Two weeks after the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry suggested taxing the richest taxpayers to finance the ecological transition, a form of “green ISF” dismissed by the government, Pierre Moscovici ruled on Sunday that the debate had been ” too quickly” evacuated.
We must not bury this report, insisted the first president of the Court of Auditors on Radio J.
I’m not going to say that I agree with the tax proposal, it’s not my role, but I find that the debate is being dismissed too quickly, he regretted.
The Minister for the Ecological Transition Christophe Bchu initially said that the debate was not taboo. But the next day, the Minister of the Economy and N.2 of the government had closed the ban by saying that to finance the investments necessary for the ecological transition, taxes and debt were not good options.
We must have a debate on this question, we must not evacuate it out of hand, as his predecessor Bercy Pierre Moscovici commented on Sunday.
I am not advocating taxation, I say let’s have this debate completely and without taboohe added.
Words that echo those made by Laurent Berger. In an interview given Friday evening to the daily Le Figaro, the secretary general of the CFDT on departure lamented that the report is already in the drawers when it should be on the desks.
The government is locked in its dogma of not wanting to make the wealthiest contribute, it is a mistake, slashed the boss of the first French union.
Still on tax issues, Mr. Moscovici warned on Radio J against tax cuts not offset by equivalent revenue or a reduction in public spending of the same magnitude.
Today we no longer have the means for cuts in dry taxes, he estimated, while the government has announced its intention to reduce taxation on the middle classes up to two billion euros.
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