Overview
- The Finance Bill returns to the National Assembly with committee debates on 8–9 January and a second reading in the chamber starting 13 January.
- Public Accounts Minister Amélie de Montchalin and Economy Minister Roland Lescure will meet parliamentary groups, excluding RN and LFI, to try to unlock an agreement.
- Roland Lescure says the government will re-table a surtax on large companies’ profits, a measure the Senate scrapped, to help forge a compromise.
- Officials say roughly €10 billion still needs to be identified to keep the 2026 deficit near 5% of GDP, with a vote targeted before the end of January.
- A special continuity law is financing the state while talks continue, and Matignon has signaled Patrick Kanner’s zero-interest mandatory loan on wealthy taxpayers could be revived as a potential compromise.