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 Apparent problem in article 

There's an apparent problem with the math here.  Unfortunately I can't read French, so can't verify one of the numbers, but hopefully someone else can.

To quote from the article ""Wealth_tax"":

""...in no place where this kind of tax is in place does it contribute to more than 0.3% of the total tax intake ([1]).""

and

""France. In 2003 out of €786 billion ""general government"" receipts, €174 billion was collected on ""income and wealth"". No further breakout is disclosed. Data is from the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques.""

€174 billion out of €786 billion is 22% - however ""general government receipts"" might not (probably does not) mean the same as ""total tax intake"".  A clarification of the two would be useful."