The Prime Minister said on Saturday not wanting to “close the door” to such a measure. “I don’t know what a superprofit is,” said the Minister of the Economy, in front of a conquered audience at the Employer Summer University.
Le Monde with AFP
“I do not know what a superprofit is,” said the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire before the employers on Tuesday, August 30, while the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, N ‘had not excluded to tax these superprofits. “I know that companies must be profitable, that’s all I know,” added the number two of the government before a conquered audience on the occasion of the ref, the Medef summer university.
For her part, Elisabeth Borne had declared, Saturday, in an interview to the Parisian Do not want to” close the door “to a taxation of” superprofits “of companies , a claim from the left. But she added preferred that each company that can “lower prices for the consumer and gives purchasing power to his employees”.
In front of employers, Bruno Le Maire repeated that he had asked several companies having achieved exceptional profits because of the outbreak of energy prices or bottlenecks in transport or logistics “D ‘lighten the bill of our compatriots “.
” Tax more in France is to produce less in France “
“I know that Total, CMA-CGM [shipowner], distributors, a number of other companies have already made efforts to redistribute what they had won directly in the consumer’s pocket,” said the Minister, for whom “tax more in France, is to produce less in France”.
The president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, had, for his part, judged on Monday that “the greatest superprofer (…) is the state”. “The tax revenues of the first half of 2022 increased by 27 billion euros,” he said, thus advanced.
Without denying this figure, the Mayor rejected his analysis: “We cannot blame us, on the one hand, for spending too much to protect households and businesses and, on the other, tell us that We may have made profits in this area. “