TRemove about thirty billion euros additional per year, over the next few years, to finance the war effort, this is the new and formidable challenge that the executive has faced, since the drop of Europe by Donald Trump. The budget puzzle promises to be all the more evil that Emmanuel Macron set the framework, in his television address on March 5: it will be necessary “Reforms, choices, courage”he warned. But of tax increases, there is no question.
However, if the country’s rearmament appears necessary in the face of the Russian threat, it can hardly consider itself without a tightening of national cohesion. Marylise Léon, the secretary general of the CFDT, says it bluntly: the people “Wants to help make efforts, but everyone has to make efforts”. Difficult not to read between the lines: how, on the one hand, to consider a reduction in public spending without, on the other, to seek the wealthiest?
A note from the Institute of Public Policy, published in June 2023, based on the analysis of income declarations and tax declarations of companies in France in 2016, demonstrates that there is room for maneuver. For the “billionaires”, the searge of 0.0002 % richest in the country, income tax only represents only “Negligible fraction” From total of their income, the main tax paid being corporate tax. A note emanating from the Directorate General of Public Finances, published in late January, widens the table. The authors indicate that, over the past twenty years, the annual income of 40,700 the richest tax households in the country has doubled in twenty years.
Increase in inequalities before tax
This figure is spectacular and only concerns a very small number of people. He must not hide the forest: for two decades, inequalities in front of the tax has increased in France. The most modest half of the population and a fringe of 9.9 % of wealthy people saw the amount of their contribution. At the same time, the upper middle classes and the truest people have seen them lighten them.
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