How can we maintain 60 billion euros of recovery, to hope to reduce the deficit to 5% in 2025, while satisfying the multiple demands of political groups? This is the puzzle of a government under the threat of the vote of a motion of censure coming from the left by the National Rally.
In the Senate, the LR group refuses the increase in taxes on electricity above its pre-crisis level carried by the executive. A shortfall of 3.4 billion that right-wing senators swear to compensate. Firstly by additional savings from the State, but also by an increase in excise duties on gas of four euros per megawatt hour. “The imperative of ecological transition cannot be satisfied with taxation on the most carbon-intensive energies that is so much more favorable than that on cleaner energies. A beginning of convergence must be started,” justifies the LR general rapporteur of the finance committee, Jean-François Husson. The measure, hoped for by the Minister of Energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, should bring in around a billion.
Except that at Bercy, we are still very reluctant about this amendment coming from a component of the “common base”. Because the drop in electricity market prices makes it possible to increase taxes while guaranteeing a reduction in the bill for customers at the regulated electricity rate on 1is FEBRUARY. Which is not the case for gas. “Increasing gas taxation amounts to a strain on the purchasing power of the French,” emphasizes those around the Minister of Finance, Laurent Saint-Martin. Is a compromise possible? “It is too early to say,” says Jean-François Husson, referring to the joint committee between senators and deputies. Marine Le Pen refuses any increase in taxes on electricity. A potential hole no longer of 3.4 billion, but of more than six billion in the budget…
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