Maurice Lauré
Maurice Lauré was a high-civil servant French born in 1917. Deceased the April 20th 2001, he was a fiscalist known for the creation of the Taxe on the added-value in 1954.
Engineer of postal and telecommunications authorities, it enters to the Tax inspectorate after the Second world war. In 1952, it is named assistant editor of the Head office of the taxes which it had contributed to create.
In 1954, it invents an indirect tax on consumption, the Taxe on the added-value (VAT). Its idea is quickly adopted because he proposes to raise it progressively production process, and not near the salesmen, too many to be effectively supervised by the tax department.
Its career continues in the private sector as manager of undertakings: the bank General society, the stores New Galleries.
It is at the origin of the idea of the Taxe Lauré taken again by some altermondialists.
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