The fall of the Barnier government and the error in VAT repayment led the Department to postpone the vote on its budget until January 17. But without a finance law to date, the departmental assembly has had to focus on measures that are already certain. Vaucluse will not cut corners: 13 million euros to be found for the moment, perhaps more in a few months…
At this stage, the Department knows that it will lose 7.6 million euros in VAT repayments, pay 1.7 million more contributions for its agents, spend an additional 2.2 million due to the non-merger of packages in nursing homes (retirement homes for dependent people), pay 1.55 million for the ''Oubliés du Ségur''.
The President of the Department consulted all political groups in the National Assembly
The effort would have been much worse if the Barnier government had set up its state debt fund, in fact, Vaucluse would have been drained of 13 million…