LGas taxation in the executive’s sights. The government will propose “an increase in gas taxation”, through an amendment to the finance bill, Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on Friday, October 11. Without providing further details, the minister thus gave clarification to the measure of taxation of “fossil fuels” mentioned the day before in the press kit for the draft budget.
“The challenge is also to work on brown niches through the increase in the automobile penalty, through the elimination of the reduced VAT rate of 5.5% on the installation of fossil fuel boilers and finally through government amendment, through an increase in taxes on plane tickets and gas,” she declared.
“It is important to provide consistent price signals between carbon solutions and carbon-free solutions,” she explained regarding these measures. “It is especially important to prevent public policies and public money from making carbon solutions less expensive than decarbonized solutions,” added Agnès Pannier-Runacher, with particular reference to the increase in electricity taxation. , essentially decarbonized in France due to the importance of nuclear power.
Increase in electricity next February
The government plans in its finance bill, presented Thursday, to increase electricity taxation to a level which makes it possible to “guarantee the consumer a 9% reduction in the regulated sales price in 2025 from 1is FEBRUARY “. The government is counting on the drop in electricity costs on the markets to absorb the increase in the electricity tax, which will mark the exit from the tariff shield put in place during the energy crisis from the end of 2021 to contain bills of the French.
This increase in taxation on electricity raises concerns among stakeholders in the energy transition who see it as a negative signal for the acceleration of the electrification of uses (electric cars, electric heating), going against France’s objectives. to get away from fossil fuels.ALSO READ Budget 2025: will your electricity bill increase?
The government’s plan to increase gas taxation also appears implicitly in the press kit for the finance bill under the heading “Measures by amendment (air tickets, fossil fuels)”. Together, these measures should bring 1.5 billion euros to the state budget, including one billion for the increase in taxes on plane tickets.
The previous government has already doubled in 1is January 2024 the excise on gas, one of the taxes paid by gas suppliers and passed on to consumers, which at the time materialized the end of the price shield on gas.
