In search of revenue, the Barnier government plans to increase the tax on plane tickets. Objective, to collect one billion euros. The measure, which should come into force on January 1, 2025, was adopted Friday by the National Assembly by 99 votes for and 78 against. However, deputies made sub-amendments to the text, limiting the duration of the measure to one year and excluding the overseas territories and Corsica.
“By limiting this increase in taxation to one year and excluding overseas territories and Corsica, the deputies recognized the risks that such a measure could pose to the competitiveness of French companies, which are already in an economic situation fragile,” declared Benjamin Smith, general director of the Air France-KLM group, following the vote of the deputies.
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The National Federation of Aviation and its Trades (FNAM) also welcomes the improvement made to this project: “The signal sent by the vote on these sub-amendments constitutes positive progress reflecting a first awareness of the danger presented by the planned increase in the tax for the competitiveness of companies and the attractiveness of the country”, he reacted, protesting against this increase in the Chirac tax decided “without consultation and without the slightest impact study”.
“Air transport cannot reasonably support on its own and in the long term more than half of the additional “green” taxation on businesses in the 2025 Finance Bill, especially if these sums are not reinvested in any way. the decarbonization of the sector,” she denounced. “This additional imposition will ultimately lead to tens of thousands of job losses in France,” denounced the National Union of Airline Pilots (SNPL), which plans to go on strike on November 14.
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