Gabriel Attal assured Thursday on BFMTV that Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to a tax cut of two billion euros for households “will be kept”, but conditional on an equivalent saving measure, while the executive aligns savings measures in the face of a deterioration in the budgetary situation.
We can keep the commitment by financing it. This means by putting, in front of the two billion, for example, a sharp economy that we are making to be able to make this reduction. But it is a commitment from the President of the Republic, it will be kept, specified the Prime Minister.
On January 16, Emmanuel Macron declared that this tax cut, planned since 2023, would be implemented in 2025.
We have also started work on reducing employer contributions and employee contributions, because we want working French people, particularly the middle classes, to be able to earn more. He can also join this site, added Gabriel Attal on Thursday.
The head of government, however, did not wish to detail the second package of 10 billion savings that the executive intends to find from 2024. In total, he plans to make 20 billion savings this year and at least as much next year.
Like every year, when is the budget for the following year defined? Between June and September. (…) So it is in this calendar that we will make our choices, explained Gabriel Attal.
I’m not going to tell you that we’re going to start increasing taxes after having lowered them. This is not our logic at all. This is not what we will do, insisted the Prime Minister.