Maud Bregeon affirmed on Sunday October 13, on BFMTV, that there would be no increase in gas taxes. Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Ecological Transition, announced an increase on Friday, before being contradicted by the Minister of the Budget, Laurent Saint-Martin.
The government has resolved the question of the price of gas. On Sunday October 13, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon announced on BFMTV that there would be no increase in gas taxes. Vagueness remained on this issue since the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, said on Friday that the government would propose “an increase in taxes on gas“, via an amendment to the finance bill.
The next day, she had already been contradicted by the new Budget Minister, Laurent Saint-Martin. “I am not in favor of it“, he reacted on TF1. A position confirmed by Maud Bregeon, therefore. “There will be no increase in gas taxes, this is the government’s position“, she said. “This tax, the TICGN, doubled at the beginning of last year. If we increased this tax again at the start of 2025, it is the French who would pay the full brunt of the increase in this tax, which is not the case for electricity because prices have fallen.“
Gas less green than electricity, but less taxed
Yet less ecologically virtuous than electricity, gas will therefore remain less taxed. What raises questions about the government’s ambitions in this area? Maud Bregeon believes that “punitive ecology (…) is not the solution” and defends himself: “The energy transition must be accepted and acceptable and this cannot happen through money taken from the pockets of the French. There are 12 million French people who heat themselves with gas.“
The government spokesperson also affirmed that the electricity bill of 80% of French people who are at the regulated rate would “decrease by around 10% at the start of next year. (…) For the remaining 20% which are at market prices, they have in reality already benefited from the decline in electricity prices since the start. Which is not the case for those who are at the regulated rate.”
published on October 13 at 2:25 p.m., Emmanuel Davila, 6Medias
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