According to the group’s findings, French households’ disposable income will increase by €252 on average under the new budget, but these financial gains will be unevenly distributed across different sectors of society. PPI graph showing how France's 2020 budget affect disposable income for different salary brackets. PPI graph showing how income tax reductions will benefit workers in different salary brackets. The richest and the poorest, on opposite ends of the wage spectrum, will benefit the least from the 2020 budget according to IPP. Unfortunately, the poorest 20 percent of the country will only see its disposable income rise by 1 percent between 2018 and 2020, roughly the same percentage as for France’s biggest earners but quantitatively a world apart.

Source: The Local October 17, 2019 13:18 UTC