2023-08-25 20:00:23
A report carried out by the General Inspectorate of Finance in 2021 revealed that the Vinci and Eiffage networks would present a profitability of 12%, an amount “much higher” than the level “targeted” by the State at the time of the privatization. motorways in 2006. Francois BOUCHON / Le Figaro
DECRYPTION – The concessionaire companies (Vinci, Eiffage, etc.) will do everything to avoid being subject to a tax, which must, according to the government, contribute to financing the renewal of the rail network.
Twenty years of privatization and as many trials of strength. Between the Contracting State and the concessionary companies (Vinci, Eiffage, etc.), relations have never been simple. For a month, they have been frankly conflicting. On July 27, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, confirmed his plan to tax concession companies more in the 2024 budget. superprofits » Motorway companies (and moreover taxing certain plane tickets more) to finance the investments necessary for the renewal of the rail network (100 billion euros).
Except that the motorway companies do not intend to let themselves be impoverished in favor of rail. ” We will attack. (..) The State cannot increase taxes specific to our sector without compensation “, stormed Philippe Nourry, the boss of APRR-Area, in the columns of theFigaromid-July. More cautious, but just as reluctant, the president of Vinci…
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