The reduction in income tax touted by Gabriel Attal will create frustrations

In the written press, on television… For several weeks, the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, has not ceased to praise a “decrease” income tax (IR) of no less than 6.2 billion euros next year. Certainly, by acting in this way, the young tenant of Bercy wants once again to show that the executive protects the purchasing power of the French against the explosion of prices, and this with billions of euros. But by playing too much with words, it also risks arousing great frustration among part of the population in a highly flammable context.

Provided for in the 2023 draft budget, this measure is not, in reality, a new tax gift from the government to taxpayers but a well-established practice since 1969. With the exception of 2012 and 2013, successive executives have always decided, each year, to index the brackets of the income tax scale to inflation. The Borne government is therefore no exception to the rule. And, no offense…