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Un trésor de 11 milliards d’euros ?

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  • Henri Sterdyniak

    (OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po)

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According to several recent analyses, French pensioners benefit from tax expenditures of around €11 billion; abolishing these tax deductions would allow to finance pensions and long-term care expenditures. The paper shows that tax expenditures benefiting pensioners (€12.5 billion euro, i.e. 1,375 euro per household) are similar, accounting for the number of people concerned, to those benefiting people of working age (€25.7 billion, 1,600 euro per household). The government could only raise €1.8 billion by increasing the CSG rate on pensions and by taxing pensioners'family benefits. But fairness would require to re-introduce simultaneously wage indexation of pensions (which would cost €10.4 billion). Besides, €90 billion additional spending are needed to maintain the French current pension system and to finance the growing burden of long-term care.

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  • Henri Sterdyniak, 2010. "Un trésor de 11 milliards d’euros ?," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03461675, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:spmain:hal-03461675
    DOI: 10.3917/reof.115.0015
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    Keywords

    Impôt sur le revenu; Dépenses fiscales; Retraites;
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    JEL classification:

    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies

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