Replace business aid with lower contributions?

The idea: fewer schemes, lower general contributions

Remove poorly justified sectoral grants, tax relief and special schemes, then recycle verified savings into lower general business levies.

Do not treat €211bn as cash

No double counting. The Senate report stresses that business aid has no single transversal legal definition. The broad perimeter may include tax expenditures and social-contribution reductions that are already lower taxes rather than cash spending.

Conversion ledger

Every measure must be classified as budget subsidy, tax expenditure, contribution relief, loan or guarantee before any claimed saving is recycled.

: lower general contributions instead of a subsidy maze

The target is a common architecture rather than sector-by-sector exemptions: zero employer payroll contribution where there is no employee, one main employer contribution where payroll exists, and one personal contribution for professional income drawn by active owners and self-employed workers. Final rates remain subject to financing microsimulation.

Universal social protection: full doctrine →

Official sources and reference documents

French Senate — report 808