Word of the day: reassure. Bruno Le Maire “wants to reassure” this Thursday “all those who have supported for more than six years” the economic doctrine of President Emmanuel Macron. During a back-to-school speech, in Alex, in Haute-Savoie, the Minister of the Economy explained his intention to maintain his business-friendly policy. “You can count on us, we will not deviate an inch from the only economic policy that has given the best results that France has known for forty years: the policy of supply. »
This seduction operation does not come from nowhere. Indeed, some bosses fear a change in doctrine following the spreading over four years of the abolition of a production tax, the Contribution on the added value of companies (CVAE), which Bruno Le Maire confirmed.
“At the end of 2027, the CVAE will be definitively abolished”
This tax, which weighs particularly heavily on industrial companies, has been halved this year and was to be abolished in 2024, but the government has chosen to spread out its abolition, at a cost reduced to one billion euros per year for finances. public.
“At the end of 2027, the CVAE will be definitively abolished”, however assured the minister in front of an audience made up in part of local industrialists. Anxious to better protect patents and intellectual property, Bruno Le Maire announced that he wanted to strengthen the control of foreign investments, by extending it “to the activities of extraction and transformation of critical raw materials”, recalling that China has made even.
“These sectors have become decisive for the sovereignty of the country”, he indicated, adding that the control, automatic when a non-European investor buys 10% or more of the capital of a firm, would be extended to the acquisition of stakes in “French branches of foreign companies”.
Continue to reform unemployment insurance
For entrepreneurs, the Minister also said he wanted to “continue to simplify” and to do this bring together “a foundation for simplification in the next three months”. He also said he wanted to work “for the rapid development of employee share ownership”.
Bruno Le Maire finally insisted on the need to “continue the reform of unemployment insurance” and to widen the difference between income from work and benefits, with the aim of reducing the unemployment rate from 7% to 5%. %. “Work will remain the cardinal value of our economic policy”, he hammered, castigating “all the fads of returning to retirement at 60 and working less have led to our collective impoverishment”.