While the country is taking on record levels (116.4% of GDP, unprecedented!) To settle the coronavirus bill, the government is not changing its position: no question of increasing the taxes of the French and companies to pay the bill for Covid-19.
Nor even to review the trajectories of lowering certain compulsory levies, such as the abolition of the housing tax (for the 20% of the wealthiest taxpayers by 2023) or even the reduction in corporate tax, undertaken during this five-year term, for a total amount of 45 billion euros.
Better, to restore air to businesses, the executive decided to lower production taxes by 10 billion euros on more than 70 billion, from 2021, as part of the recovery plan.
A necessity to get out of the crisis
In fact, not raising taxes is an absolute necessity to get out of the crisis in the short term.
Indeed, in times of crisis, the increase in the tax burden further weakens activity by
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