Two weeks after the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry suggested taxing the richest taxpayers to finance the ecological transition, a form of “green ISF” rejected by the government, Pierre Moscovici judged on Sunday that the debate had been evacuated “too quickly “.
“This report must not be buried,” insisted the first president of the Court of Accounts on Radio J.
“I am not going to say that I agree with the tax proposal, it is not my role, but I find that the debate is being discarded too quickly,” he lamented.
Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Béchu initially said the debate was not “taboo”. But the next day, the Minister of Economy and N.2 of the government had closed the ban by stating that to finance the investments necessary for the ecological transition, taxes and debt “were not good options.”
“Let’s have this discussion”
“We must have a debate on this issue, we must not take it out of hand,” his predecessor at Bercy, Pierre Moscovici, commented on Sunday.
“I’m not advocating for imposition, I’m saying ‘let’s make this debate complete and without taboos,'” he added.
Words that echo those made by Laurent Berger. In an interview given on Friday afternoon to the daily le figaroThe general secretary of the CFDT at the exit lamented that the report “is already in the drawers when it should be on the desks.”
“The Government is locked in its dogma of not wanting to make the richest contribute, it is a mistake,” lashed out the head of the first French union.
Still on fiscal issues, Pierre Moscovici warned on Radio J against tax cuts not offset by equivalent revenue or a reduction in public spending of the same magnitude.
“We no longer have the means today for dry tax cuts,” he estimated, while the government has announced its intention to reduce taxes on the middle classes to the tune of two billion euros.
Source: BFM TV
