Less than 45% of French people pay income tax, is that serious?

But is it a problem that less than half of French people are currently involved in this specific compulsory deduction? “There is not only income tax in the strict sense in France,” points out Agnès Verdier-Molinié, director of the Ifrap foundation, dedicated to research on public policies. There is also the CSG (generalized social contribution) which, if it is assimilated in the minds of our fellow citizens to social security contributions, is in fact an income tax. »