Too early to admit defeat. Guest at 8 p.m. This Thursday on France 2, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Roland Lescure, did not declare himself a loser after the rejection, by a large majority, of the income part of the State budget for 2026 in a commission of the National Assembly.
The Bercy tenant praises Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s commitment not to resort to article 49.3 of the Constitution to forcibly adopt the government’s bill, while the practice has become frequent under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron.
What taxation in 2026?
Remembering that “everyone [fera] efforts”, Roland Lescure, however, puts the brakes on taxation. “Yes to tax justice, no to tax overbidding”, he stated this Thursday afternoon, while the socialist Boris Vallaud raises the risk of censure in the absence of tax justice measures.
However, in committee, MPs from all sides largely dismantled the text drawn up by the Government, before finally rejecting it. Although the government had frozen the income tax scale, deputies adopted an amendment aimed at partially reindexing the scale based on inflation (i.e. 1%), to protect the most modest households. Other amendments were adopted to attack the richest. The left, for example, proposed reestablishing the exit tax.
The members of the Modem group, for their part, have added a reform of the Dutreil pact, a tax loophole highly criticized by the left because it allows significant tax savings to the richest who pass on a family holding company. They suggest, in particular, introducing an age framework for donees: at least one of them should be between 18 and 60 years old on the day of the transfer.
It remains to be seen whether the chamber’s deputies will resume these measures during the budget review in public session that begins this Friday, October 24.
Source: BFM TV
