place at home and some of his relatives. Yesterday press service of Johnny Hallyday stated that he had "no comment". Interviewed this morning on RTL, the French rocker has refused to confirm that a tax adjustment it was notified in late 2001.  

When asked after the launch of its 2012 tour Tuesday night in Los Angeles, the singer said only: "I can confirm anything because it is you who teach me, I go out on stage, I is my music for me is what is most important. "

According to the weekly satirical, the IRS regrets the existence of "a complex network of companies operating in rather baroque", particularly for a Luxembourg company, Nerthus Invest SA, a shareholder is an entity based in Liberia.

The rocker is well again at the center of a tax case. He who had already seen straightening of some 100 million francs (15 million) in 1975. A sum which he performed fifteen years later. Johnny Hallyday, who has tried several ways to pay less tax in France, was eventually settled in Switzerland in 2007. This is the Swiss tax authorities that he pays taxes on his personal income. But his artistic and commercial activities performed in the Hexagon fall under French law.

This notification to the star falls ill. At 69, after his serious health problems, "the Taulier" was to make his comeback from the Orpheum Theater on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, before starting a huge tour in mid-May in France.

It could also be controversial, right in between the two rounds of presidential elections. Johnny Hallyday has also indicated today that he "meddles never openly political" believing that an artist does not have to decide, "he said in an interview with Republican Lorraine. Close to Jacques Chirac, Johnny Hallyday had taken position for Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 who married in 1996 with Laetitia.  

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3 Suisses must be patient. Three years after removing nearly 700 jobs a year and a half after the launch of a major modernization plan in 2013, the specialist mail order (VPC) is still not the end of his troubles.

In 2011, the turnover of the group 3 Suisses International (3SI) fell a further 5.6% and the accounts are still in the red. Of course, "this decline is partly explained by the market environment somewhat depressed for clothing," says German Otto vpciste which holds 51% stake (alongside the Family Association Mulliez 44%). But the European leader recognizes that the repositioning of 3SI in losses since 2005, is "a little slow."

Denis Terrien, founder and CEO of Amazon. Fr, arrived in June 2009 with orders for 3SI to instill the spirit internet business that made him still lacking. Born in 1932, the group had made back in 1998, however the entire catalog of its flagship brand online in 2007 and had proposed its first application to control from his mobile phone. But the organization was still oriented around the two "big book" seasonal, declined in line with their promotion system increasingly important.

The figures show that the mutation is far from over: according to our information, the three Swiss have a cumulative loss of 165 million euros since 2008, with another 15 million euros last year. For all consumer brands, the loss would amount to 110 million euros. "It is unlikely that the 3 Suisses reach equilibrium this year, as foreseen in the strategic plan. For this particular reason that Laurence Paganini had to give up CEO in late January to the leader of spoiler, "says a close case.

Delete homes losses

While its competitor La Redoute (Redcats) has already increased from 2 to 10 collections a year, a key element of the transformation, the catalogs remain offseason in three Swiss still largely a work in progress. This explains why the 3 Suisses realize only 66% of their online sales against 78% for La Redoute. The average is 50% for the ten consumer brands 3SI (3 Suisses, Blancheporte, Spoiler, Window Magic …), or 11 points less than the subsidiary of PPR. "The challenge of this evolution to the Internet is to keep its best customers, while attracting new, old, and their loyalty," said Olivier Trouvé, a consultant at Kurt Salmon instant credit reports.

Meanwhile, 3SI continues to suppress outbreaks of losses: the last of its 35 stores closed earlier this year. As the site buy / sell 2xMoinsCher, acquired in 2006. What about its subsidiary, resumed in spring 2010 for his younger clients file, it also pulled the curtain end of January.

The transformation should move faster once the redesign of systems of consumer brands finalized. Group 3 SI has indeed devoted nearly half of the envelope of € 70 million plan to modernize the "largest construction site computer currently in France," according 3SI. The links between trade marks may be tightened in order to promote cross-selling, as is done on the virtual shopping mall lechouchou.com, online since late January. "The IT component is the only site where the three Swiss were up," according to critics.

Become a service provider

3 Suisses are now trying two revolutions at once: to turn into e-trader and service provider for other Internet retailers. More than half of the investments are vested in the building at Hem, near Lille, the "largest database storage and order picking in France," according to 3 Suisses International (SI 3). The warehouse, built next to that of Mondial Relay, covers an area comparable to six football fields and will be operational in October.  

The building, where packages are trademarks of the group to mingle with other online retailers, is the missing of the SI strategy 3, which wants to open its various subsidiaries to external customers. Very optimistic, the group expects to double the number of clients, individuals and professionals to reach 20 million by 2020. At its shareholder Otto, the branch services increased 9% in 2011, exceeding one billion euros. Ikea and Oxylane make their photos in the studios of Quai de l'Image. Mondial Relay manages some 1,200 parcels of e-tailers, as the Relais Colis, a subsidiary of La Redoute.

"The picking is more strategic than other services. 3 Suisses may have difficulty recruiting. Especially since many experts have already invested the niche of Logistics, "said an e-merchant, reflecting the view of many respondents. Even private-sale, real reference in the sector, has decided to delegate the logistics of the Digital Factory, its service company for e-tailers.

