Present in the candidate’s program since March 17, the measure desired by the candidate president was confirmed by government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Friday morning.
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Support for Emmanuel Macron’s electoral campaign, in Rennes, Thursday March 24, 2022.
In the “presidential project” edited by Emmanuel Macron’s campaign team, the proposal can be summed up in one sentence: “Allow all couples living together to reduce taxes as if they were married or in a civil partnership. The President of the Republic and candidate for a second term did not address the subject during his press conference in Aubervilliers on March 17, his team explained certain aspects of it in Le Parisien, three days later. Friday, March 25, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, in turn seized on Franceinfo.
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The idea is to “allow cohabiting couples to benefit from this tax system of the” tax household “even if they are not married or in a civil partnership”, declared Mr. Attal, close support of Emmanuel Macron. It would be “an option offered to couples”, not an obligation: “The French will look at whether it benefits them and, if so, will decide to do it. »
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Asked about the conditions to be able to benefit from it, he referred to the government and to the “Ministers concerned”, who will be responsible for “putting this measure in place” if Mr. Macron was re-elected. Asked whether people in shared accommodation could benefit from this possibility, Mr. Attal replied that “it is a right that exists in certain Anglo-Saxon countries”, with “conditions laid down”, for example “to prove that ‘We have been living together for some time,’ he explained, without being able to specify whether this would be a ‘condition retained for France’.
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Gabriel Attal defended “a measure of purchasing power”, declaring his taxes together which could make it possible to reduce the amount paid, thanks to the “marital quotient” of the “tax household”. It is also “significant progress for many French people”, which “takes into account changes in society”, with “couples who sometimes live together for a very long time and have not made the choice to marry or even pacs”.