It's already stuck. Certain amendments to the “special law” on the budget were declared inadmissible this Monday by Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the National Assembly. Failing to have adopted a budget for 2025, deputies must examine this Monday afternoon a “special bill”, intended to guarantee the continuity of public services.
A large number of deputies wanted to take the opportunity to index the income tax scale to inflation, in order to avoid increases for taxpayers next year. Amendments to this effect were tabled by numerous deputies, including one signed by the general rapporteur of the Budget, Charles de Courson (Liot), and the president of the Finance Committee, Éric Coquerel (LFI).
But these amendments were declared inadmissible, in accordance with the opinion of the Council of State, declared the entourage of the President of the Assembly. Last Tuesday, the Council of State considered that the special law was not the appropriate vehicle to implement this indexation.
Tax increase for 17 million households
In the absence of indexation, “380,000 new households” could find themselves taxable next year, and “a little more than 17 million of them” would suffer an increase in this tax, according to the resigning Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin.
However, the situation could be corrected in the 2025 budget or in another bill at the start of next year, while the special bill, intended to guarantee the continuity of the State in the absence of a budget voted in 2024, is examined Monday by the Assembly.
Reacting to this decision on “On an unprecedented law, it seemed to me that the law was not stabilized and that the opinion that I had formulated could be understood and could at least have been tested before the Constitutional Council without damage to the entire law,” he only argues.
On the other hand, he insisted on a letter sent on Sunday to the new Prime Minister, co-signed with Charles de Courson, requesting that a certain number of tax provisions with “consensus within the two assemblies” and having an “urgent” character can come into force quickly. “. A proposal that, according to him, takes on “even more meaning” from now on. Among the proposed measures is notably this indexation of the tax scale to inflation.
A choice to “make censorship pay”, believe LFI and RN
Among the ranks of LFI, other deputies, on the other hand, reacted much more strongly, such as the vice-president of the National Assembly Clémence Guetté, who accuses Yaël Braun-Pivet of deciding “to increase your taxes”. “Macronie has decided to make the French pay for censorship. (…) Their baseness has no limit,” she criticizes, referring to the fall of the Barnier government on October 4, following the motion voted by the New Popular Front and the RN.
For its part, the RN group at the Palais-Bourbon also estimated that the President of the Assembly “muzzles the deputies”. “There is therefore an assumed desire to sanction the deputies, and in fact the French people they represent, for having voted for censure against the Government,” he also argues. He also refers to the 2025 budget, “examined in January for adoption before the tax collection period”, so that the scale is “adjusted” at that time.
The “special finance law” can be used when the State finds itself without a budget on January 1, in order to avoid administrative paralysis. It is not political in nature and often contains few articles. To summarize, it will make it possible to renew the 2024 budget for the year 2025, until a new budget is adopted.
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