The misfortune of one is the happiness of others! The soaring oil bill burden on household budgets Western made the fortune of the Gulf countries. The Institute of International Finance (IIF) evokes that an increase of over 19% in one year the amount of net foreign assets of the wealthy Gulf states this year. In 2012, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, and should show net foreign assets of 1900 billion against $ 1.6 trillion of assets held in late 2011. And the outbreak of the assets of these countries should increase to 2140 billion at the end of 2012, provides for the IIF, provided that oil prices and production levels remain unchanged.  

These Gulf countries should also make record oil revenues of 572 billion this year, against 538 billion in 2011, according to estimates by the financial organization. Their nominal GDP added totaled 1.4 trillion dollars last year, posting an annual increase of 31%. Their sum is expected to reach 1.5 trillion dollars at the end of this year, still provides the IIF.

The six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are indeed the prime beneficiaries of record oil prices since they own 40% of global oil reserves and 25% of those of natural gas. These oil-producing countries have spare capacity in oil production from 2.5 million to 3 million barrels per day (bpd), indicates the financial organization.

But these natural assets are not everything. The institute suggests the existence of risks detrimental to the growth of the Gulf and especially the impact Arab Spring or tensions over Iran. The institute plans to capitalize on a growth rate of the six countries of 4.9% this year and 4.2% in 2013 against 6.9% in 2011.

Not only the Bank of France there is no crisis but it has quite widely. As a firefighter service in the euro area, as part of the federal European Central Bank, of course, have stepped up its activities last year. So it is about to transfer 3.4 billion euros to the state, whose accounts need it most.

The governor of the Banque de France, Christian Noyer on Friday gave details on the occasion of presenting the results of the institution in 2011. 2.014 billion euros will be paid under the corporation tax, what to add 877 million as a dividend to the State, the sole shareholder. And best of all, it will receive 530 million euros that will correspond to the "emission cap" (sic). This expression, smelling the nineteenth century when paper money took off, means the value of franc banknotes that have not been translated into euros at February 18, 2012, the legal deadline for such an exchange in France.

Our central bank, and ultimately its shareholders, thus benefits from the negligence of the French and tourists who kept their tickets now franc convertible. They are forever lost to their owners, except for numismatists.

"More revenue but also more risk"

But its prosperity, it must above all the inconsistencies of the governments themselves unable to control their finances. The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has indeed brought under the leadership of the ECB to intervene in markets. "Our balance sheet has increased significantly" from 481 to 709,000,000,000 euros (+47%), Christian Noyer said. But these extraordinary interventions of securities purchases are made at rates of efficiency than conventional refinancing operations of the banks money. "We have more income but also higher risk, and therefore the need to build reserves." He says.

The Bank of France has decided to include an allocation of 2.065 billion euros in "fund for general banking risks and regulated provisions", which amounts to nearly 10 billion if we add reserves and capital itself. These provisions have cut gross profit of the Bank which in turn "has reached a historic high, at 5.650 billion euros, up 25% compared to 2010," according to the official.

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A decree and a decree signed by Xavier Bertrand were published in the Official Journal on Thursday, trying to implement a solution against excess fees the most excessive.

As expected, the Minister of Health proposes to anesthetists, surgeons and obstetricians in sector 2 (free prices) to limit their excess fees to 50% beyond the "tariff Safely." It also requires them to perform at least 30% of acts without overshoot. Nothing compulsory volunteers receive in exchange for partial support of their social contributions. In parallel, complementary health (mutual, private insurers, pension funds) are imposed the obligation to repay the overruns to keep certain tax advantages.

The device must be expanded in the coming days. Another decree to impose additional pay as overruns in other medical specialties. With one difference: the doctors involved will commit to not charge more than 20% above the tariff Safely, on acts alone techniques (imaging, minor surgery …). They can not in practice on clinical procedures and consultations.

Paradox: the device does not fully satisfied neither the doctors nor the supplemental insurers, not patients. While appreciating a "real breakthrough", the CSMF, the first organization of private practitioners, regrets that "practitioners of a sector is left out payday loans lenders." Even the tone of the union side, the Bloc, the majority among the surgical specialties. A sector physicians are those who do not have the right to introduce overshoot. They should stick to Safely rates. But Medicare itself recognizes that such rates, frozen for years because of funding, will not match the cost nor the time nor the level of expertise and legal risk of surgical procedures .

Mutuality French, meanwhile, feared windfall: many surgeons already practicing anesthetists or overruns "moderate". They could grow to the the 50% tariff beyond Social Security, and receive in addition to the lightening of their burdens. Conversely, in areas with a concentration of very large excesses (Paris, Lyon, Paca …), the Mutual fears that the track is "unattractive to practitioners" and therefore ineffective. For patients without supplemental coverage (less than 10% of the population), the problem will remain the same for them.

The solution is partial, imperfect, its success is not guaranteed. She still deserves to exist, after years of fruitless negotiations between doctors, health insurance and mutual agreements signed no tomorrow, and threats of intervention policies ever implemented.

