With a deficit expected to exceed 6% of GDP in 2024, “the situation of our accounts today requires a targeted effort, limited in timea shared effort, in a demand for tax justice”insisted the head of government during his general policy declaration to the National Assembly this Tuesday.
“This sharing of effort will lead us to request participation in collective recovery from large and very large companies who make significant profits”developed Michel Barnier.
Elle “will also lead us to request a exceptional contribution to the most fortunate French people“, he continued.
A clear break with seven years of reduction in the tax burden on households and businesses, defended against all odds by Emmanuel Macron.
3,860 euros per month for a single person after taxes
To be considered rich, you must have a standard of living above 3,860 euros per month for a single person after taxes, according to estimates from the Observatory of Inequalities, which are based on 2021 INSEE data.
The amount increases to 5.790 euros for a couple and 9.650 euros for a household with two children over 14 years old.
Some 4.7 million French people are wealthy, or 7.4% of the population. Their number is down 1.5 points compared to 2011 but they are increasingly wealthy.
“The richest 1% captured 7.7% of all pre-tax income in the early 1980s. This share reaches 12.7% in 2022 according to the World Inequality Database,” specifies the observatory.
Diversity by department
Depending on the territory, the thresholds for achieving wealth differ. “The Paris region concentrates the departments where the richest 10% have the highest standard of living”recalls the Observatory of Inequalities.
Thus, in Paris, a single person belongs to the wealthiest 10% when they have a standard of living higher than 5,968 euros per month, after taxes.
In the Alpes-Maritimeswhich ranks ninth, this minimum threshold is from 3.643 euros. For the Wasit is located between 3,314 and 3,845 euros.
“These differences explain that for the same standard of living, we feel more or less rich depending on where we live, deciphers the organism. Because real estate prices vary from one place to another depending on the purchasing power of the local population, and also because we compare our income to those of the people we meet (neighbors, friends, etc.). With a monthly standard of living of 6,000 euros in the Vosges for example, we place ourselves at the very top of the income hierarchy, while in Paris this sum is just enough to cross the bar of the richest 10%.”
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