“We will never attack French people who work,” says Gabriel Attal

Gabriel Attal assured Wednesday April 3 that the government would not increase “Never” the taxation ofFrench people who work” Or “the fruit of their savings”, during the first session of parliamentary questions intended exclusively for the Prime Minister in the National Assembly. Recalling the creation of a working group of parliamentarians from the presidential camp to reflect on the taxation of annuities, the head of government affirmed that it was not a question of aiming, “as I can read here and there, the Livret A or the savings of the French”.

These proposals will be made “in the same logic” that the “contribution on the infra-marginal rent of energy companies and oil companies” or the taxation of “undue profits”that the majority has “assumed” to set up on “the income of large medical biology laboratories which during the Covid crisis made 7 billion in turnover thanks to Covid tests paid for by Social Security”underlined the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister reiterated on Tuesday that the government still planned to bring the deficit below 3% of GDP in 2027, despite its unprecedented slippage in 2023 to 5.5%, which could lead to a possible downgrade of the country’s debt rating. . The government must give next week “the trajectory which will allow us to reach 3% in 2027”.