Too expensive for some, insufficient for others… The 2023 budget presented this Monday by the Government does not convince many people. From the right and from the left, the opposition groups have not hesitated in recent hours to say all the bad things they thought about it. Like the local authorities who denounced a “globally dire” finance bill.
Medef did not hold back either, deploring the government’s “lack of ambition”. “France continues to live above its possibilities,” criticized the employers, who lamented the “increase in spending” and called for “budgetary sobriety.” Without a doubt the reproach of too much for Bruno Le Maire who answered sharply this Tuesday about France inter:
“The coffee is still a little strong. The Medef considers that we have increased the debt and the deficits. Well, I make you a proposal: all that remains is to give up lowering taxes on production. It costs 8 billion euros. We will save money,” he said. the Minister of Economy. In its draft budget, the Government plans to eliminate the contribution to business added value (CVAE) by 2024, a request that comes directly from employers.
“Show some consistency”
“If the Medef wants us to reduce public spending, the Labaronne commission (a group of deputies in charge of proposing ways to reduce public spending, editor’s note) has identified all the tax credits that companies benefit from,” he indicated again. Bruno LeMaire. “That they come and identify with us the tax credits that we could reduce and that they show a little consistency,” continued the minister, in an unusually dry tone towards businessmen.
In the same logic, the tenant of Bercy asked the Medef to “stop supporting the pension reform lip service”, but with “enthusiasm” and “determination”. “That they come with us to work on this issue, that they support the pension reform with great will, because there are 8 to 9 billion euros of savings at the end of the five-year period,” he concluded.
Source: BFM TV
