The left is alarmed that hundreds of very wealthy individuals can evade taxes | EUROtoday

Are the richest French individuals paying the taxes they need to? Are hundreds of them actually managing to pay no earnings tax? Barely placed on maintain on the finish of 2025 by the failure of budgetary discussions and the vote on the particular finance legislation, the talk on this extremely delicate topic is beginning once more with a vengeance.

Eric Coquerel, the president (La France insoumise, LFI) of the finance committee of the National Assembly, introduced it, Tuesday January 13, on the opening of the brand new examination of the draft price range for 2026: he has simply written to Bercy to acquire exact info on the query. In the title of the legislation which obliges the administration to supply “all financial and administrative information and documents” that it requires, it requests the entire parts out there to the Ministry of the Economy on the topic, “whether these are notes, analyzes or figures developed by the services of the general directorate of public finances”.

Her colleague (Communist Party) from Hauts-de-Seine Elsa Faucillon additionally plans to query the chief on Wednesday throughout the federal government query session. François Ruffin, deputy for the Somme hooked up to the environmental group, despatched a written query to the Minister of the Economy, Roland Lescure. This is undoubtedly solely the start, as for the left, making the wealthy pay constitutes a central topic, and a promising marketing campaign theme.

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