The Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, said on Tuesday that he wanted to “continue to build a Marshall Plan for the middle classes” to allow them to “live better” from their work, the day after President Emmanuel Macron’s televised address.

“What the president is asking us (?) is finally to continue to build a Marshall plan for the middle classes in the months to come,” said Mr. Attal on France Inter radio.

“We have done a lot for the middle classes”, he underlined, referring in particular to the abolition of the housing tax, a reduction of 5 billion euros in income tax or the tax exemption of overtime. . “I believe that the president is asking us (…) to continue this action with measures to make a better living from his work.”

In addition to the possibility of additional measures for the purchasing power of the middle classes, this requires, according to Gabriel Attal, to act on the organization of work and to guarantee “better access to public services”.

“In addition to the purchasing power tax measures on which we must continue to move forward for those who work, we must also move forward on other issues, the meaning and organization of work,” he said.

“I believe that we can make France the country that has the best public services in Europe. We put the means into it in terms of budget”, he said again about the billions released for the hospital and education.

In his speech on Monday, Emmanuel Macron gave himself “a hundred days” to act “in the service of France” and relaunch his second five-year term mired in the crisis caused by his pension reform.

In addition to “a new work life pact”, the president promised to tackle illegal immigration as well as social and tax fraud.

Gabriel Attal indicated that he would present “in the coming weeks” a plan to fight against fraud “with strong measures”, such as doubling the staff of the Financial Judicial Investigation Service (SEJF).

Currently composed of 266 investigators according to the Customs website, the SEJF had notably participated in March in massive searches in banks in France suspected of tax fraud.

04/18/2023 11:21:12 –         Paris (AFP) –         © 2023 AFP