The date becomes clearer, a little. During his press conference on Tuesday evening, Emmanuel Macron announced that the tax cut of two billion euros planned for the middle classes would take place from 2025, indicating that “the government would return to the details of the measure”.
This additional tax cut has been envisaged since the spring of 2023, but its exact timing had evolved over the months, with a possibility that it would be postponed to the end of the five-year term, or “as soon as possible”.
The President of the Republic spoke at length in his introductory remarks about “all our compatriots who already earn too much to be helped and not enough to live well, popular France, the France of the middle classes, the one which says ‘when you propose something this is never for me.” And yet, it is the one that holds the country together,” he said.
Reward work effort
For him, “effort and merit are not sufficiently recognized, and if we have already done a lot to ensure that work pays better than inactivity, it is not enough, there is a France from the angle dead “.
He called for “ardent work to recognize this, to give more dynamism to careers, to make it possible to earn a better living through work with the adaptation of our tax and social systems, but also with negotiations in certain sectors so that the salary dynamic is consistent with the efforts.”
In passing, he confirmed that for civil servants, “the main criterion for advancement and remuneration must also be merit”, and a reform in this direction “in the coming weeks”. He also confirmed that there would be “normalization” in protection against inflation, after France “has protected a lot against inflation in recent years”.