Gabriel Attal assured Wednesday that the government would “never” increase the taxation of “working French people” or “the fruit of their savings”, during the first session of parliamentary questions intended exclusively for the Prime Minister in the National Assembly.
Recalling the creation of a working group of parliamentarians from the presidential camp to reflect on the taxation of annuities, the head of government affirmed that it was not a question of targeting, as I can read here and there, the Livret A or the savings of the French.
This mission, announced Tuesday by Mr. Attal, must make proposals by June to reduce the deficit, while the opportunity to increase taxes divides the presidential camp.
These proposals will be made in the same logic as the contribution on the infra-marginal income of energy companies and oil companies or the taxation of undue profits, which the majority has assumed to put in place on the income of the large medical biology laboratories which during the Covid crisis made 7 billion (euros) in turnover thanks to the Covid tests paid by Social Security, underlined Mr. Attal.
The real difference between us and the oppositions in this Chamber is that we will never attack the French who work, the fruit of their savings, the French who have worked all their lives, it is the real difference between you and us, he insisted.
The Prime Minister reiterated on Tuesday that the government still planned to bring the deficit below 3% of GDP in 2027, despite its unprecedented drop in 2023 to 5.5%, which could lead to a possible downgrade of the country’s debt rating.
The government must give next week the trajectory which will make it possible to reach 3% in 2027 and at the end of June, like every year, we will say how we get there, with the revenues, and therefore the conclusions of this mission, but also with spending, and in particular structuring and intelligent economies, he specified.