According to the Prime Minister’s entourage, “the rumours about taxation are pure speculation. The Prime Minister is analysing the budgetary situation and no option has been decided today.”
If the hypothesis of an upcoming tax increase is not new, it found a second life on Tuesday by stirring up the meeting of Macronist deputies, where Gérald Darmanin lit the fuse, according to The ParisianAccording to the resigning Interior Minister, Michel Barnier has raised the possibility of such an increase on several occasions – including in front of him – without, however, specifying his intentions.
A version corroborated by another recent interlocutor of the Prime Minister within the presidential camp, who confirms having heard Michel Barnier mention tax increases “on high incomes”. Enough to prompt Gabriel Attal, head of the group of Macronist deputies, to request a meeting with Michel Barnier which should be held this Wednesday morning, in order to obtain clarifications.
Hello everyone. The government is still not known, but the debates are already inflaming Michel Barnier’s fragile coalition. The latest source of division: the Matignon tenant startled some of his Macronist interlocutors by mentioning a tax increase, in the name of a stifling budgetary situation. If this idea were to come to fruition, Michel Barnier could also deprive himself of support in his own LR political family.