Budget 2025: “0.3%” of households affected by the “exceptional” contribution for the richest French, announces the Budget Minister
the contribution “exceptional” to the recovery of public finances that the government will request from the French “the luckiest” within the framework of the draft budget for 2025 it will only refer “0.3%” homes, Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin announced on France 2 on Thursday.
Mr. Saint-Martin cited the example of“a household without children that earns approximately 500,000 euros per year”highlighting that he “talk[ait] truly the luckiest”any “0.3%” homes.
Questioned by Agence France-Presse, his ministry specified that the measure would affect some 75,000 households in France, which numbered 30.6 million in 2021 according to INSEE. The income levels in question will depend on the composition of the tax household.
“After the years of protecting jobs, incomes and growth that we have had in recent years, we can legitimately ask the wealthiest taxpayers to participate on an exceptional, temporary basis in this recovery effort”added the Minister of Budget and Public Accounts, attached to Matignon.
When asked if this contribution, the conditions of which he did not specify, would cover a period of one year, he replied: “We will see this in the debate, but it must be temporary, in the same way that for very large companies it must be temporary. »
“There will be no general increase in income tax”recalled Laurent Saint-Martin. “No, there will be no deindexation of the income tax scale”he added.
