Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Economy, budget and taxes
24 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 10 · Campaign proposal or statement : 14
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Cap fuel prices to bring them to €1.70 per litre.
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Abolish the flat tax, restore a strengthened wealth tax and reduce tax and contribution exemptions deemed unfair.
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Restore CVAE business taxation for the largest companies.
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Apply a Zucman-style tax to wealth above €100 million and reform inheritance taxation.
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Introduce fourteen income-tax bands.
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Reform corporate tax, tax multinationals according to their French activity and strengthen digital taxation.
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Tax windfall profits and increase levies on financial transactions, share buybacks and crypto-assets.
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Rebuild tax-fraud enforcement staffing and end employer contribution exemptions above twice the minimum wage.
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Seek new ECB debt purchases for investment, then freezing or cancelling public debt it holds.
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Consider a modernised Treasury financing circuit to reduce market dependence.
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Finance sector plans through public budgets, targeted support and a public banking group offering loans, guarantees and equity within ecological planning.
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State a rounded total of €12 billion in additional annual state investment in this plan; detailed state rows sum to €12.01 billion.
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The plan states approximately €1.4 billion in annual state expenditure and €4.5 billion in investment from all actors; detailed rows sum to €1.37 billion and €4.47 billion respectively, requiring a presentation-rounding qualifier.
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For 2027, without a complete costing of the multiyear programme, set out €106.4 billion in new revenue, €81.7 billion in emergency expenditure and €24.7 billion deficit reduction; the stated aim is to stabilise debt/GDP within one term.
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Allocate the €81.7 billion emergency package between household incomes €37.5 billion, public services €22.2 billion, ecology €10 billion and social security €12 billion; banking investments are counted separately.
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Estimate revenue at €9 billion from abolishing the flat capital-income tax, €10 billion from a strengthened wealth tax, €22 billion from cutting exemptions and €3 billion from large-company CVAE.
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Estimate €15 billion from a Zucman tax above €100 million in wealth and €20 billion in the first year from inheritance-tax reform; detailed schedules are not supplied here.
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Plan a fourteen-bracket income tax during the term, without a numerical rate schedule in this document.
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Estimate €3 billion from corporate-tax reform, €5 billion in the first year from taxing multinationals by French activity and €3.9 billion from a stronger digital tax.
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Estimate €5 billion from windfall-profit taxation, €5 billion from financial transactions, €2.5 billion from share buybacks and €1 billion from cryptoassets.
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Rebuild anti-tax-fraud staffing for stated first-year revenue of €2 billion; end employer contribution exemptions above twice the minimum wage without a separate yield specified here.
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Prioritise a European coalition for new ECB bond purchases and freezing/cancellation of debt it holds; present a modernised Treasury funding circuit using the public banking group and financial actors in France only as a possibility.
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Restore graduated local taxation based on income and housing amenities.
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The PDF table sums to €12.06 billion from the state and €36.4 billion from the banking group/others annually, displaying a rounded €12 billion state total; HTML sums to €12.01 billion and €35.6 billion. No precedence between versions is established.
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Source Civique, « Jean-Luc Mélenchon — Economy, budget and taxes », https://sourcecivique.fr/en/candidates/jean-luc-melenchon/economie/, accessed [date] (version of 2 November 2026).
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