The Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, said on Tuesday that he wanted to "continue to build a Marshall Plan
for the middle classes
" to allow them to "
live better
" from their work, the day after President Emmanuel Macron's televised address.
"
What the president is asking us (...) is ultimately to continue to build a Marshall Plan for the middle classes in the months to come
," said Gabriel Attal on France Inter radio.
“
We have done a lot for the middle classes
”, he underlined, referring in particular to the abolition of the housing tax, a reduction of 5 billion euros in income tax or the tax exemption of overtime. .
“
I believe that the president is asking us (…) to continue this action with measures to make a better living from his work.
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Act on the organization of work
In addition to the possibility of additional measures for the purchasing power of the middle classes, this requires, according to Gabriel Attal, to act on the organization of work and to guarantee “
better access to public services
”.
"
In addition to the purchasing power tax measures on which we must continue to make progress for those who work, we must also make progress on other issues, the meaning and organization of work," he said
.
“
I believe that we can make France the country that has the best public services in Europe.
We put the means into it in terms of budget
, ”he said again about the billions released for the hospital and education.
In his speech on Monday, Emmanuel Macron gave himself "
one hundred days
" to act "
in the service of France
" and relaunch his second five-year term mired in the crisis caused by his pension reform.
In addition to "
a new work life pact
", the president has promised to tackle illegal immigration as well as social and tax fraud.
Gabriel Attal indicated that he would present "
in the coming weeks
" an anti-fraud plan "
with strong measures
“, as a doubling of the staff of the Service of judicial investigations of finances (SEJF).
Currently made up of 266 investigators according to the Customs website, the SEJF had notably participated in March in massive searches in banks in France suspected of tax evasion.