What 2023 budget draft presented by government contains

First of the new five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, the finance bill, which contains in particular the new price shield, is unlikely to escape a passage via article 49.3.

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A five -year period hunts the other. In the fall of 2017, the first budget of the macron mandate was intended to be the tool of the transformative will on which the candidate on the march had been elected: reform of the taxation of capital with the abolition of the ISF and the implementation of The “flat tax”, beginning of the decline in the housing tax, significant increase in ecological taxation. In a context of economic upturn, the new executive also promised a renewed “serious” budgetary … and the return to balance of public accounts in 2022.

Five years later, crises – “yellow vests”, covid, war in Ukraine, drought … – have turned upside down the planned trajectory and Macron the reformer, although re -elected, is criticized for the lack of breath of his second term . Above all, the legislative elections of June made the presidential party lose the absolute majority, making significantly more perilous the implementation of the government’s economic policy. It is therefore in an unprecedented context for the Head of State that the finance bill (PLF) 2023 should be presented, Monday September 26 in the Council of Ministers – at the same time as a new finance programming law public, fixing a budgetary trajectory over five years.

“This budget will be very complex for the government, because it is filled with contradictions, with both a CAP – the supply policy and the decreases of deficits – and an economic situation which lesses the revenues and requests Expenses to face the energy crisis, “sums up Eric Coquerel, the president (LFI) of the finance committee in the National Assembly.

A “at the same time” perilous, which should not facilitate the task of the executive. “It is customary that the oppositions do not vote the budget,” recalls Véronique Louwagie, deputy of the Orne and Cheffe de File Les Républicains at the Finance Committee. The government, which has a moment believed to be able to count on abstention to have its text adopted, has seemed to resolve it in recent days without a vote, when it judges discussions in a dead end. “There is still a narrow path to pass the text without 49.3,” said the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. “The oppositions themselves told us that the 49.3 was likely,” said the Minister Deputy Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal on Sunday in an interview with the Sunday Journal. A method often assimilated to a force passage, which he has tried to alleviate by summoning “Bercy dialogues” in recent days to present parliamentarians from all stripes the main lines of the budget. This outstretched hand will also allow, if necessary, to make oppositions the responsibility for a failure of the debates.

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