Every measure has a cost.
Faced with the inflationary surge which would be 5.2% for the year 2022 according to Bercy's latest estimate, the government had taken a whole range of measures at the start of the summer.
Among the latter, the full indexation of the income tax scale to inflation.
This means that the amounts from which a taxpayer moves from one tax bracket to another are reassessed in the spring of 2023. With a view to the 2023 budget, the executive has therefore opted for an increase in the latter by 5, 3%.
A sharp increase compared to that of 2022, which was around 1.4%.
The measure, which will be included in the finance bill - presented next Monday - has a cost for public finances,
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Guest of CNews, Gabriel Attal clarified that this modification represents “
6.2 billion euros in income tax reduction for the French
”.
A non-rise in taxation, more exactly.
“
We are raising the income tax scale to the same level as inflation.
(…) For a single person who works at the minimum wage, if we did not do that, she would return to tax, whereas she does not pay it today, and she would pay around 130 euros
”, adds the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts.
Before further illustrating his remarks:
"A single person who earns 2,500 euros, whose salary has not increased"
will have a tax reduction
"of 328 euros"
per year.
According to him, there are French
who have seen their salaries increase
": "
If we don't raise the income tax scale, it becomes a tax increase.
»
Cost for public finances
At the beginning of June, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire had already indicated that
“it
(was)
out of the question that employees, French people pay more income tax with inflation”.
Without this revaluation of the tax brackets, many French people who did not pay taxes until now would therefore have been taxable.
In other words, the government prefers to impose this cost on public finances rather than to charge the French, whose incomes have progressed less rapidly than prices throughout recent months.