Bruno Retailleau
Economy, budget and taxes
20 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 9 · Campaign proposal or statement : 11
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Put the 2011 public-finance constitutional bill to referendum within 100 days under Article 89.
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Framework laws at least three years for state/social security/local government; binding spending ceilings and minimum revenue measures; no framework, no budget. Automatic constitutional review, Courtof Auditorsmonitoring, stability programme to Parliamentbefore Brussels. Procedure/legal interpretation not certified here.
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Target €197 bn savings by 2032,€146 bn for deficit reduction and €51 bn returned.
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Campaign scenario:deficit<3%2031,2.2%2032, primary surplus 2030; assumed end 2027 baseline 5.2% deficit/121.5% debt. Macroeconomic assumptions/yields unverified. Do not add 09-13 which repeats same envelope.
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Target €32 bn savings through private provision, policy review and ending ineffective schemes.
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€5 bn private provision, €13 bn reviewing three policies, €14 bn ending schemes; property/procurement, training, intermittent energy, immigration, cooperation, culture/media, transition, jobs/youth and tax niches. Detailed instruments not enumerated here, fiscal targets unverified.
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Extend tax asset freezes, cross-check records with AI and withdraw specified association grants.
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Large arrangements, fines indexed to profit/turnover and anti-fraud design of aid; grant withdrawal/recovery for illegal law-defiance or obstruction of authorised works.€8 bn target including €5 bnfraud/€3 bnassociations unverified. Illegal-conduct qualifier matters; not every critical association excluded.
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Allocate €146 bn of €197 bn to deficit reduction, with debt peak envisaged 2030.
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Same 09-02 scenario: 2.8% deficit 2031,2.2%2032, primary surplus 2030 and later debt decline. Campaign forecasts, not realised outcomes or a separate new envelope.
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Production-tax disadvantage: −60%.
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Fiscal golden rule.
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Claimed €197bn path, including €146bn deficit reduction.
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Fraud/abuse: claimed €8bn.
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No higher work taxes; campaign identifies the consolidated PDF costing as authoritative.
Note: Campaign answer with no publication date; it differs on some points from the detailed pages.
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Project €197 bn savings in 2032 under explicit macroeconomic assumptions.
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Growth 0.8%2027 then 1%; deflator 1.7%2027/1.6%2028/then 1.5%; baseline 5.2% deficit/121.5% debt end 2027.2027→2032 table preserved separately, not observed outcomes. A reference to a July 2030 mission in the justification appears later than the 2026 document, source hold.
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Target €32 bn reductions across nine state-scope categories.
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Property/procurement/IT 5; training 6; intermittent renewables 4; state immigration 3; cooperation 3.5; culture/media 2.6;Ma PrimeRénov 2; jobs/youth 1; niches/urban policy/zoning 4.9(€ bn 2032). Forecast rows, not completed cuts. Extends 09-04.
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Certify identity when entering aid schemes and generalise random checks.
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Rapid judicial confirmation of major-arrangement freezes, AI/all-tax/cross-border checks, profit/turnover fines.€8 bn 2032:2.7 freezes, 1.6 AI,0.7 aid/document net investment; associations 1 state/operators+1 tax expenditure+1 local funding outside remit. Withdrawal/recovery prioritises illegal conduct/obstruction under republican commitment contract.
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Fund €51 bn returned through savings plus €14 bn described as self-financing.
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Within 51:21 households/30 business; total 65 returned, 41 business/24 households including 14. Table: 15 employee contributions, 3 families/transfers, 3 Ma PrimeRénov/CEEVAT replacement, 15 employer contributions, 15 production;10 zero-threshold+4 CEE self-funded. Attributed framing;65 is not additional savings.
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Enact the fiscal golden rule through referendum and updated organic laws.
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Extends 09-01:2011 bill/referendum 100 days, ≥3 yearsthree-sphere framework, budgetreview, emergency/special-law tools said to prevent paralysis, organic laws updated for HCFP not present 2011. No certification of legal pathway.
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Reduce the tax disadvantage by forty billion euros with a five-year stability guarantee.
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Over €25 bn labour relief including zero threshold and employer contributions; nearly €15 bn production taxes. Abolish C3S and CVAE; retain 20% social levy on mandatory statutory profit-sharing, exempt incentive schemes, above-minimum sharing and individual retirement saving; exempt industrial CFE component. Protect research credit with abuse controls and cinema/overseas/social-landlord support. Not exemption of all social levies. Figures are campaign framing.
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Automatically defer productive-capital transfer duties until sale.
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Duties calculated on transfer but not payable while retained/operated/productive; sole businesses and real-activity company shares. Exclude passive asset/financial structures; holdings eligible pro rata operational activities; cash for investment/consolidation/industrial operations not a trigger. Deferral, not permanent abolition of all duties.
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Return gains half to workers and half to businesses under a €28.5–31.7 bn scenario.
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P 35 table: unemployment 12.5–15.7 (rules 4–5+exits 7–8+cross-border 0.5–0.7+cycling 1–2), CSU/fraud 10,corporate tax 4,RIA 2. Prose says at least 30 despite 28.5 lower bound. Around €500/year at median wage from first hour, €15 bnbusiness, threshold effects separate. P 38 claims €3,500=500+2,800 which sums 3,300; forecasts/examples, not guaranteed gain for each worker.
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Remove employer contributions on employee equity and secure capital-gain treatment for genuine risk.
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AGA/BSPCE/options for all firms regardless size/age; envisage flat tax on dividends/gains, rapid ruling based on accountant report validates performance multiple where capital at risk and shares retained. Table additionally specifies expanded BSPCE and 30% flat acquisition-gain tax, not all detailed in prose.€ bnsplit 0.8 gains+0.3 BSPCE+0.5 contribution+0.4 return/visa; no certification of zero net cost.
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Commit €23 bn gross over term including 11.6 new per campaign and publish targets/results.
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Table retained across 11 proposals, do not sum gross+new. First finance bill funding via redeployment/savings/BPI/CDC/Europe; recoverable equity described, not guaranteed returns. Targets engineers/compute/procurement/SMEs/productivity, decisions in days, quick 18-month results, structure 3–5 years, decade sovereignty. Term self-financing asserted without demonstrated annual inflow/outflow series. 0.5 procurement labelled new then no-new-spending, classification unresolved.
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