Elisabeth Borne said this Saturday in the parisian not “close the door” to the taxation of the “super-profits” of the companies, while it is preferred that it be the company that can “lower prices for the consumer and give purchasing power to its employees”.
“I do not close the door to taxing super profits,” added the prime minister, who will speak to Medef on Monday, at a time when prices are soaring around the world due, in particular, to the war in Ukraine.
“In the current period, everyone must be responsible”
“As a priority, I believe that the companies that obtain super profits must return the purchasing power to the French by mobilizing the measures voted at the beginning of August” such as the tripling of the purchasing power bonus, known as the “Macron bonus”, without social charges. or taxation, recalls the head of government who promises that she will be “attentive to what they do”.
Some companies “have already made commitments, we are going to make sure they are respected. In the current period, everyone must be held accountable,” he insisted. She, although she remembers that the Government has not “stopped lowering taxes” and that she is not going, in this sense, “to radically change her position (starting) to impose taxes on all companies.”
The taxation of “super-profits” is even debated in the majority, while MoDem deputies advocated in early August for a “reflection” in the fall on this point, referring in particular to a “flash mission” launched by the commission of finance. The First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure for his part announced on Friday that he was going to propose to his Nupes partners the organization of a shared initiative referendum on this taxation.
Green funds of 1,500 million euros for the ecological transition
Regarding the use of highly polluting private jets, which has sparked a debate within the government and which some ministers would like to regulate, Élisabeth Borne affirms that “owners of private jets must, like everyone else, participate in reducing the greenhouse effect of gases” .
Before the executives of the majority gathered in Metz on Saturday, he also considered “indispensable” “the exemplary nature of the most favored” but that it had to “be part of a global approach” and planned on ecology.
In this sense, it has announced the launch of a “green fund” endowed with 1,500 million euros for local authorities to “help them accelerate their ecological transition”.
Élisabeth Borne suggests using this fund for “the rehabilitation of vacant land to limit urban sprawl”, to “energy renovate public buildings such as certain schools”, to bring “nature back to cities” or even to install “relay car parks”. ” at your entrance. .
After the tariff shield, which ends at the end of the year, “we will maintain devices to cushion increases in energy prices. And we will take specific measures to support the most fragile”, assured the President of the Government.
Source: BFM TV
