Penalties for noisy two-wheelers, tax on share buybacks, strengthening of the tax on financial transactions: the National Assembly again adopted on Friday an anthology of taxes, under the leadership of the left and the RN and against the government's opinion.
Launched into a race against time to finish the examination of the revenue part of the state budget before midnight, the deputies adopted at the beginning of the afternoon an amendment proposed by La France insoumise aimed at creating a mechanism for tax on share buybacks by companies, up to 10%. They also approved an amendment presented by the president of the Finance Committee, Éric Coquerel (LFI), to strengthen the effectiveness of the tax on financial transactions, by broadening its base, increasing its rate and entrusting the recovery of the tax to the General Directorate of Public Finances.
Digital giants, feminization of companies…
Also adoption of an increase in the Gafam tax on digital giants from 3 to 5%, due to a heterogeneous alliance between the left, the RN but also the Republican Right; an “environmental harmonization” kilometer tax (with the votes of the RN and the left); or a tax representing 3% of payroll for companies not complying with the Copé-Zimmerman law on the feminization of company management.
More anecdotally, the adoption of an amendment from Aymeric Caron, related to LFI, establishing a tax of 50 euros per animal used as part of a scientific or educational research procedure, and that of an amendment from ecologists establishing a “noise penalty” on the noisiest motorized two-wheelers and three-wheelers. Or again, this amendment from Renaissance deputies authorizing beer brewers to sell without a license.
Alliances, tensions et divisions
The RN deputy Aurélien Lopez-Liguori succeeded in having, with the votes of part of the left, an amendment extending to Gafam the payment of tax on the turnover of electronic communications operators. An alliance castigated by the Renaissance deputy Pierre Cazeneuve. “All the great fighters in the fight against the far right, where are you? “, he shouted.
“For me, the French Republican right is not the extreme right. I think that a few years ago, you would not have made this kind of proposal”
A charge returned to him a few minutes later by the environmentalist deputy Benjamin Lucas-Lundy, after the discussion of two amendments brought by a Renaissance deputy and an LR deputy aiming to almost quadruple the stamp duty paid during naturalization applications, from 55 at 200 euros. These amendments, both rejected, tensed up the debates, with Eric Coquerel calling them “inhumane”, before Véronique Louwagie, the LR MP at the origin of one of them, became upset, saying take it as a “personal attack”. “I do not consider that you are an inhuman person,” declared Eric Coquerel in a desire for appeasement, while responding to him: “You tell me that it hurts you, but it hurts me, because for me, the French republican right, it is not the extreme right. “I think that a few years ago, you would not have made this kind of proposal,” he said.
Earlier in the day, a series of close amendments, this time wanting to significantly increase the tax on residence permits, had already inflamed discussions. They were rejected by a narrow majority in public ballots, suggesting a very divided government camp on the theme of immigration, supposed to be the subject of a new law initiated by the Barnier government.
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