Calvados. Élisabeth Borne supports the horse racing industry and writes to the minister

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The horse racing industry is in anger and wants to make it known. She organizes a demonstration in Paris and a “dead industry day”, Thursday November 7, 2024.

She contests a plan to overtax horse racing betting.

Élisabeth Borne, MP for Calvados, takes up the cause of the sector. The former Prime Minister also wrote to Laurent Saint-Martin, Ministry of Economy and Finance.

In this letter, she first returns to the national context and the future vote on the Budgetwhich “promises to be a key moment, awaited as much as dreaded by citizens and businesses. Everyone understands the need to make savings and seek new sources of financing to best serve the general interest. »

“It risks weakening the equine industry”

Élisabeth Borne then draws attention to an amendment to the PLFSS 2025 which proposes a increase in taxation on horse racing betting.

If such a measure seems favorable to the recovery of our public accounts, it nevertheless risks seriously weakening the equine industry, an essential sector for many territories, and in particular for my constituency.

Jobs in danger

In this letter, she indicates that this sector represents around 66,000 direct and 130,000 indirect jobs in France.

In Calvados, this sector is essential: it shapes our identity, our history, and contributes to local economic development. However, the horse industry is currently in difficulty, and its weakening could have dramatic consequences for maintaining employment in rural areas.

The “vitality of many regions”

Finally, the former Prime Minister of France insists on the fact that “the horse sector deserves particular attention, because it is not a simple game of money: it is a pillar of our heritage, finances a complete agricultural sector and contributes to the vitality of many regions.”

It is therefore a weight support who is speaking out today and defending an entire sector.

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