The day after the rejection of the Zucman tax in committee of the National Assembly, the first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, urged parliamentarians this Tuesday, October 21, to make numerous “corrections” in the budget project, under penalty of censure by the socialists.
“If the copy is not corrected to protect the French from what is happening, the election of billionaires over ordinary people, we would have to receive an extremely harsh trial,” declared the head of the Socialists on RTL.
“Censorship is possible at any time,” he warned.
Much to the dismay of the left, the Zucman tax, on the assets of the ultra-rich, was rejected Monday afternoon in the Finance Committee of the National Assembly. The government side and the RN voted against, fearing that the measure would promote “a wave of deindustrialization.”
“The masks fall”
“From the moment they apply this tax (…) they will guarantee that these companies, in any case their leaders, can implement numerous tax avoidance or optimization systems to avoid paying it,” justified the vice president of the National Group, Sébastien Chenu, in the Public Senate.
“The masks are falling off,” commented Olivier Faure. The National Rally “passes as a party that defends widows and orphans,” but in reality it is “the extension of Macronism.”
The same observation for the president of the Finance Committee, Éric Coquerel (LFI), who deplored on France 2 an agreement between the common base and the flame party, “to reject all the tax justice measures that we propose.”
“There is a measure that I managed to save on the differentiated tax and that allows only existing tax evaders to be pursued.” Aside from that, “everything we proposed in the direction of (tax justice) has been discarded” for the moment, he added.
The Zucman tax will be discussed again starting next Friday in the chamber of the National Assembly where the deputies will start from the initial copy of the government’s text. It plans to make taxpayers with assets of at least 100 million euros pay a minimum tax of 2%, including professionals.
Source: BFM TV
