The final vote had to take place in the early hours of the weekend, just in time to meet a constitutional deadline, but the suspense was non-existent. None of the political groups is prepared to vote in favor of the first part of the Finance Bill (PLF) for next year, with the future increasingly uncertain.
The DPR only has time to examine the part of the budget intended for revenue. After more than one hundred and twenty hours of hearings in session, approximately 2,500 amendments were discussed and nearly 500 adopted Sébastien Lecornu’s modified initial copy. To try to increase the deficit from 5.4% of gross domestic product (GDP) to 4.7% next year, according to the High Council of Public Finance, the government is introducing 14 billion euros in new revenues (and more spending cuts).
Between write-offs and revenue creation, Friday night, the total is complicated to calculate. Bercy hesitated to include in a balance sheet article summarizing the 37 billion tax changes to watch out for. “I do not
