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Raising the brackets of the income tax scale does not dispense with investing and reducing a bill that is still very high.
By Laurence Allard
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Lhe government boasts about it, but the 5.4% increase in income tax brackets, which determines the amount you will have to pay in 2023, barely compensates for inflation (6.2 % on an annual basis at the end of October). It only avoids having to pay more on an amount of income revalued by the price increase alone. This will benefit taxpayers whose income has not increased in 2022 and who, as a result, have lost purchasing power. The increase in the levels should also benefit those who had a small increase, lower than inflation. With the increase in the brackets of the scale, taxpayers pay marginally less on the highest bracket. The percentage gain can reach 21% for low incomes but, going up, the reduction…
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