Faced with the billions spent to protect purchasing power, oppositions are growing to put large groups to use. The government refers the decision at the end of the year.
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The new assembly has just started its work when the first economic debates are emerging. Should we tax the “superprofits” carried out by certain multinationals in a context of high inflation and shortages, to finance the billions of euros that the government spends to protect the purchasing power of the French?
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, immediately postponed the idea. “Taxation of group overprofts is not necessarily the best solution. We prefer money to go directly into the pockets of the French rather than in the boxes of the State,” he argued in an interview with Echos, Wednesday June 29. “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.
Oppositions were rushed into the breach. The national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, announced on Wednesday, on Europe 1, that he was going to table a bill to “immediately lower 35 cents taxes on petrol” and to “tax exceptionally, On 2021-2022, the profits of oil companies, including Total “.
The La France Insoumise group (LFI), which must file, with the Nuts, a bill “to respond to the social emergency”, plans to include the “taxation of crisis profiteers”, “those Having made unusual benefits during the COVID years, “said the deputy (LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis Eric Coquerel. For the national rally, Marine Le Pen had proposed from the presidential campaign to tax the petroleum groups, described as “war profiteers”.
wishing not to increase taxes – the red line that the executive has set itself – Bruno Le Maire negotiates on a case -by -case basis. “We expect companies from concrete proposals that directly improve the purchasing power of the French,” said the Minister of the Economy. “How will people pay cheaper their full of essence if we tax Total superprofits? Better a discount”, do we slip in Bercy.
“Of course we can do “
Thursday, June 30, Totalenergies (ex-Total) also announced a “summer discount” of 12 cents per liter in July and August on the highways. It will be added to the 18 cents of government discount. The group “positively considers the idea of extending the delivery beyond summer, in conjunction with the government”. On Monday, Bruno Le Maire met Patrick Pouyanné, the boss of the oil tanker. The banking and insurance sector has also been surveyed, we assure Bercy, as well as the CMA CGM shipowner, who was asked “a gesture for the transport of the building’s raw materials”.
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