He wants to support dog and cat owners in the face of inflation. Aymeric Caron, LFI deputy, proposed on Thursday an amendment to the 2025 budget bill currently debated in the National Assembly, so that each owner of a domestic animal benefits from a tax credit of thirty euros per month per animal , as spotted by Huffington Post.
On he pointed out. “55% of French people own a dog or a cat,” he added.
“Strange priority”
His amendment was rejected by the deputies. “We have reached the pomp of the pomponette… I think you have lost your mind,” chokes the centrist deputy Erwan Balanant. “Strange priority. No offense to our animal friends,” says EPR MP Denis Masséglia ironically, recalling that the NFP wishes, conversely, to “reduce the personal services tax credit”. “Aymeric Caron is proposing a tax credit for owners of dogs and cats (forgetting mosquitoes!), after having voted to eliminate the tax credit on personal aid. Cost of his joke: 6 billion euros,” squeaks Ciottist MP Gérault Verny.
One of the two co-rapporteurs of the text on the budget, Charles de Courson, calculated that the cost of this tax credit would be 750 million euros for public finances. The co-rapporteur and deputy LIOT then took the example of Germany, where dogs are taxed and where this measure brought in 421 million euros in 2023. An idea which should attract the attention of parliamentarians and above all of the government, which seeks to reduce the public deficit.
