Budget Minister Laurent Saint-Martin said he was “not in favor” of an increase in gas taxation on Saturday on TF1, while Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on Friday that the government was going to propose it via an amendment to the finance bill.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher “said that there would perhaps be amendments on the increase in gas taxation,” said Laurent Saint-Martin on Saturday. He observed that the finance bill presented this week “does not contain an increase in gas taxation” and declared that he was “not in favor” of this possibility.
Friday during a press point, Agnès Pannier-Runacher indicated: “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 by government amendment, through an increase in taxes on plane tickets and gas.”
“It is important to provide consistent price signals between carbon solutions and carbon-free solutions,” she explained.
“It is especially important to prevent public policies and public money from making carbon solutions less expensive than decarbonized solutions,” added Agnès Pannier-Runacher, with particular reference to the increase in electricity taxation. , essentially…
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