2024-09-18 06:22:00
Several of the Prime Minister’s interlocutors have said that he did not rule the increase in taxes on higher incomes and companies. Enough to tense up the arms of the political class.
The intervention has been taking shape for a few hours. Two weeks after being appointed to Matignon, Michel Barnier is revising the 2025 budget. While it has been slow to come, the Prime Minister, who has not communicated his general policy to the Assembly, is looking for savings. or additional revenue. Among the methods studied, the increase in taxes discussed with many interlocutors.
This option was reiterated by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on Tuesday morning during a meeting of the group Ensemble pour la République (EPR). And it will be justified, according to reports, by the corruption of public finances. Enough to stop the Macronist representatives, sorry not to have more details on this scenario and the economic policy that Michel Barnier decided to pursue.
A few hours later, EPR delegation leader Gabriel Attal hit the nail on the head. By demanding, we send a message to your people, we make information about them “political line” of his successor, both “Possible Taxes” call on “Great Government Balances”. “We still don’t have a clear vision”he said, he explained that he had requested a new meeting with the Prime Minister “to decide on (their) participation in government”. The two men will finally see each other on Wednesday morning.
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An increase in corporate income tax?
If the tenant Matignon “don’t stop yourself”, as those close to you, “to live in the direction of greater justice”as he suggested in his first television interview on TF1, Michel Barnier has not discussed the principles of these reforms. As a former government adviser, he will weigh in on corporate taxes. Others talk about increased tax pressure on the wealthiest. Way of taking the opposite view of the recommendations of Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of Economy who resigned, who pleaded for “don’t come back” on taxes in his farewell speech at Bercy.
The Prime Minister insists that these rumors are “Sacred Thinking”and that“No option is decided today”they put a part of the political party in chaos. Especially the right, which, in favor of a reduction in spending, has increased taxes to a red line. On X, LR deputy for Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti attacked Michel Barnier who “turned into the rightful heir of macronism” having “makes France the highest-tax country in the OECD”. Meaning that will, according to you, “combined with intransigent opposition and determination”.
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Its new friend since the legislative elections, National Rally, is blowing hot and cold. “France is the financial power in the world, so at some point, it has to stop,” Thunder MP Julien Odoul on BFMTV, according to whom “Tax increases are a red line”. His colleague Jean-Philippe Tanguy, champion of the social line in line with the hopes of his voters in the Somme, is more nuanced.
“If it is the measure of tax justice, that we pay more tax in the most profitable and the most profitable of multinationals in exchange for a reduction in the tax burden on the middle and activities, then Mr Barnier will have our support”he argued on BFMTV. Conversely, if the increase is not offset by a decrease in favor of the most moderate, the workers have voted for the country “will take the necessary measures, according to the announcements made.” Opening the way to censorship by the Barnier government.
Apart from the communist Fabien Roussel, who accused the authorities of “Take the bags of France”the left is better than the wise. It must be said that his mind is elsewhere after the President of the Finance Commission Éric Coquerel, trusted by the deputy Liot Charles de Courson, did not accept this Tuesday in Matignon “dog letters”, which adjust the credits for each ministry within the framework of the 2025 budget L’Insoumis has already promised that he will move them on Thursday in Bercy.
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