Bercy is getting ready minds for a brand new tax improve in 2026 | EUROtoday

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Eric Lombard, Minister of the Economy and Finance, and Amélie de Montchalin, Minister responsible for public accounts, in Paris, April 16, 2025.

Officially, nothing has but been determined. It is simply round mid-July that Prime Minister, François Bayrou, will return his arbitrations and current the primary strains of the finances for 2026 and his plan to redress public funds in three or 4 years. With, maybe, a referendum on the topic. But, over the present negotiations, a placing growth is already rising in relation to the speeches held thus far: it is going to be troublesome to flee a rise in taxes. Bercy begins to organize the spirits there.

The authorities’s goal is actually that a lot of the monetary effort to come back in 2026 pertains to a limitation of public spending, indicated the officers of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, Tuesday, June 3, on the sidelines of a presentation to the press of the calendar of preparation of the finances. These financial savings measures, known as upon to signify the vast majority of the envisaged adjustment, will nonetheless probably be mixed with a rise in tax income.

Such a perspective might bristle on the proper. “In France, it is never the right time to reduce expenses, there is a kind of obstacle refusal, reacts the senator from Meurthe-et-Moselle Jean-François Husson (Les Républicains), general budget rapporteur. But we will have to tackle it. »» The macronist deputy for the Bas-Rhin Charles Sitzenstuhl is also alarmed: “I fear that, as with Michel Barnier, we do not start by promising a drop in expenses to finish with an explosion in taxes. »»

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