Could the French really escape an increase in income tax in the event of censorship?

“Anything”, “Totally false”Michel Barnier «ment» : before the vote on the motion of censure of the Barnier government this Wednesday afternoon, the National Rally (RN) like the left tried to reassure the French about the consequences of an overthrow of the executive, which would lead to its fall draft budget for 2025. And contradicted the main fear expressed in recent days by ministers: that of an increase in income tax (IR) for millions of taxpayers in the absence of a finance bill. for next year. Guest of TF1 and France 2 Tuesday evening, Michel Barnier repeated that «18 millions» of French “would see their income tax increase”. “Others will pay for the first time because we were unable to include the planned reindexation in the finance law. It’s inevitable”added the Prime Minister.

Guest on France Inter this Wednesday morning, Jordan Bardella judged “irresponsible (…) to go and tell the French anything to try to scare them”. According to the president of the RN, “a special law will be passed the very day after the rejection of this budget, which can perfectly provide – this was the case in 1979 – to re-index the income tax scale”. On the other side of the political spectrum, Éric Coquerel affirmed at the same time on BFMTV/RMC that this “famous special law would just make it possible to get through the end of the year”. “In a very short time, the new executive will be required to propose a new budget and it is this which will be used to calculate taxes for 2025”said a few days ago on X the LFI-NFP deputy, also president of the Finance Committee of the Assembly.

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