within the footsteps of the technical modification which prices the federal government 2 billion euros | EUROtoday

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Mathieu Lefèvre, Minister Delegate for Ecological Transition, during a press conference at the Ministry of Agriculture in Paris on January 9, 2026. The amendment to the budget that he tabled in 2023 when he was a deputy is expected to cost 2 billion euros more than anticipated.

The info is nestled in one of many 197 parliamentary experiences which accompany the 2026 finances: an modification adopted on the finish of 2023 ought to value 2 billion euros greater than anticipated. This provision, very technical, was till now offered as painless and additional complicates the federal government’s calculations seeking 10 to fifteen billion euros to cut back the general public deficit. Special rapporteur for the finance committee, communist senator Pascal Savoldelli (Val-de-Marne) made this discovery by tracing using 145 billion euros in tax refunds made by the State.

This mass consists of the reliefs linked to the “exit tax”. This system, created in 2011 and revised a number of occasions since, taxes individuals who go away France. However, the taxpayer can profit from cost deferrals and scale back the “exit tax” of sure taxes and social safety contributions that he paid. But for individuals who left earlier than 2014, it was not potential to cut back social safety contributions. This is the purpose that Renaissance MP Mathieu Lefèvre (Val-de-Marne), now Minister Delegate for Ecological Transition, wished to switch in 2023.

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