The calendar is maintained and the course does not change. Prime Minister Jean Castex said Friday July 17 during an interview on France 2 that the timetable for the abolition of the housing tax for the richest 20%, planned for 2023, was "maintained" for the moment.

"We will continue at the same pace. So, the abolition of the housing tax according to the schedule will be maintained," said the head of government, while saying that "we will adapt according to the evolution of the conjuncture ", he said.

"The housing tax is a tax that goes down. The question could have been raised as to whether we were shifting the pace a bit" of the decline, he recalled. But "we do not think that the use of the fiscal weapon is a good tool to manage the crisis, that raising taxes is a good formula", justified Jean Castex.

Raising taxes is not a good answer to the crisis. pic.twitter.com/TsQ7yKM77D

- Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) July 17, 2020

Castex dispels the disorder 

By evoking the idea of ​​"shifting a little, for the wealthy (...) the abolition of the housing tax", during his interview on July 14, Emmanuel Macron had thrown trouble on a reform defended for three years by the executive as one of the axes of its action in favor of purchasing power.

Initially planned to be limited to the 80% of least affluent households, the abolition of the housing tax had been extended to all households after a call to order from the Constitutional Council. It therefore had to be phased out gradually for the 80% least affluent between 2018 and 2020, then in 2021 for all households, i.e. an effort of around 17 billion euros for public finances. 

This first calendar had already taken a hit with the postponement to 2023 of the total abolition for the wealthy - those whose income is more than about 2,300 euros for a single person - in the wake of the Yellow Vests movement.

With AFP 

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