The debate on the green ISF was "too quickly" evacuated, judge Pierre Moscovici

Two weeks after the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry suggested taxing the richest taxpayers to finance the ecological transition, Pierre Moscovici ruled on Sunday that the debate had been "too quickly" evacuated by the government. “We must not bury this report”, insisted the first president of the Court of Auditors on Radio J. “I am not going to say that I agree with the tax proposal, it is not my role, but I find that we are evacuating the debate too quickly”, he regretted.

The Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu initially said that the debate was not "taboo". But the next day, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire had closed the ban by affirming that to finance the investments necessary for the ecological transition, taxes and debt were “not good options”. “We must have a debate on this question, we must not evacuate it out of hand,” commented his predecessor at Bercy Pierre Moscovici on Sunday. "I'm not advocating imposition, I'm saying 'let's have this debate completely and without taboos'," he added.

Pierre Moscovici's comments echo those of Laurent Berger. In an interview given Friday evening to the daily Le Figaro, the secretary general of the CFDT on departure lamented that the report is "already in the drawers when it should be on the desks." "The government is locked into its dogma of not wanting to make the wealthiest contribute, it's a mistake," slammed the boss of the first French union.

Still on tax issues, Pierre Moscovici warned on Radio J against tax cuts not offset by equivalent revenue or a reduction in public spending of the same magnitude. “We no longer have the means today for dry tax cuts”, he estimated, while the government has announced its intention to reduce taxation on the middle classes to the tune of two billion euros. euros.