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🇫🇷 France

Election watch

Presidential election: 18 April 2027; second round 2 May 2027.

Dates published by Service Public on 1 July 2026. Some overseas voting takes place the preceding Saturday.

Checked 2026-09-17. Selected sources, not a complete candidate list. The 2026 opposition budget and 2025 programme are not equivalent to final 2027 candidate budgets.

Government and alternative plans

Source documents for reference. A party's costing is its own estimate unless identified as independent. Different years, definitions and government levels are not directly comparable. These documents do not automatically change the simulator.

Adopted state budget · 2026

Loi de finances initiale pour 2026 ↗

Direction du Budget

Official enacted state-budget documents. State finances alone do not cover every local-government and social-security account.

Opposition budget proposal · FY 2026 · 23 October 2025

Contre-budget 2026 ↗

Rassemblement National parliamentary group

An alternative fiscal package with the group’s own revenue and spending estimates, using the then-proposed PLF 2026 as its comparison. Those estimates are not independently validated by this site.

Party programme · 2025 edition

L’Avenir en commun, édition 2025 ↗

La France insoumise

Programme linked by the 2027 campaign. It is shown as policy reference material, not as a verified, fully costed 2027 budget.

Historical document archive · Multiple elections

Browse original party manifestos ↗

Manifesto Project · WZB / IfDem

Use the document browser to select a country, party and election year. This is an archive of political programmes, not a set of audited alternative budgets.

Tax starting points

Income tax: 0–45% + high-income levies
Corporation tax: 25% general + applicable levies
VAT / sales tax: 20% TVA
Tariffs: Rates depend on the product, origin and trade agreement.

Resident progressive schedule for 2025 income, assessed in 2026. High-income contributions are additional. Corporate 25% is the standard rate; eligible small-company relief and additional large-company contributions differ.

Tax sources checked 2026-09-17. These are headline references; marginal rates apply to income bands, not every unit of income. Payroll contributions and allowances are not included in this compact comparison.

Income tax source · Corporation tax source · WTO tariff schedules

Pension schedules still marked “Not yet verified” are missing verified comparison data, not countries without pensions. Pension entitlements depend on contributions, age, residence and scheme.

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