Hollande promises new tax cuts “if growth is growing” – TF1

François Hollande has promised further declines tax for French “if growth is increasing in 2016″. In an interview with the regional daily published Thursday Ebra group (Le Progrès, L’Est Républicain, Le Dauphiné released …), President returns at length about the country’s fiscal situation and development prospects in this area.

“If growth is increasing in 2016, we will continue this movement [of tax cuts] because the French must be the first beneficiaries of the results,” said the head of State. These tax cuts could then intervene in the vicinity of the presidential election of 2017, likely to see Hollande represent. “I measure the efforts that have been requested from the French in 2012 and 2013,” he says again, recalling that “first tax cuts in 2014 [...] had affected more than three million households” and a second “most important” had benefited “nine million tax households” this year.
“It is not about creating a tax”
Asked whether a new environmental tax, a surtax or diesel tax increase on electricity to finance the energy transition, Francois Hollande assured: “There is no question of creating a tax or additional tax ‘.

“The energy transition must not be a pretext to raise levies” he said, insisting: “I refuse.” For the president, “there is no question that taxpayers pay for waste and pollution which are not of their making.” “We created the carbon tax that applies to all fossil fuels (gas, gasoline and coal)” to “spread the load over each of consumer choice,” he recalls.

The Head of State also reiterates that costs 41 billion euros of cuts under his responsibility pact for businesses will be maintained, thus pushing a Claim slingers PS wishing that some of these cuts go to households. “This is the condition to enable businesses to invest and hire,” he argued. However, the elements may change within this envelope. “This will be discussed with the social partners,” he says.
Hollande argues about it for “stability in the policies for businesses and households have confidence” . “Therefore, the principles of responsibility pact will be preserved,” he insists. About state grants to local authorities, “we [...] highlight equalization [...] that is to say, solidarity,” he added further.

It is also, he said, to “support public investment because it is employment in construction” to “modulate the allocations based on investment committed “.