Questioned on the opportunity to set up a tax on possible “overprospel” that energy -to -favorite energy prices would have been more elusive.
Le Monde with AFP
The price shield on energy prices could be replaced by more targeted aid for modest French people next year, the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Saturday July 9 in Aix-en- Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône).
“We are not going to expose the most modest French to reckless increases in the energy price,” assured the government’s head of the press, gathered on the sidelines of the economic meetings of Aix. “If there was no shield” on the price of gas or ceiling on electricity prices, “electricity would be a more expensive third party, and the gas 45 to 50 %” more expensive, a -It she said. The Prime Minister added:
“We do not imagine asking the French, starting with the modest French, to pay their gas 45 % more expensive or their electricity a more expensive third party.”
However, given the cost of the price shield for the State, “we must go from general mechanisms to more targeted mechanisms”, judged Elisabeth Borne. “The work is underway,” she said.
a tax on possible overprosses “not completely simple”
The government has already announced on Thursday that a assistance targeted on people who take their car to work would take over in October from the general delivery of 18 cents on the price of the liter of fuel, which will gradually decrease then go out definitively in December.
Questioned on the opportunity to set up a tax on possible “overprosus” that energy would realize in favor of the sharp increase in energy prices, M me terminal s ‘is shown more evasive.
“On the principle of course, if there are people who draw overpros from the crisis, we would like it to benefit everyone and lighten the charges that the crisis can generate.”
“Afterwards, it’s not completely simple,” she immediately nuanced. “Many of our neighbors have put in place mechanisms to tax these overprofts”, but “we are not in the same situation” in France, according to her.
On the one hand, “EDF has production difficulties today in its nuclear fleet and is massively important” electricity from abroad, underlined the Prime Minister, who is therefore dismising existence “overpros” for the energy company. On the other hand, “we have oil companies that have distribution activities in France, [but] which do not give off superprofits”, according to M me terminal.