Retirees could finally escape a tax increase next year. This Tuesday, October 21, the members of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly adopted several amendments deleting article 6 of the draft finance law (PLF) for 2026. As a reminder, this article of the draft budget plans to reform the 10% tax reduction granted on retirement pensions. More precisely, it intends to eliminate this deduction, comprised between a minimum of 450 euros and a ceiling of 4,399 euros in 2025, and replace it with a flat-rate reduction of 2,000 euros per member (retired) of the tax household. A measure likely to penalize certain retireessuch as single people who receive a pension of more than 20,000 euros per year or couples who accumulate 40,000 euros in pensions.
If Together for the Republic, through the voice of the deputy for Eure-et-Loir Guillaume Kasbarian, defended the reform of the tax reduction, the latter judging that removing article 6 was not “not very serious” given the situation of public finances, the numerous oppositions to this controversial measure prevailed. Several deletion amendments, carried by the RN, LFI, the Republican Right and the Union of Rights for the Republic, were thus adopted, bringing down article 6 of the 2026 budget.
Towards a reduced or combined tax advantage?
It now remains to be seen whether the removal of the reform of thetax relief for retirees will also be adopted in session, during the examination of the PLF 2026 which is due to begin on Friday October 24 in the Hemicycle. One thing seems certain: replacing the 10% reduction with a flat-rate deduction of 2,000 euros per retiree should ultimately not be retained, given the opposition to this measure.
And in particular that of the general budget rapporteur, Philippe Juvin (Republican Right), who for his part proposed to “keep the 10% reduction but lower the ceiling to 3,000 euros (compared to 4,399 euros, editor’s note), for a budgetary gain of 900 million euros”. Or even the deputy for Marne Charles de Courson (Liot), who pointed out a dangerous side effect: “If you remove the 10% deduction, this has an impact on the reference tax income and this has a consequence for the benefits of non-taxable people. I propose that we keep the 10%, with a ceiling of 4,400 euros for couples, but that we combine this ceiling, to 2,200 euros for singles. So many measures which were not examined in the Finance Committee this Tuesday, October 21, Article 6 having therefore been deleted. But which should very soon animate the debates in the Hemicycle.
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