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Questioned on TF1, the Prime Minister recalled Emmanuel Macron’s commitment not to increase taxes, without mentioning the reductions that had been promised.
Where to find new money? After the publication by INSEE of the amount of the French deficit at 5.5% of GDP, beyond expectations, the government must think of ways to increase its revenues. Logically, raising taxes would be an obvious solution.
“We have always said we would not raise taxes”, recalled the head of government on the TF1 set this Wednesday March 27, without completely rejecting an increase in levies. Gabriel Attal, however, detailed “two red lines.” : “not to increase taxes on the middle classes, on working French people or on French people who have worked all their lives and who always earn a little too much to have help but never enough to be able to get by adequately on their own”nor those “for what allows us to finance the work of the French”.
The presidential promise to reduce taxes on the middle classes by 2 billion was not addressed by the Prime Minister. The day before, his Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, had nevertheless reinforced this commitment, despite the bad news piling up on the public accounts front. “I think it is important to maintain our economic policy strategy, he argued, I would not like people to forget that public finances serve an economic policy objective.”
“No dogma” on superprofits
“France is not a tax haven for anyone”then declared the Prime Minister, when asked about an increase in taxes for the wealthiest households. “10% of French people pay 70% of income tax”he added.
Questioned about a tax on superprofits, Gabriel Attal was less categorical. “I never had any dogma on the subject,” he declared in particular before recalling that energy companies and biology laboratories had already been subject to a specific tax.