On October 10, the government confirmed the increase in taxation on electricity during the presentation of its finance bill (PLF) for 2025. It only took one night to add a floor to the room climb. This Friday, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy, spoke of an increase in taxes on gas. “It is important to provide consistent price signals between carbon solutions and carbon-free solutions,” she explained. Translation: it would be paradoxical to increase the excise on electricity, the production of which is decarbonized in France, without doing the same for the excise on gas, a fossil energy – if it is indeed an excise whose we talk, the fog has not cleared.
The provision would go through a government amendment during the discussion of the draft budget in Parliament Which, implicitly, seems to support the thesis of urgency and improvisation at the time of completing the PLF. Revenue from an increase in taxes on plane tickets and gas is estimated at 1.5 billion euros.
Falling after 2022 records
The gas excise (the internal consumption tax on natural gas) is currently set at €16.37 per megawatt hour (MWh). It has already doubled at 1is January 2024 compared to 2023, marking the end of the tariff shield.
As with electricity, the government hopes that a higher level of taxation on gas will be more or less painless for the consumer. There is one reason for this: energy prices had skyrocketed in 2022 due to the consequences of Russian aggression in Ukraine. The decline in European markets then caused them to fall in France. This is how regulated electricity prices could fall by around 9% in February, despite an increase in taxation.
Gas taxation has everything to become an erupting subject during the discussion of the budget in the Assembly. It concerns many households with modest resources.
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