France

The value added tax was invented by French economist Maurice Lauré in 1954. VAT is a consumption tax...

The gabelle, or French salt tax, was one of the most hated taxes in history. Instituted in 1341, the...

France introduced the Impot de Solidarite sur la Fortune, or wealth tax, in 1981 under President Mit...

The Ferme Generale was the tax farming system of pre Revolutionary France. Tax farmers, or fermiers,...