This special bill is the budget pillar of this year's budget proposal without a vote, and it was unanimously passed by a parliamentary committee on Thursday. This comes after intense debate over the constitutionality of revising the income tax table.
Whenever possible, non political texts are only intended to authorize the government to levy taxes and disburse credit on the basis of the previous budget (2024). It also plans to authorize borrowing in the market to provide funds for national and social security.
A rush to pass on January 1, waiting for a real state budget to be voted on in 2025. MPs have long debated the constitutionality of an amendment to index the income tax scale on inflation as soon as the special law.
Amendment on Income Tax Indexation
Without a new budget 380000 new residential units According to the executive, on paper, they may pay taxes in 2025. This argument has been widely raised in front of the reviewers of the Barnier government.
The problem could be resolved in a budget text in 2025, but MPs from the NFP and RN intend to find a solution as soon as the special law. The legal controversy turned to the political quarrel between government supporters, who want to illustrate the consequences of censorship, and the opposition, who hope to show that it will not burden these taxpayers.
For administrative departments that rely on the opinions of the State Council, this strategy would be unconstitutional by removing special laws from their legal framework and providing for a tax deferral in 2024.
Eric Coquerel, chair of the LFI commission, declared the amendments admissible, and tabled one himself, considering that indexing could respect the spirit of the law, by allowing " Update the same scope of constrained personnel Income tax in 2024.
a heated debate
A concept It's not true Perrine Goulet (MoDem) argues that people have to pay income tax every year. . Why this type of tax and not other taxes? Macronist Jean-René Cazeneuve said. Everyone is calling for the issue to be resolved in a real budget by 2025.
« What troubles you is that you don't have the leverage for the next budget and can't say in January 2025: If you don't vote, there won't be exponentiation Matthias Reno (RN) replied that Marine Le Pen condemned X The Macro Lies ».
The index amendment was passed with 25 votes in favor, 19 abstentions, and 2 votes against, with the majority of common core members abstaining. The warm-up round before next Monday and a half will start from the initial text.
Thanks to RN MPs and despite the hypocritical abstention of "common ground" MPs, the indexation of the income tax scale is voted in the special law.
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) December 12, 2024
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Ya ë l Braun Pivet must make a decision
But this time, Parliament President Yar Braun Pivi will make a judgment on the acceptability of the amendment this weekend. . It will make legal decisions, not political decisions “He points out his entourage.
If parliamentarians in the Assembly and the Senate validated the indexing, then a sensitive question would arise: who would take the political risk of seizing the Constitutional Council on a measure of popular essence?