This is the question that the deputies have tirelessly asked the two ministers of Bercy, Bruno Le Maire and Gabriel Attal, during the debates in recent days: what will be left of these fifty-five hours spent discussing the bill finance for 2023 in the Hemicycle?
The executive having, as expected, had recourse to article 49.3 of the finance law to have its text adopted, it had the freedom to retain or not the 244 amendments adopted at this stage by the National Assembly, or even to add more. ” The text that I am presenting today is not the copy of the project that was initially submitted to you, assured the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, Wednesday, October 19, before the elected officials. It has been enriched, supplemented, amended – corrected, even – following the debates of recent days, in committee and in the Hemicycle. »
In the end, the government retained around a hundred amendments in the final version of the first part of its budget, but these mainly came from the majority and the executive, so that, despite the hours of discussions in Palais Bourbon, the oppositions did little to change the initial text. The main measures presented by the executive last month are intact: indexation to inflation of the income tax scale (6 billion euros), abolition in two years of a business tax, the CVAE (twice 4 billion euros). The extension of the tariff shield for households on energy prices (45 billion euros) appears in the second part of the text, the examination of which starts next week.
A heavier bill of around 700 million euros
As expected, the text also includes the two government amendments declining the European proposals for the taxation of energy companies: the establishment of a contribution on companies in the oil, coal, refining and gas sectors, which should bring in some hundreds of millions of euros; and the revenue cap mechanism for electricity producers, which should bring in 5 to 7 billion euros.
The debates having focused only on the first four articles of the text, some of the amendments retained by Matignon were not examined in session. In total, the changes increase the bill by around 700 million euros for public finances, it is estimated at Bercy. In the sorting work carried out this week, the Ministry of Finance explains that it has ensured that public spending does not slip in order to meet its public deficit target set at 5% of gross domestic product next year, as well as at a form of fiscal stability.
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