The “Flash Mission” carried out at the Palais-Bourbon led to a disagreement between the “rebellious” rapporteur favorable to the creation of a national tax for companies having benefited from inflation, and the macronist one, which is there Hostile, in the government’s line.
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achieving a consensus seemed a little illusory. The “flash mission” of deputies responsible for flooring on the superprofits of companies that have benefited from inflation has not made it possible to achieve transpartisan conclusions on the advisability of setting up an exceptional tax, to which the government is also Opposed.
To work on this divisive subject, the elected officials of the finance committee of the National Assembly had chosen a curious team, composed of the Renaissance deputy David Amiel, former collaborator of Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée, and that of La France Insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, as part of a mission requested by oppositions. After almost a month of hearings with business leaders, analysts or unionists, each of the two rapporteurs made their own recommendation, Tuesday October 4.
The taxation devices chosen by other European countries, which the mission had the ambition to study, also gave rise to divergent analyzes. The two corapporters nevertheless share a “diagnosis”, according to which the profits of certain companies “can be qualified as exceptional in 2021 and in the first half of 2022”, admitted David Amiel, while Manuel Bompard quoted “Total, whose profit was multiplied by two on the first semester “or Engie, which had” the equivalent to the first half of its profit on the year before “.
each group should formulate its proposals
Unsurprisingly, David Amiel considers it preferable to rely on the European system under development in Brussels. The European Commission intends to constrain electricity producers to donate to the State the difference between their production price and the market price – knowing that France already has a mechanism of this type which must bring in 20 billion euros In 2023. The Commission also provides for a “temporary solidarity contribution” applying to producers and distributors of gas, coal and oil. It estimates the revenues that can be drawn from these two mechanisms at European level, which must still be declined in national law, at some 140 billion euros. “The good question is not so much the level of profits as the use made of it,” argued David Amiel, pleading for the profits released to become “super investments” in the energy transition rather than “super- taxes “.
Manuel Bompard for his part for the creation of a national tax on the profits of all companies whose profits increased by more 25 % compared to a reference period (2017-2019), and whose figure business is more than 750 million euros. This would be added to the European system, limited to energy only. He estimates the yield at 9.2 billion in 2021 and 20 billion in 2022. Large companies not paying corporate tax in France, such as the CMA CGM or Total shipowner, would be taxed on their sales , “as in Italy or like the GAFA tax [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon] in France,” he said on Tuesday evening. The recipes of these taxes, designed to be perennial, would be armed towards households and investments in the ecological transition.
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