Question 19706 — public finances

Summary

Ms. Josiane Corneloup draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy and Finance to the recent Eurostat report which shows a double record held by France in Europe: the record in 2018 for taxes, duties and social contributions (47.8% of GDP) and the European record for public spending (56% of GDP). Tax policy is not only unfair and ineffective, but the reversals and contradictions that characterize it make it now incomprehensible. Thus, after having massively increased fuel taxes on January 1, 2018, after having increased the CSG of retirees, including the most modest among them like never before, after having deindexed retirement pensions and family allowances, the Government seems to discover that there are too many taxes in France! Announcements of tax cuts are vague and some can even resemble untruths. Most tax cuts are not tax cuts but in reality correspond to returns on increases. This is the case for the CSG, fuels or deindexation for which the Government is only very partially canceling the increases that it itself had voted for. After the Government's multiple announcements concerning corporate tax increases and then reductions amounting to 2.4 billion euros for the latter, there is a lack of consistency and fiscal visibility. Consequently, she wants to know when and how the Government will propose real tax cuts and real reductions in public spending.

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