Should we expect an increase in taxes for individuals and businesses?

Among the French, some should soon see their taxes increase. Would retirees be the first to be affected by the upcoming tax increase? “I find it shameful because we have worked all our lives. In addition, I had a long career so I worked a lot, I paid a lot of contributions. Now that I am old, I still have to pay, it is scandalous”says a pensioner. According to the Prime Minister’s reported remarks, taxes should spare the middle classes: they would represent people with an income between 1,440 euros and 3,110 euros net per month and per individual. Above this threshold, could the classes concerned be taxed more?

The track is being considered by Matignon. For Philippe Bertrand, CEO of a marble company with 45 employees, it is a false good idea: “It will weaken society, it will make us lose competitiveness, it will make us lose one or two or three jobs in two years”he explains. Tax the largest companies or all of them? Nothing is arbitrated. In the past, the State had already used this solution. In 1995, a surcharge was put in place on corporate tax, disappearing a few years later when the situation had returned to normal. At the time, this mechanism had allowed the State to recover a billion euros per year.

• Study by the Montaigne Institute on the middle classes with Credoc and Insee
• Eric Heyer, economist at OFCE
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