2023-07-28 17:20:49
Promised thing… The Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, confirmed this Friday the project to tax motorway concession companies and airlines more in the 2024 budget, in order to finance the ecological transition.
Asked about the idea of taxing motorway management companies, whose profitability has exploded in recent years, Clément Beaune replied: “Yes, I wish so”. “The Council of State told us that it is possible to request an additional contribution from motorway companies, in compliance with the contracts”, he indicated on France Inter.
“They can contribute to the national effort that we are making for ecological transition and purchasing power”, he added, specifying that the measure would be integrated into the 2024 budget presented in the fall.
The Minister also mentioned the air transport sector, whose prices are sometimes more attractive than the train over the long distance. He also announced “additional taxation of airline tickets”. “Not for fun”, immediately added the Minister, but because otherwise, “the choice between the train and the plane is biased”. “The plane has historically advantages”, such as the exemption from taxes on kerosene, underlined Clément Beaune.
“So we are rebalancing on the one hand, and on the other hand, if we want to finance all these investments, 100 billion euros (…) in the rail sector in France (more trains, a renovated network…), we need of these investments. Well, everyone has to contribute, motorway companies for example, and including air transport, ”recalled Clément Beaune.
The taxation of more polluting transport to finance massive investments in rail is an idea that is regularly debated in public debate. At the end of June, the president of the Transport Infrastructure Financing Agency (Afit), Patrice Vergriete, who has meanwhile become Minister Delegate for Housing, proposed taxing heavy goods vehicles and air transport.
In April, the CEO of SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou, also suggested using heavy goods vehicles, highways and airlines to finance the government’s 100 billion plan for rail by 2040.
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