President LR of the Senate Gérard Larcher called on Thursday to postpone for a year the abolition planned in the 2023 budget of the CVAE, a tax on companies, tackling “a problem of method” of the executive and ironically on the “real decentralization” announced Monday by Emmanuel Macron.
I say things perhaps with a certain vigor, but for a moment, when we don’t say things to each other, we don’t move forward, exclaimed the President of the Senate at the assizes of the departments of France, which stand until ‘ Friday Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), in front of an audience who rose to applaud him.
In his speech, the day after the start of the debate in the National Assembly on the 2023 budget, he proposed to delay for one year the application of one of the government’s flagship measures to strengthen France’s attractiveness for young people. companies, or the abolition over two years of the contribution on the added value of companies (CVAE), a production tax.
The methods of distribution of the revenue which would be transferred are, at the time that we examine the finance bill, still under study, he lamented, while the government assures that this deletions will be fully compensated. by VAT for the departments and the intermunicipalities.
I wish in a positive, posed, serene, quiet way, that we take the time, he explained. I wish that we take a year to find the replacement dynamics of the CVAE, he added.
This is the proposal that I made two weeks ago to the Head of State and the day after to the Prime Minister, said Mr. Larcher, to loud applause, while ensuring that I was not opposed to it. evolution of production taxes.
I remind you that we still have not found the dynamics of the replacement of the housing tax four years later…, he exclaimed.
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In an energetic speech, he tackled Emmanuel Macron who promised real decentralization on Monday with real transfers of responsibilities and funding during a trip to Mayenne.
Without wanting to be cruel, this is the third announcement: 2017, then 2019 and now 2022, quipped Mr. Larcher. I hope that this is finally the right announcement for our territory and for our country, he added, provoking the laughter of the participants in this annual congress of the Assembly of the departments of France (AdF), controlled by the opposition.
He also deplored the problem of method on the part of the government in its relations with the associations of elected officials, even if he welcomed the will of the Prime Minister (Elisabeth Borne) for a constant dialogue in the exchange, the respect and openness with communities.