Bruno Le Maire evokes 2025 at the earliest

2023-09-05 21:20:00

This is one of the government’s commitments, which is currently slow to materialize. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire explained on Tuesday that the tax cuts for households promised in May by the President of La République, of the order of at least two billion euros, would take place “ if possible from the 2025 budget ».

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This tax relief, we will do it as soon as possible “said the tenant of Bercy in an interview with Figaro, while Emmanuel Macron had promised these reductions by 2027. After the abolition of the housing tax and a reduction in income tax, Emmanuel Macron committed last May to additional tax cuts to ” the middle classes ” with some ” income between 1,500 and 2,500 euros ».

Door open to 49.3 on the budget

For his part, Bruno Le Maire also confirmed that the government would present the public finance programming law (LPFP) in an extraordinary session, which authorizes recourse to 49.3, “ because the LPFP represents a major challenge for the country “. This law ” should allow us to return to a level of public debt of 108% in 2027 once morest more than 112% today and to go back below 3% of public deficit “, detailed the minister.

While praising the growth of France, Bruno Le Maire said to himself ” lucid regarding the fragility of our economic environment “, in particular because of the “ level of interest rates, which will remain high for a long time ” and of ” the economic situation of Germany, which is our main economic partner ».

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On the subject of food inflation, which is plunging Les Restos du Coeur into major financial difficulties, Bruno Le Maire promises the maintenance in 2024 of the 75% tax deduction for donations to food banks of up to 1,000 euros. This ceiling was raised in 2023 from 500 to 1,000 euros. ” If parliamentarians wish to enshrine it in the law in a permanent way, the Prime Minister and I are open to this subject. “, he suggested.

(with AFP)