Bad news for backpackers. This Thursday, September 12, the Constitutional Council approved a new tax on long-distance transport infrastructure. This new tax is supposed to finance the ecological transition to the tune of 600 million euros per year. As our colleagues at Midi Libre explain, the tax only applies from a turnover and profitability: 120 million euros of turnover and a validated profitability threshold of 10%.
The first infrastructures concerned are motorways, which will be affected by three-quarters of the volume of the tax. The company Vinci Autoroutes estimated that the tax would cost it “280 million euros for the year 2024”. Opposed to this tax, the motorway companies threatened the government to significantly increase the price of tolls for 2025, in order to “offset this new tax”. As a reminder, the price of tolls is calculated on the basis of inflation and the investment plans of the motorway companies, and not at their own discretion.
The remaining quarter is devoted to the air sector, but only to the large airports, namely Orly, Roissy, Nice, Marseille and Lyon. “It is ultimately a drain of nearly 150 million euros per year on the airports concerned,” said the president of the French Airports Union, Thomas Juin. “This tax, this taxation which is increasing substantially, would have the consequence of reducing investment programs (…)
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