Lower taxes and reduced debt? This is Gabriel Attal’s project for the 2024 budget, which will be presented to the National Assembly and the Senate in the fall. In an interview granted to figarothe Delegate Minister in Charge of Public Accounts states that “debt reduction is a national emergency.”
“We assume that we prefer a proactive, but progressive, debt reduction to an austerity that would have disastrous consequences for economic activity,” explains Gabriel Attal in the newspaper’s columns, who insists that this “ambitious commitment” will be “maintained”.
A public debt that continues to be important. It crossed the symbolic threshold of 3 billion euros for the first time in the first quarter, INSEE said at the end of June.
“Empowering companies and users”
Gabriel Attal intends to “consider systematically the impact” of each track of the economy “on the middle class.” A category of population that the minister defines as “those French people who feel too rich to be poor and too poor to be rich”.
Even so, the government intends to “save money” in certain sectors, says Gabriel Attal, who mentions “the subsidized contracts that we will reduce considerably again.” However, he refuses to “talk about austerity in a country that continues to spend more than it earns.”
“Regarding the Social Security budget, I assume that measures must be taken to stop the increase in the number of casualties,” the minister advances in particular, who intends to “hold (…) responsibility on the side of companies and users
Finally, while Bruno Le Maire recently mentioned a possible tax cut, Gabriel Attal assures “that in 2027, the French and companies [en] will pay less than in 2022”.
“The issue lies simply in the rate of tax cuts and that rate will depend on the economic situation, our debt reduction trajectory and the needs of companies and households”, specifies the Delegate Minister of Public Accounts.
Source: BFM TV
