Thanks to the superprofits “Tax revenue from the first half of 2022 increased by 27 billion euros”, says Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
Le Monde with AFP
The idea of a tax on the superprofits of companies which benefit from inflation is debated in France, including within the majority. Elisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister declared, in an interview published on Saturday in the Parisian , not to be hostile to its principle, however more effective a decrease price volunteer by companies to protect the purchasing power of consumers.
The president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, castigated the hypocrisy of the government on Monday August 29: “Who is the greatest superprofer, if I dare? Who makes the greatest superprofits? State “, he said on France Inter . “Tax revenues from the first half of 2022 increased by 27 billion euros,” he said, explaining that it is “thanks to business superprofits”. “So, this is good news for these companies, for their employees, but also for the French, for the State”, according to the president of the first French employers’ organization.
.@geoffroyrdb: “The biggest super profiteer is the state: the tax revenues of the 1st half 2022 have increased… https://t.co/enkfzz6tht
Questioned that Great Britain has set up an exceptional and provisional tax on the profits of oil tankers, the president of Medef replied that “Great Britain has a tax rate which is 10 % lower than ours “. “The strength of French taxation for seven years now is to be stable and to have a clear signal of attractiveness,” said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, who must take a speech at the start of after -Midi before the meeting of entrepreneurs in France, the Medef summer university). “We have an economic situation which is worse than elsewhere, do not increase taxes,” he argued. >
Sunday, by closing the summer amphis of France rebellious in Drôme, Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared himself favorable to the proposal of the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, of a shared initiative referendum ( RIP) on the taxation of superprofits. To be launched, the RIP requires the support of 20 % of the members of the Parliament first, then of the signing of 10 % of the electoral body. In addition, the “rebellious” launched a petition so that the government taxes superprofits.