Sébastien Lecornu should determine on Monday between article 49.3 and the ordinance, throughout a council of ministers | EUROtoday

The surtax on the income of huge corporations, one of many key factors of the budgetary debate, will repay “around 8 billion [d’euros] » in the final version of the 2026 budget that the government is preparing to propose, announced on Sunday evening January 18, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon on Franceinfo.

This system, which was to have a yield of 4 billion euros in the initial version of the government budget, will ultimately bring in as much as in 2025 and will have “the same scale”confirmed the spokesperson, nonetheless making certain that mid-sized corporations (ETI) shall be exempt. The authorities thus satisfies one of many predominant calls for of the Socialist Party, which plans to not censor the federal government within the coming days.

“This effort requested from very large companies has a very clear meaning and a national scope: it will directly contribute to financing the acceleration of our defense trajectory”pleads the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, in a letter addressed Sunday night to enterprise leaders. The head of presidency assures that the latter are thereby taking “all their part in the country’s effort in a demanding strategic context” and greet a “concrete expression of their patriotism”.

A council of ministers shall be held on Monday, which ought to enable Sébastien Lecornu to decide on which constitutional device to make use of to convey the price range to fruition, Maud Bregeon additionally stated. Between article 49.3 and the price range order, “nothing is excluded, and it will happen tomorrow [lundi] »promised the government spokesperson. “It will be at that time [lors du conseil des ministres] that we will have the opportunity to announce » the tool chosen, she said.

The government renounces the reduction in the CVAE

Furthermore, the Prime Minister announced in his letter to business leaders that he had had to give up lowering the contribution on business value added (CVAE), a production tax castigated by the bosses. “Any savings on reductions in charges have therefore been renounced, to the detriment, unfortunately, of the reduction in CVAE, which appeared in the initial text”he wrote in his letter, whereas the preliminary price range proposal mixed the 2.

The preliminary draft price range deliberate not solely to scale back this manufacturing tax, however to get rid of it definitively in 2028, two years earlier than the beforehand deliberate deadline, at a value of 1.3 billion euros. This corresponded to a robust expectation of entrepreneurs. “I nevertheless remain convinced that tomorrow we will have to continue the decline in the CVAE which has started in recent years”specifies the pinnacle of presidency in his letter.