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Amélie de Montchalin believes that all the measures on the wealthiest within the 2026 finance invoice “would represent more than the ISF before 2017”

During the debates within the Assembly on the draft finance legal guidelines, the president of the finance committee, Eric Coquerel, requested Monday the Minister of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, how a lot Bercy estimated the return on the measures taken because the begin of the debates on essentially the most lucky.

The minister detailed the federal government’s estimates for a number of measures.

➡️The extension of the differential contribution on increased incomes (CDHR), setting a minimal tax fee of 20% for households whose revenue exceeds 250,000 euros, till the deficit falls under 3%, ought to usher in 1.5 billion euros in 2026, in response to the federal government.

➡️The tax on holding corporations (a software typically utilized by the ultra-rich to keep away from taxes) proposed by the federal government was adopted in a watered-down model. The proper has succeeded in limiting the variety of holding corporations focused in addition to the bottom, by exactly itemizing the sumptuary properties involved. Its new yield is estimated at “a few hundred million euros, between 100 million and 200 million”specified the minister.

➡️An modification adopted to article 150-0 B ter of the final tax code –⁠ “150-0 B ter” –, which offers with the contribution-transfer regime and goals to encourage the enterprise supervisor or entrepreneur to reinvest in France by exempting from tax the complete capital acquire linked to the sale of the corporate’s securities, modifies the situations of this exemption. This would require 80% of the proceeds from the sale to be reinvested within the so-called productive financial system inside the following 5 years. The yield is estimated at “a few hundred million euros”in response to Mme of Montchalin.

➡️ MPs voted in favor of reworking the actual property wealth tax (IFI) into an unproductive wealth tax, which broadens the tax base whereas modifying the size and creating a discount on the primary or sole residence. On Monday, the minister estimated the price of this measure at 500 million euros.

➡️ The progressive scale of the IFI has, furthermore, been changed by a single fee of 1% (in comparison with 0.5% to 1.5% presently). The tax fee threshold is maintained at 1.3 million euros below a socialist sub-amendment, whereas MP Mattei meant to lift it to 2 million. The minister argued on Monday “expected yield of the IFI in 2026 of 3.1 billion”.

“If we take the package of measures that are currently planned in the 2026 budget, we add it up and we can clearly see that it is higher than the return on what the ISF was in 2017”which was 5.1 billion euros, concluded the minister.

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