An “a priori attractive” monitor to soak up the deficit of the “security” | EUROtoday

Emmanuel Macron succeeded: to switch the controversial concept of ​​a “social VAT” on the coronary heart of the talk. Even if he didn’t make use of this time period, Monday, May 13 on TF1, throughout this system “The challenges of France”, the President of the Republic implicitly argued in favor of such a venture which, with very massive traces, consists in reducing the contributions taken from wages and changing these with a further tax on items and providers bought by customers.

Does the measure, talked about for years and which just about was applied on the initiative of Nicolas Sarkozy when he was on the Elysée, fascinating? It is that this query that the High Council for the financing of social safety is attempting to enlighten, in a working doc introduced Thursday to the members of this physique, and to which The world had entry. He synthesizes the completely different current factors of view, concluding that this monitor, “A priori attractive”deserves to be explored – amongst others and below sure situations.

The doc was produced on the request of François Bayrou. The Prime Minister had seized, originally of March, the High Council and two different specialists of specialists in order that they made proposals with the attitude of the social safety financing invoice for 2026. An train with an insoluble equation: even when it was finally much less necessary than anticipated, the deficit of the “security” nonetheless reached 15.3 billion euros in 2024 and it might attain, in 2025, 22 billion euros.

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