Heavily impacted by the coronavirus crisis in 2020 with an explosion in spending and a fall in revenue, public finances have certainly not finished sinking into bright red.
Starting with the state coffers.
While exceptional aid to support the French economy will continue - even explode - at a time when a third confinement is looming, tax revenues should again be very affected.
Already in 2020, they had fallen by 37.1 billion euros to reach a low of 256 billion.
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Currently, the cost (expenditure and loss of revenue) for the state of the 6 p.m. curfew would weigh around 10 billion euros per month, including 3 to 4 billion of lost revenue, recently argued the LREM deputy and rapporteur general of the budget to the Assembly, Laurent Saint-Martin.
"We can imagine that if there were more restrictions, we could quickly reach 15 billion euros per month (total cost), maybe even
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