It is an intangible red line fixed by the macronists: to increase taxes to fill the coffers of the State, it is niet. The “whatever it takes” and the record deficits have not changed that. The guardian of the temple is called Bruno Le Maire. “Where is the French leeway? » he asked in September. Answer, clear: “Not on taxes, we are already taxing too much. »
The Minister of Economy and Finance does not lack relay. At the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron and his secretary general, Alexis Kohler, are exactly on the same line. “We have no room for manoeuvre, neither in terms of taxes nor in terms of public deficits”, affirmed the president at the start of the last school year. Hence the imperious need in his eyes for the reform of pensions or that of unemployment insurance.
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But cutting public spending may not be enough. And voices are emerging even within the majority to demand an essential increase in taxes. In the name of balanced budgets and fiscal justice.
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In a few months, the MoDem proposed a tax on superdividends, then an increase in the CSG on capital income. In vain. But the centrist party is not giving up, notably through the voice of its leader in the National Assembly, Jean-Paul Mattei:
“We must also make the capital contribute at a fair level. Bruno Le Maire has a lot of talent, but I have a disagreement with him on this point. »
The heart of macronie is also beginning to imitate it. Jean Pisani-Ferry, one of the architects of the program of the candidate En Marche! in 2017, don’t say anything else in the world “ from February 25: “The question of direct debits inevitably arises. » Like one of the oldest traveling companions of the Head of State:
“It would be political madness to continue to say that there will be no tax increases in the years to come. Otherwise, Macronism would no longer be pragmatism, but dogmatism. »
Because it is indeed the heart of macronism that is attacked by this dogma. This macronism which carries the value of work as a banner but “at the same time” supports the financing of its policy essentially – or even entirely – on work.
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Those who hoped for an inflection will however be at their expense. The announced reduction in inheritance tax? “She is not buried at alljust recalled Olivier Véran, the government spokesperson, on April 18 on France-Info. We have been lowering taxes since 2017, it’s our political DNA. »
