2023-10-13 10:39:48
The Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, and the CEO of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné (right), in Paris, August 29, 2023. OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/MYOP POUR “LE MONDE”
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, does not like taxes. But the majority intends to extend the one that has weighed on oil tankers since 2022, and which the government itself had introduced by amendment in the 2023 budget, in order to cut short calls for a tax on superprofits in France. . The finance committee of the National Assembly, which is currently examining the finance bill for 2024 before the text arrives in the Hemicycle on October 17, adopted, Thursday, October 12, an amendment renewing this contribution for one year temporary which mainly weighs on refiners, and brought in 200 million euros in 2023.
It’s a kind of “ventral parachute if ever the prices [du pétrole] should start to rise againexplained, during the committee, the general budget rapporteur, Jean-René Cazeneuve, who defends the amendment. What is happening in the Middle East creates at least uncertainty”. Several similar amendments from oppositions were also tabled.
At the origin of the tax in the fall of 2022, Bercy is however much more cautious this year. Extending this levy is in fact threatening the measure put in place by TotalEnergies at the beginning of 2023, which caps a liter of gasoline and diesel at 1.99 euros in its service stations, warned the CEO of group, Patrick Pouyanné. The company announced in September: it will extend this cap “as long as prices remain high”. That is, if they exceed that ceiling again – which is not the case these days. “The government is asking to extend [ce plafond]indicated Patrick Pouyanné. But, if he also wants to put taxes on refining, I don’t know if we will extend it. »
“We will hold on”
Bruno Le Maire, who intends to place the burden of inflation as much as possible on private actors (distributors, agri-food manufacturers, oil and energy companies) rather than on the State, has therefore put on his slayer costume taxes. “As a general rule, I don’t really like taxes”he declared, Monday October 9, on Sud Radio, but “I also respect what parliamentarians [de la majorité et de l’opposition] tell us ». A way of distancing yourself, without however dissuading the deputies. “We did not put a tax in the budget, we add in her entourage. If Patrick Pouyanné decides to stop pumping and prices increase, what will we do? We managed to get a discount at the pump. We will see what the parliamentarians do. »
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