Which French people benefit the most from the absence of a budget? Conversely, who are the biggest losers? The OFCE carried out the survey and the middle class appears to be the most penalized category. In a note published on Sunday December 22, the French Observatory of Economic Conditions reviewed all the budgetary measures. On the one hand, those included in Michel Barnier's finance law and which were therefore abandoned with censorship, the most important being the freezing of the tax scale, which brings 400,000 households into the tax and brings 18 million taxpayers to pay more, and on the other hand, the measures which result more or less directly from the special finance law, such as the indexation of all pensions.
At the end of this compilation, the OFCE shows that active people are much more impacted by the situation than retirees. Among the active, the upper middle class, who work, is even more so, that is to say the French who have roughly between 2500 and 3500 euros per month for a single person. French people close to the median standard of living, around 2,000 net monthly for a single person, are also losers since according to the OFCE, they will lose around a hundred euros per year. In fact, those most penalized by the lack of budget therefore belong to the middle class. It is these French people, who represent a third of households, that Emmanuel Macron described as too rich to be helped, but too poor to live well.
The richest are doing better. For the 75,000 wealthiest tax households, it is necessary to earn more than 250,000 euros annually for a single person and 500,000 for a couple, it's bingo since they escape the exceptional contribution which was planned in the 2025 budget. The study also shows that for the wealthiest 10%, those who earn more than 3,500 euros in net income for a single person, the losses will exceed at least 300 euros per year. Except that due to the low progressivity of the tax in the highest brackets of the scale, the richest are relatively less affected than the others.
Companies, for their part, gain, because they avoid the 20 billion euros in compulsory levies and corporate taxes. For the largest, in addition, the exceptional contribution is abandoned. Not sure that the French appreciate these disparities, which will quickly be experienced as injustices. This is one of the reasons which should push François Bayrou not to delay too long in forming a government, to quickly draw up a budget and rectify the situation!
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