Bruno Retailleau
Business, banking and consumers
21 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 14 · Campaign proposal or statement : 7
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Abolish or narrow 100 production rules through ordinances and constitutional amendment.
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Only ten examples here: 50-worker threshold raised to 100; safety means rather than outcome duty; works council at 50 unless agreement; remove BDESE below 250; new auto rules only for new models; moratorium on AGEC beyond EU;EU-aligned ICPE; remove PTGE and designate farm reservoirs major public interest; non-intentional error non-fault; replace precaution. Full list promised in technical note, still requiring reading. Summer 2027 enabling act and ongoing departmental simplification. Claimed zero cost unverified.
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Defer productive-business transfer duties until disposal or liquidation.
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Duties assessed at transfer, not exempted; companies and sole traders; holdings proportionate to operating interests. Automatic without approval while genuine activity continues; investment cash not a trigger. State cashflow deferral, not proven revenue neutrality.
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Cut labour and production taxes by around €40 bn according to the campaign.
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Over €25 bn labour, near €15 bn production: abolish C3S€5.3 bn, CVAE€4.3 bn; social levy reform €2.8 bn; industrial CFE relief €1.9 bn. Keep 20% levy on mandatory profit-sharing, exempt incentive/extra-statutory sharing and individual retirement saving. Protect research tax credit with anti-abuse review and five-year tax stability. 60% disadvantage reduction/funding claims unverified; avoid double-counting repeated envelopes.
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Limit business penalties to intentional fraud, except a narrow core of rules.
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Prompt proportionate correction of unintentional errors; administration bears proof; leaders liable only for serious established fault; proportionality training, binding doctrine and advice before penalties. Exception-core list not supplied here.
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Create a €600 m/year France Production Fund for industrial-equipment modernisation.
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Regional management; claimed funding €200 mstate+€200 mregions+€200 m EU. Enhanced tax depreciation, site extensions and prefectural brownfield inventory. Priority smaller automation/robotics/precision projects with measured gains. Annual regional audit review determines next state allocation. Funding availability/approval unverified.
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Inventory brownfields within two years and combine vacancy penalties with a 30% decontamination credit.
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Record pollution/use; environmental/planning exemptions, overriding public interest and end direct grants. Penalty €3000/ha first year rising with vacancy, used for ownerless brownfields; claimed €50–100 m revenue/€80 m credit cost unverified. Target 15000 ha/ten years; single prefect, nine-month approval-by-silence, one-for-one compensation, neutralise industrial ZAN. Regional public land companies below 2 ha and industrial land company keeping 1000 ha ready, claimed self-financing without public support.
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Direct savings towards businesses and open a voluntary supplementary retirement account for every worker.
Different versions: Two versions published by the campaign: a voluntary supplementary retirement account (page updated 11 September 2026) and an individual account funded by a 1% contribution on pay (page updated 15 October 2026). Both are shown with their dates.
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Simplify products and long-term tax incentives; incentive/profit-sharing/voluntary flows, no diversion of pension contributions or reduction of pay-as-you-go pensions proposed. Joint governance and diversified prudent transparent real-economy investments. Individually owned, voluntary membership; eventual productive-capital target around €1 trillion, no guaranteed return.
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Direct part of savings to company equity and to a voluntary supplementary pension.
Different versions: Two versions published by the campaign: a voluntary supplementary retirement account (page updated 11 September 2026) and an individual account funded by a 1% contribution on pay (page updated 15 October 2026). Both are shown with their dates.
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Simpler products, long-term tax incentives, flows previously towards public debt/social housing. Account for each worker, funded through incentive/profit-sharing/voluntary savings, jointly managed diversified prudent transparent investment. Eventual €1 tn productive-capital target; details deferred. This booklet says voluntary, whereas October pension pages add a 1% contribution for all employees.
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Remove employer levies on employee equity and secure capital-gain treatment through tax rulings.
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Overlaps 10-03. Employees/leaders must take genuine capital risk and retain shares; no wage reclassification, rapid accountant-based ruling validates performance multiple. Limited immediate cost/value retained in France are unquantified unverified claims.
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Ease business succession.
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France Production modernisation fund.
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Direct savings towards businesses.
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Ease intergenerational transfers.
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Remove employee-shareholding tax.
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Finance AI businesses.
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FAQ adds first-hire contribution cuts and payment-deadline enforcement without detailed parameters.
Note: Campaign answer with no publication date; it differs on some points from the detailed pages.
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Remove or narrow fifty rules upon election and organise annual simplification.
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Political target: eliminate trade deficit in five years. Table examples: remove non-regression; raise 50-worker threshold to 100 for all duties; safety result obligation to means; precaution to responsibility; CSE 11 to 50 unless agreement; remove BDESE below 250; car standards only for new models; moratorium on AGEC/plastics/PFAS beyond EU; align ICPE with EU; remove PTGE and make agricultural reservoirs overriding public interest. Departmental review, circular revisions and annual single-article bill with annexes. Booklet says 50, later HTML 100; technical list not included.
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Create an independent veto authority and offset each euro of new regulatory cost with one removed.
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Binding independent assessment, SME test, cost-benefit before executive or legislative economic rules; local state-supervised adaptation; statutes limited to principles. No national additions beyond EU requirements; Brussels monitoring cell, early mobilisation and oversight of trilogues/delegated acts. Dutch figures remain campaign arguments.
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Limit sanctions to fraudulent intent except for a narrow core and change inspection practice.
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Unintentional mistakes promptly regularised; proof mainly with administration; directors liable for serious established faults; binding doctrine, reasoned sanctions and actual-risk targeting; preventive labour-inspection advice and proportionality training. Not immunity for every mistake or offence.
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Create a €600 m annual France Production Fund and mobilise industrial land.
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Region-led, state/EU co-funded, smaller robotics/automation/precision investments with measurable gains; annual regional audit-court evaluation conditions next allocation. Separate enhanced tax depreciation. Claimed need for 25,000 ha to gain three industrial GDP points over ten years; adjacent extensions might yield 10,000 ha, not land already secured. Prefectural brownfield register, remediation decree then overriding public interest/simplified processes and limits on delaying challenges.
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Deploy Starter Pack AIand 100% enhanced depreciation over three years for productive investment.
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Midcaps/larger SMEs with Frenchintegrators/service firms/regions for testing/deployment/training; mainly business funding, possible BPI/France Production Fund €600 m/year already in industry. Software/licences/models/platforms/servers/processors/sensors/robots covered.€3 bnalready-fund+0.2 new coordination, tax expenditure elsewhere; no-upfront-cash wording does not establish immediate reimbursement machinery.
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Source Civique, « Bruno Retailleau — Business, banking and consumers », https://sourcecivique.fr/en/candidates/bruno-retailleau/entreprises/, accessed [date] (version of 1 November 2026).
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