Linguistic tax
The linguistic tax is a compensatory idea of Taxe suggested to compensate for the economic advantage of the countries with a spread language, which they receive thanks to the teaching of their language in the foreigner, and while saving on the proper expenses of teaching.
The Assiette of such a tax could be the number of pupils who learn the language in question.
Currently, such a tax does not exist. He was proposed by economist S like François Grin and Philippe Van Parijs. By comparing the France and the the United Kingdom, Grin calculated for the last an annual advantage of approximately six billion Euro S because of the hegemonic position of its language. Roger Bowers, vice-director of the British Council, declared that “the true gold of Great Britain is not the oil of the North Sea but the English language”
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