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French lawmakers back financing for inflation-relief package

2022.07.27 08:34

French lawmakers back financing for inflation-relief package
FILE PHOTO: Price tags are seen as a woman shops at a local market in Nice, France, June 7, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard//

PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron’s government secured parliamentary backing for the financing of a 20 billion euros ($20.30 billion)inflation relief package and tax breaks, to help households cope with the cost of living crisis.

After the lower house approved the supplementary 2022 budget bill, it will now go to the Senate, which is dominated by the conservative Les Republicains party. It will then return to the lower house for final approval.

The lower house had already approved last week the inflation-relief package, which lifts pensions, temporarily caps rent hikes, and gives public sector workers a pay rise.

The supplementary budget bill allows for the increased spending and tax breaks to be financed by better-than-expected tax revenue since the start of the year, and which otherwise could have been used to reduce the budget deficit.

The bill, which foresees a public sector budget deficit of 5% of gross domestic product — unchanged from last year — includes a state-financed 30 euro cents per litre discount on car fuel. It also scraps an annual tax on owning a television.

Lawmakers did not approve an amendment that would have introduced a “supertax” on big oil and shipping companies that have benefited from high energy prices and shipping rates.

($1 = 0.9854 euros)

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