End of the applause around the Zucman tax. The National Assembly widely rejected this Friday, October 31, this tax on great wealth proposed by the left, a rejection anticipated by the PS, which continues to ask for alternative measures of tax justice in the draft budget.
If the atmosphere seems festive on the right and the extreme right, the left quickly criticized this decision, which should be “the minimum of fiscal justice,” considers the president of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot.
“The Zucman tax, which was the minimum of fiscal justice, was largely rejected in this chamber because the RN changed its position. It abstained eight months ago and is now voting against,” denounced the Val-de-Marne deputy. The only answer “is censorship,” he urges.
“All the rights were involved”
For her part, the environmental and social deputy Clémentine Autain explained that “the extreme right has lent a hand in this operation that aims to allow the billionaires to stop.” An “unbearable fiscal separatism” in which “all the rights got involved,” summarizes Clémentine Autain.
The PS, which had proposed in particular a “light” Zucman tax, denounced this vote as not implying a “compromise”, urges the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, in reference to the Prime Minister who called on the parliamentary groups to reach “compromises” on the budget debates in the National Assembly.
“What we want is for the French not to have to pay the tax that billionaires do not want to pay,” he explains in front of the chamber.
The LFI deputy, Éric Coquerel, denounces the end of a “farce” and a “comedy that we have been experiencing for a week.” The government “wants to maintain” its position on the Zucman tax or “be defeated.” “(The government) will have to beat him and censor him,” he adds.
“The wall of the chamber is the wall of money (…) the slightest commitment that allows us to restore confidence in the country and cover the enormous, gigantic public deficit is rejected,” the deputy reacted “Get up!” of the Somme, François Ruffin.
Sébastien Lecornu in “deep disagreement” with the left
In their speeches, left-wing deputies highlighted the growing share of GDP as a percentage of the richest people and the lower taxation of the ultra-rich compared to the average Frenchman.
An hour after this vote, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu stated that he was in “deep disagreement” with the left over the Zucman tax, considering that there is no “miracle tax.”
“You cannot make our fellow citizens listen for weeks and months that there is a miracle tax to restore tax justice, and when we talk about it show mockery and cynicism,” he insists.
The creator of this tax, economist Gabriel Zucman, assured that this tax “will eventually see the light.” “All battles of this nature need time to be won. It will be an important issue in the 2027 presidential elections. I am not disappointed,” he confesses at the Cà vous microphone.
Source: BFM TV
