Inflation, fines: Bruno Le Maire’s statements for the start of the school year

A sensational return for a Bercy tenant. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire confirmed these claims during a speech during a factory visit at Alex in Haute-Savoie.

Dialogue against inflation

“Next week we will bring distributors and manufacturers together to take stock of the fight against the high cost of living,” Le Maire said, in particular, as the rising cost of living worries the French. “I indicated that inflation will start to slow down in the summer of 2023. We are already there,” he wanted to assure, referring to INSEE figures (for the year, food prices rose by 12.7% in July compared to 13.7% in June). ). He also announced the forthcoming publication of a “DGCCRF survey on school supplies prices” as the start of the school year approaches.

Dealing with unpaid fines

Bruno Le Maire also flexed his muscles on the “fixed fine problem”. According to him, the state will be able to recover only a third of the amounts due to it. “No one can understand (…) that you have hundreds of thousands of fines that are never paid by people who do not respect rules, rights or obligations,” he said.

And add that the government was going to “reorganize the fine processing chain, facilitate their payment as soon as possible, and make the information fed back to the General Directorate of Public Finance more reliable so that it can impose fines without delay.” non-payment of fines for all French citizens in all corners of the territory and at any time.

Announcements for employers

Finally, the Minister of Economy wanted to assure entrepreneurs that the tax system would be beneficial to them. “You can count on us to not deviate an inch from the only economic policy that has produced the best results France has known in 40 years: the supply policy,” he told the assembled crowd. Employers are really worried about the four-year extension of the company value-added tax (CVAE), a tax that was originally supposed to disappear in 2024.

Bersi also spoke of increased control over foreign investors, a “rapid” development of workers’ equity capital, and recalled, in his words, the need to “continue the reform of unemployment insurance.” At the same time, a decrease in the unemployment rate from 7% to 5% is on the horizon.