The delegated minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, said on Tuesday that he wanted to “continue building a Marshall Plan for the middle classes” that allows them to “live better” from their work, the day after President Emmanuel Macron’s televised speech. “What the president is asking of us (…) is, ultimately, to continue building a Marshall Plan for the middle classes in the coming months,” Gabriel Attal said on France Inter radio.
“We have done a lot for the middle classes,” he stressed, referring in particular to the suppression of the housing tax, a reduction of 5,000 million euros in personal income tax or the exemption from the tax on overtime. “I believe that the president is asking us (…) to continue with this action with measures to make a better living from his work.”
New labor life pact and fight against fraud
In addition to the possibility of additional measures for the purchasing power of the middle classes, this requires, according to Gabriel Attal, action on the organization of work and guaranteeing “better access to public services.” “In addition to the purchasing power tax measures in which we must continue advancing for those who work, we must also advance on other issues, the meaning and organization of work,” he said.
In his speech this Monday, Emmanuel Macron gave himself “one hundred days” to act “at 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 working life pact,” the president pledged to tackle illegal immigration and social and tax fraud.
Gabriel Attal indicated that he will present “in the coming weeks” a plan to fight fraud “with forceful measures”, such as doubling the staff of the Financial Judicial Investigation Service (SEJF). Currently made up of 266 investigators according to the Customs website, the SEJF had been notably involved in March in mass searches of banks in France suspected of tax evasion.
Source: BFM TV
