Direct. Follow the examination of the special bill in the Senate

The resigning Minister of Public Accounts, Laurent Saint-Martin recalled that the special bill did not replace the adoption of a budget for 2025. “The situation has not changed since the resignation of the government. The state of our accounts is the same”, he underlined, recalling that “this text does not prejudge future budgetary decisions which will be made under the authority of François Bayrou by a new full-time government”.

This text has only one objective, that of ensuring, on an exceptional and transitional basis, the continuity of the life of the nation,” he continued. This is why the text does not allow the income tax scale to be modified to index it to inflation, but only to authorize the government to continue to collect taxes until the vote on the next budget. “.

However, decrees will be issued after the promulgation of the law. “The appropriations relating to voted services will be temporarily opened by decree. These voted services correspond to the minimum level of credits deemed essential to enable the execution of public services in 2025 under the conditions of the previous year. While waiting for the next budget, the government will not be able to increase the budgets of the armies, justice and/or the interior in accordance with the trajectory of the programming laws.

However, due to reasons of “continuity of national life, and marked emergency”, the State may make investments or discretionary expenditures intended for the community of Mayotte.