While the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, had mentioned the increase in gas taxation among the solutions to find revenue, the Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, said opposed to this measure which he considers unnecessary.
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– On the set of TF1, he explained that he was “not in favor” of an increase in taxes on gas.
A position taken, then another which comes contradict. While the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, mentioned on Friday October 11 amendments on the increase in gas taxationit was not the same for the Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin, Saturday October 12. As explained West Francethe minister placed himself in clear opposition to this statement of its counterpart.
On the set of TF1, he explained that he was not “not favorable” to a augmentation gas taxation. More precisely, he highlighted that the finance bill presented this week “does not contain an increase in taxes on gas” and declared that he was not “not favorable” to this eventuality. Friday, during a press point, the Minister of Ecological Transition highlighted points on which the government was working to find money coming in.
Every year, 400,000 people are affected by the increase in taxes on gas boilers
Gradually put an end to the tariff shield
“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 taxation on plane tickets and gas”relayed AFP. “It is important to provide consistent price signals between carbon solutions and decarbonized solutions”she had thus justified.
In its project, recalls the regional daily, the government also wishes to increase electricity taxation at a level that allows “guarantee the consumer a 9% reduction in the regulated sales price in 2025 from February 1.” The drop in electricity costs on the markets, predicts Laurent Saint-Martin, will absorb the bearing of the tax. To, little by little, get out of the tariff shield put in place during the energy crisis, at the end of 2021.
