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The associations are worried after the evocation, in a report by the General Inspectorate of Finance, of a cap of tax reductions on donations which would bring 450 million savings to the State. An increase in taxes to which the French interviewed are not ready.
Help families fill their shopping bags. If food distributions can take place, it is also thanks to your donations: today, tax deductions can go up to 75%. For meals offered, for example, for 100 euros given, you actually only pay 25 euros.
But a report recommends reducing this rate to 66%, which for the same donation would make you spend 33 euros. In this case, would the French be less generous? “I would stop giving, downright”says a resident. “It annoys me that once again, we want to take a little more taxes”deplore a woman. A stroke of plane with direct consequences: the president of the Foundation for Housing, an association against poor housing which finances 97% of its projects thanks to the generosity of the public, is very worried. “The repercussion would be immediate”assures Christophe Robert, general delegate of the association.
Contacted by France Télévisions this Friday morning, the Minister of Public Accounts assures us that it is for the moment a work report, but not a government track.
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