There will be no fiscal “tinkering” to complete the budget, assures Amélie de Montchalin
Amélie de Montchalin assures that there will be no «bricolage» fiscal to complete the budget, without detailing the possible financing routes but confirming that the text will be adopted either by ordinance or by recourse to 49.3, in a newspaper interview West France. “We no longer have a choice. Through their successive votes, the extremes have made the text of the main budget voluntarily incoherent and unvotable. It is a form of alliance of sabotage against which we must find a political, transpartisan agreement, in the interest of the country.she argues.
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The Minister of Public Accounts excludes the implementation of new taxes to finance the measures announced Friday by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, while affirming like him that France’s public deficit will be reduced to 5% of gross domestic product this year, compared to 5.4% in 2025. “We will be at 5% in 2026”promises Mme de Montchalin, according to whom “the effort will be based equally on reductions in expenditure and increases in revenue”, “without ever” focus on households.
“No new tax measures, no tinkering, no taxes invented at the last moment. In 2025, the 400 largest companies in France contributed very significantly to the financing of the Nation, this effort will be maintained in 2026”announces the minister, “but now excluding mid-sized companies whose investment the government wants to support.”
