Gabriel Attal, mMinister Delegate to the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty in charge of Public Accounts was the guest of the 8:30 a.m. france infoFriday June 10, 2022. Taxes, inflation compensation… He answers questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
Inflation compensation: “the exceptional aid paid during the Covid crisis”, a “good reference”
To get an idea of what will be the aid paid at the start of the school year to the most modest who face rising prices, we must look back, according to the Minister of Public Accounts. “In 2020, during the Covid crisis, we had the opportunity to pay exceptional aid twice for low-income families”to know “families who were on social minima, jI believe that four million families had been affected”, indicates Gabriel Attal. “I can’t give you an announcement here, but I think it’s a good reference of what we are capable of doing”he adds.
“We also adapt to the family situation since the Prime Minister said so, the number of children in the home will obviously be counted for the payment” of this aid, recalls Gabriel Attal.
Taxes: the government still wants to “lower them”
To repay the French debt, the government excludes activating the lever of taxation. “We haven’t changed our minds on taxes, not only do we not want to increase them, but we want to lower them”, assures Gabriel Attal. He prefers to focus on economic activity. “The more people you have working, the more revenue you have for public finances”he hammers, from where “the reduction of production taxes for companies” which will be held “in 2023, this is what was announced”.
Two days before the legislative elections, the Minister of Public Accounts took the opportunity to oppose the government’s fiscal policy and that promised by the New Popular, Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), gathered behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “The reality is that the hidden program of Nupes is a massive increase in taxes for all French people”affirmed Gabriel Attal.
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