The Chamber continued the debate on the 2025 state budget bill 8444 and the multiannual financial programming bill 8445; Sam Tanson tabled motion 1 asking the government to channel under-estimated extra revenue into the intergenerational sovereign fund, and the Chamber rejected it by 42 votes to 16 with 2 abstentions.
During the debate on budget bill 8444 the parties argued over the government's tax policy: the inflation adjustment of the tax table, the cut of the corporate tax rate by one point voted the week before, tobacco excise duties, and the level of the top rate.
Housing was one of the main lines of the budget debate on bills 8444 and 8445: the opposition attacked the cut in the multiannual money for affordable housing, the extension of the accelerated depreciation and the registration-duty measures for investors, while the CSV and the finance minister defended the demand-side package.
Sam Tanson tabled motion 2 asking the government to evaluate, after six months, the new electricity network tariff structure and the halving of the price cap; the Chamber debated the independence of the regulator ILR and rejected the motion by 40 votes to 20.
In the debate on the 2025 budget the opposition argued that the climate and environment fund and the multiannual climate spending are stagnating, and the finance minister answered with execution figures for the climate fund.
The budget rapporteur had made artificial intelligence the theme of her report, and speakers used the debate on bills 8444 and 8445 to assess Luxembourg's position in AI and digitalisation, from the MeluXina AI factory to the digitalisation of justice.
Speakers from the majority linked the budget's revenue to the financial centre, announcing the crypto-asset rules and the bill 8425 on a control agent for dematerialised securities, to be voted the next day; the finance minister set out the sector's weight in corporate tax receipts.