VAT chocolate, dream of amendments and battle of acronyms: meeting the geeky Budget deputies

2023-10-17 09:32:19

When he arrived at the National Assembly thirty years ago, Charles de Courson offered to give evening courses on the State Budget to the other deputies. “I was surprised to see the questions asked by certain colleagues…” euphemizes the centrist elected official. Understand: tackling the Finance Bill (PLF), an essential annual exercise, is not easy. “Standardized scope, stabilizing deficit… Certain concepts require a certain amount of learning time,” continues the enarque, who previously officiated at the Court of Auditors. A dialect apart, some say. And each political group has its handful of elected specialists, its public finance geeks. The deputies are preparing to begin examining the PLF for 2024 in the hemicycle this Tuesday afternoon.