amendments on the indexation of the income tax scale declared inadmissible

A special law to ensure the continuity of the State budget is examined from 4 p.m. Monday in the National Assembly.

The battle over the budget between the executive and the oppositions continues. The deputies will examine from 4 p.m., Monday December 16, the special law to ensure “the continuity of the State”as the year ends and no 2025 budget has yet been adopted. A large number of deputies also wanted this bill to make it possible to index the income tax scale to inflation, in order to avoid increases for taxpayers next year. But their amendments were declared inadmissible by Yaël Braun-Pivet, franceinfo learned from the entourage of the President of the National Assembly.

The elected Macronist notably followed an opinion from the Council of State, which had estimated on December 10 that the special law was not the appropriate vehicle to implement this indexation, because this would, according to him, take this text out of its scope, theoretically intended to renew existing taxes. Gérard Larcher, the President of the Senate, agreed with this, in La Tribune Sunday.

Author of one of the inadmissible amendments, the LFI president of the finance committee, Eric Coquerel, regretted that it was not kept for “be tested by the Constitutional Council” after the adoption of the law, arguing that there was no precedent (in 1979, the government had to resort to a form of special law, but without indexation measure).

This law authorizes the government “to continue to collect existing taxes”until the vote on a new budget. The law also allows the State and Social Security to borrow on the financial markets, so as not to find themselves in default of payments. The Senate will in turn examine the text on Wednesday.