Tax increase for the “richest”: “We must go beyond 0.3%”, judge Alexis Corbière, pleading for a “tax revolution” – 03/10/2024 at 2:58 p.m.

Taxing the wealthiest, “it’s the least we can do,” said Alexis Corbière, L’après MP (ex-LFI) for Seine-Saint-Denis, speaking to France Info this Thursday, October 3.

An “exceptional” contribution to the recovery of public finances will be requested by the government

to the “most fortunate” French people

as part of the 2025 draft budget. According to Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin this Thursday, October 3 on

France 2,

this will not concern

that “0.3%” of households, or around 65,000

of them in France, out of the 20 million households paying income tax.

Is taxing the wealthiest a good idea?

“It’s the least we can do,”

judged Alexis Corbière, deputy L’après (ex-LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis, at the microphone of

France Info

this Thursday. It is even necessary, according to him, ”

go beyond 0.3%”,

proposing “a tax revolution” which “creates the conditions” to avoid “affecting 80 to 90% of households”. “But

the richest 10%, we must solicit them more”,

continued the MP, adding in the balance

“all surplus profits

which are carried out by groups, which pay even more dividends to their shareholders”. “All this must be

redirected towards useful public expenditure”,

estimated Alexis Corbière.

Then added: “There is a fundamental debate on this: why was the deficit widened? Not because we spent too much, but because there was

less revenue.”

An “exceptional” and “temporary” effort

Alexis Corbière also regretted the fact that “the 0.3% of the richest” have “amassed an incredible fortune.” “The 500 richest people own

the equivalent of 52% of our GDP”,

he underlined, deploring “things which have

increased under Emmanuel Macron.

This Thursday, the Minister of Budget and Public Accounts, attached to Matignon, justified the measure: “After the years of protection of employment, income, growth that we have had in recent years, we can legitimately ask to the wealthiest taxpayers of

participate exceptionally, temporarily

to this recovery effort”. Asked whether this contribution, the terms of which he did not specify, would cover a period of one year, he replied: “We will see that in the debate, but it is necessary whether it is temporary, in the same way as for very large companies,

It has to be temporary.”