Lacking in popularity, the President of the Republic promises a tax cut to win back the middle classes. A common exercise among rulers who have in the past multiplied measures towards these categories of French people.
Emmanuel Macron indicated, Monday, May 15, on TF1, to want “focus” two billion euros in tax cuts on the middle classes by 2027, without detailing the avenues envisaged. Exemption from overtime, lower income tax, abolition of the car sticker, long before the current President of the Republic, from Jacques Chirac to From Nicolas Sarkozy to Lionel Jospin, political leaders have put in place different strategies to try to obtain their favors.
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Nicolas Sarkozy’s “work more to earn more”
This category of French is “too rich to be poor and too poor to be rich“, said Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking of the middle classes.he former President of the Republic captured a significant portion of the middle classes in 2007 thanks to his slogan “Work more to earn more“with a symbolic measure: tax exemption for overtime. This measure was structured as follows: less social contributions and less tax on overtime, so in theory, more money at the end of the month. But the financial crisis of 2008/2009 will undermine this system which will not be able to play its full role because there will be nothing to work with”moredue to the sharp rise in unemployment.
FFinally in 2012, voters will remember above all Nicolas Sarkozy’s measures in favor of the wealthiest French people, in particular the tax shield.
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The reduction in income tax promised by Jacques Chirac
In 2002, in the midst of the election campaign for his re-election, the presidential candidate promised a five-year reduction of one-third in income tax. This tax is paid little by the poorest French people who are often exempt from it, the middle class is sensitive to this promise, as is the fringe of the richest French people.
But the successive tax cuts will be weaker than expected due to the economic situation and the promised tax cut will be half as large as expected. Under the two mandates of Jacques Chirac, a CREDOC study shows that the situation and the morale of the middle classes began to deteriorate.
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The removal of Lionel Jospin’s car sticker
In 2000, the Socialist Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac benefited from an economic improvement. Unemployment has been falling for a year and fiscal leeway is appearing in the state budget. PTo seduce the middle classes, Lionel Jospin abolishes the car vignette, lowers the VAT by one point to 19.6% and lowers the first four income tax rates as well as, but to a lesser extent, the following two, those which concern the wealthiest. The measures are staggered until 2002. They will not avoid the elimination of Lionel Jospin in the first round of the presidential election.