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PROMISE the announcement is expected this Friday …

Lower taxes, episode 3. After the announcement of a tax measure for 2017 made by the Secretary of State for the Budget Christian Eckert Friday, the details of the amount of data that gesture by the Voices on Tuesday, it was the turn of the spokesman of the Government to speak about it.

the suspense should be long, because the government will announce “a measure for households” and “measures for companies,” said Thursday Stéphane Le Foll .

steps for households, but also for companies

“Very good question, which will find its answer tomorrow. Arbitrations are in progress “and will be made at the Elysee Palace before an announcement probably by the Economy Minister Michel Sapin in the day, said Stéphane Le Foll when the report of the Council of Ministers.

“There will be a measure for households. There will also be measures for enterprises, “said one who is also Minister of Agriculture, without elaborating.

According to the newspaper Les Echos , the government could favor a flat reduction in income tax for the middle class, a gesture whose amount would be about one billion euros.

a fall, yes, but how much?

François Hollande had spoken for the first time this tax cut on May 17 by conditioning the existence of “fiscal room for maneuver.” This will “have a perspective of growth of 1.7%” in 2017, he had specified, then evoking a maximum budget of two billion euros.

But INSEE announced late July 1 unexpected halt in growth in the second quarter (+ 0.0%), after a very good start to the year (+ 0.7% in the first quarter). And the outlook for 2017 has worsened, with the proliferation of terrorist attacks and uncertainties Brexit.

Friday, Michel Sapin said the tax cut would be less than 2 billion.

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