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In the logic of "rights and duties" which is his, Nicolas Sarkozy promised Monday night to tax tax exiles. The Government has already established last year an exit tax, which taxes unrealized gains of the French going abroad. But the president-candidate wants to go further, proposing that any tax paid to the exiled French tax authorities the difference between the tax paid in their country of residence and that he would have paid in France.

First precision, only capital income – dividends, interest, capital gains – would be affected, if they exceed a certain threshold. With these conditions, expatriates escape, as desired by Nicolas Sarkozy, to higher taxation. Indeed, one part went to work abroad receives a salary, which does not fall within the scope of the measure, and some capital income too low to exceed the threshold. Conversely, the exiles are often more active and live their heritage.

The focus on capital income has another advantage, purely political: to distinguish themselves from the proposal made in 2010 by Jerome Cahuzac, president of the PS Finance Committee in the Assembly, to tax high incomes of French abroad, including labor income. At the time, Baroin, budget minister, had criticized the idea, speaking of "right of blood tax" contrary to the French system.

Compatibility with European law

In fact, our tax law, like all developed countries except the U.S., is built on territoriality, not nationality: French living in Germany a payroll tax beyond the Rhine, a German resident in France and acquitted in the Hexagon. "As a result, the measure proposed by Nicolas Sarkozy assumed to renegotiate our tax treaties with other countries. A complicated task, "says Nicolas Jacquot, partner at Arsene Taxand. In the campaign team, it was answered that it will suffice to review the agreements with the states most favored by the tax exiles. Such as Belgium, Luxembourg or Switzerland. "However, France will have to convince these countries to negotiate, which is nothing obvious," warns Marc Vaslin, partner at Scotto & Associates, a law firm based in Paris, Geneva and Brussels.

Another question: that of incompatibility with European law. European Commissioner Michel Barnier yesterday denied any obstacle. An opinion not shared by the Circle of the tax, which analyzes the candidates' proposals for Le Figaro throughout the campaign: "the measure can be considered an obstacle to freedom of movement and settlement," notes the one of its members, attorney Jean-Yves Mercier. In short, the practical implementation of the tax exiles looks daunting.

If these revenues were estimated at 500 million by Nicolas Sarkozy, some are more skeptical. "The very wealthy households keep their assets in holding companies and pay themselves the minimum income," says Jean-Yves Mercier. The number of exiles is itself unclear. Just do you know that 500 indebted to ISF leave the country every year and from 2000 to 2500 the French enjoy preferential treatment in Switzerland. To verify the application of the measure, the IRS will conduct examinations heavy and therefore costly. The measure will be symbolic in every sense of the term.

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By definition, a contract monosupport has only a single carrier, called the euro bottom. This support provides the capital and a minimum annual return of around 3 to 3.5% currently. The contract MPT, of more recent design, offers a choice between the euro and other background materials to invest in stocks or real estate for example. These supports can be expected to yield higher, up to 5-7%, but they pose a risk on capital.

Comparable tax systems now

Regarding the income tax, the two contract types are taxed identically. Only the earnings are taxable. The tax rate varies by age of the contract, but on average, tax accounts for 5-8% of withdrawals.

Namely: you can choose between two methods of taxation. To make the best choice depending on your situation, check with your insurance broker.

On social security contributions (13.5%), they are paid by the insurance company each year on the bottom euro, but upon withdrawal when taken on other media.

What a life insurance contract is it better to choose?

Social charges are made each year on the bottom multichannel euro investments. Also, there is no difference between a monosupport and a multichannel fully invested in euro bottom: same performance, even taxation. If you are looking for safety of principal above all, the best life insurance is a monosupport, and annual management fees are generally lower. The contract MPT is on his side more interesting if you want to change and take advantage of market opportunities. An insurance broker will assist you in your choice but you will also find life insurance or Multi monosupport that best matches your profile.

Can we move from one contract to another?

To transform into a multichannel monosupport, simply invest all the money on its bottom euro. Skip contract monosupport a multichannel is also possible, using the Fourgous amendment, which transforms the contract while retaining its original opening date. It thus benefits from the tax advantages of life insurance after eight years. The transition from one medium to another cause of the arbitration costs ranging from 0% to 1%.  

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The principle? These funds have a life fixed in advance and invest in corporate bonds they plan to keep the portfolio until the end, except in special cases (damage to the transmitter for example). Objective: To reap the coupon (interest) known from the start, they pay each year.

As a bonus, the capital is protected as the company that issued the refund obligation at maturity, at least if it has not failed.Even if the manager does not provide any formal guarantee or capital, or performance, the subscriber has a good idea of ​​what they can expect to run (he knows in advance the expected average coupon of the portfolio) if of course none of the companies whose shares have been selected not lacking instant payday loan.

Many management companies, Oddo, the French PM, Ofi AM, SPGP, EDRIM, Rothschild & Cie Gestion or Tikehau example, launched or will soon launch such funds. But sometimes very different approaches.

Edmond de Rothschild IM provides such a yield of about 5% per year for Millesima 2016. "Other funds exhibit higher returns, but with longer investment horizons.