The government plans to strengthen the fight against tax optimization to finance measures on high schools

Strengthening the fight against the abuse of tax optimization could be an avenue to compensate in the 2027 budget for the first measures of the plan announced Monday in favor of high school students and students, declared Tuesday October 27 the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, David Amiel. “The government had put on the table measures to combat the abuse of tax optimization against certain niches in its initial text, and obviously these measures, particularly [concerning] the most fortunate, could be further strengthened” during the budgetary debate, he declared on TF1. Read also • Direct Mobilization of high school students: "Work must resume on Monday", urges the Minister of Higher Education He was responding to a question on how the government intended to maintain its public deficit objective of 5% of GDP in the 2027 budget while including the first announcements made on Monday in favor of students and high school students, in particular a billion euros for university renovations and additional teaching positions.

“Last year, the political compromise was made around the suspension of the pension reform, I find that it is better news if this year we tie it for the youth,” he declared. Also read Where are the debates on the PLF and the PLFSS 2027? Follow the stages of the budget examination in the Assembly and the Senate The inclusion in the budget of the first measures announced Monday "will have to be financed by additional efforts: we cannot promise with one hand to the youth and with the other strangle them with additional debt" to be repaid, considered the minister, repeating that the objective of 5% deficit next year was "intangible".

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