After raising the pension age and cutting taxes on the rich, now Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to scrap the Easter Monday and VE Day bank holidays. The plan is sure to face stiff resistance, with French workers unwilling to swallow further austerity.
  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    After … cutting taxes on the rich …

    Which taxes for the rich do they mean? The article doesn’t mention these tax cuts other than in the teaser.

    As far as I know, wealthy individuals in France earning more than 250,000 euros a year see a temporary increase in income tax accordong to the 2025 budget, and there is a minimum tax of 20% for those households only to prevent the use of tax loopholes. And for 2026, Paris plans what it calls a ‘solidarity tax’ for high income households and to close some loopholes altogether.

    I don’t think that the abolition of holidays is good, but this article appears to be extremely biased as it doesn’t tell the whole thing. Most points of the 2026 budget are not even mentioned.