Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, at the launch of the new 2022 income tax campaign, Thursday in Paris. Jean-Bernard Vernier/JBV News/ABACA
DECRYPTION – The government is looking for a tax gesture to restore the confidence of working French people.
He went up full of enthusiasm to the desk on Thursday at Bercy to launch the income tax declaration campaign. Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, seized on this rather austere reason to talk about the subject that has been driving him for months: the defense of the middle classes. Between a long-awaited tribute to the officers of the General Directorate of Finance – the “public service that enables all other public services” – and calendar points on the tax return, the young minister multiplied the references to “those who work and who sometimes doubt the use made of their taxes”.
Gabriel Attal took the opportunity to redo the history of all the tax measures taken since the first election of Emmanuel Macron, in the light of this attachment to the middle classes. “Between 2017 and 2022, there were 50 billion tax cuts, half of which for households”he recalled.
An electorate to win back
He pointed to specific measures, like permanently removing…
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