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2025 Budget: Employers and large groups fear a tax increase
2025 Budget: Employers and large groups fear a tax increase
(France 2)
Increase in corporate tax, increase in employer contributions… Bosses and large groups already fear that Michel Barnier will pull certain levers to fill the public deficit.
Forty billion euros are to be found to reduce the public deficit next year. A showdown has begun between Michel Barnier, the Prime Minister, who must bring money into the state coffers, and the boss of the bosses, who sets his conditions.
In Seine-Saint-Denis, Francis Dubrac, a construction industry executive, is not opposed to the idea of contributing more. But his company has 400 employees, 10% of whom are paid around the minimum wage. He is therefore concerned about the possible increase in employer contributions on low salaries.
Large groups also fear tax increases. Increasing corporate tax, which all large companies pay, is one of the avenues being explored by the government to make savings. A first since Emmanuel Macron came to power in 2017.