The communist deputy announced on Wednesday the deposit of this bill while the executive considers to have in mind a more “effective” measure, by imposing a drop in the pump.
Le Monde
The leader of the Communist Party and deputy of the North, Fabien Roussel announced, Wednesday, June 29, at the microphone of Europe 1, that he was going to table a bill to “lower the taxes immediately 35 cents On essence “and to” tax the profits of oil companies “.
“I will table today a law aimed at immediately decreasing 35 cents taxes on petrol, we are a few days old on vacation, the liter of petrol flirts with the 2.30 euros, 2.50 euros is unbearable for many of our fellow citizens, including for workers who need their car to go to work, “he explained to the radio morning, before clarifying that this bill would propose “at the same time to tax exceptionally on 2021-2022 the benefits of oil companies, including total”.
According to him, the National Assembly has the power to implement this measure “immediately” and that is the reason why it “refers the ball to the Prime Minister and to the President of the Republic”. “Instead of wondering if we are ready to participate in a government, I ask them:” Are you ready to support such a bill? “” Added Mr. Roussel.
l ‘Executive prefers to put pressure on large groups
“We are going to ask for an effort from the oil tankers to lower prices at the pump,” said on Wednesday, on France 2, Clément Beaune, the Minister Delegate in charge of Europe. For the moment, “there is no question of establishing a tax,” he added, when Mr. Attal judged, on the line of Bruno Le Maire, that a tax on “superprofits” would not be the most effective or fastest measure.
“No arbitration is taken [on the subject,] we are looking at, that is typically part of the things we discuss with the oppositions at the moment,” said, on his side, on BFM-TV, government spokesperson Olivia Grégoire. The latter is said to be, however, “very sensitive to the argument” defended by Bercy: “We want these discounts and these discounts directly to the pump on the price of the liter rather than going through the State by a tax that he must then redistribute. “
In an interview granted Aux Echos published this Wednesday, Bruno Le Maire said that the government was waiting Companies “concrete proposals that directly improve the purchasing power of the French”. “We are chatting with Total, as well as with the CMA CGM carrier, (…) We prefer that money goes directly into the pockets of the French rather than in the boxes of the state,” he said. At the microphone of France Inter on Wednesday, Gabriel Attal again specified the idea of the government. “Go through a tax, go through the tax that the State will take, it takes much more time than asking these companies to put in place measures in favor of the purchasing power of the French.”