Thursday, August 20, 2015

Holland: “There will be tax cuts whatever happens in 2016″ – Le Parisien

August 20, 2015, 10:24 | Updated: August 20, 2015, 10:58

After promised a tax cut “if growth is increasing in 2016″ Wednesday in an interview with the daily Ebra the group published on Thursday, the President of the Republic visits Sassenage (Isère) stated that “there will tax cuts whatever happens in 2016.

To set the scale, it will depend on the growth we can achieve in 2016 “. François Hollande assured that the results of the first two quarters of 2015 allow to expect a growth of at least 1% this year, “it is more than in previous years and not enough to fight against unemployment, I don ‘ not meet these criteria. ”

The tax cut granted for 2015 according to the president should relate 9 million tax households. He recalled that the purpose of the tax cuts policy aimed at strengthening the purchasing power of French and consumption.

To generate further growth in 2016, Francois Hollande relies on energy transition and announces the launch of a “new wave” of tenders for solar projects. The government will also sign a “contract with territories positive energy” to “ensure that the territories are mobilizing,” said he added before a site visit Isère of a company, especially to attend demonstrations of hydrogen cars.

No way to recreate the environmental tax


 “France will host the conference on climate change, so it must be exemplary,” he said. The country is engaged in renewable energy and energy savings because “it is a growth issue, Environment and International Implications”.

 France must “be exemplary to be able to convince all countries to sign a climate agreement in Paris,” he said.

Asked whether a new environmental tax in particular to finance the energy transition, Francois Hollande assured: “It is not about creating a tax or additional tax.” “The energy transition must not be a pretext to raise levies,” he said, insisting: “I refuse.”

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