This live is now over.
The Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, said on Tuesday, November 12, that he was in favor of the MoDem's proposal to extend the contribution requested from the wealthiest as part of the 2025 budget until the public deficit is reduced. “For example” has “4%” of GDP. In its initial project, the government proposes that the wealthiest households, whose tax income exceeds 250,000 euros for singles, widowers, divorced people, and 500,000 euros for couples, pay more than the exceptional contribution on already high incomes. in place for three years. A preliminary study published on the website of the Ministry of the Budget estimates that 24,300 households would be affected.
The “revenue” section rejected. The National Assembly clearly rejected, at first reading, the “revenue” part of the 2025 finance bill. The entire text is therefore considered to have been revised, putting an end to its examination. This scenario allows the government to go to the Senate with the original version of the text, even though it had been significantly rewritten.
A compromise on pensions. Retirement pensions will be partially increased on January 1, and the smallest will be increased again in July, the boss of the Republican Right deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, announced on Monday, demanding a compromise with the government. In his initial budget proposal, he intended to freeze the indexation of pensions to inflation until July. This adjustment will cost “between 500 and 800 million euros”estimated the Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, Tuesday on France 2.
La bnumber crunching continues. After the finance bill has been matched new taxes on super profits, super dividends or share buybacks,he Budget Minister denounced a “overdose fiscale” of taxes to “35 billion euros which will spare no one”. While Eric Coquerel, LFI president of the Finance Committee, estimated “75 billion” the revenues created, the general budget rapporteur, Charles de Courson (Liot), estimates them to be “12 billion”once the measurements have been subtracted “probably Euro-incompatible or unconstitutional”.
