France has around fifty ecological samples.
Emmanuel Macron is committed to putting the ecological transition at the center of his mandate. Knowing that environmental taxation is a particularly inflammable subject. France, in any case, already excels in this area, with more than 50 taxes supposed to modify the behavior of households. On the one hand, it is a significant financial windfall for the coffers of the State: this taxation enabled it to pocket some 56.4 billion euros after 40.3 billion in 2005. On the other hand, that “rolls the portfolio of individuals and companies“, denounces the association Taxpayers associated, in a study entitled “Ecology, the new El Dorado of the taxman”, which will not fail to arouse the controversy.
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Drawing up a fairly detailed inventory, Associated Taxpayers first cites the domestic tax on the consumption of energy products (TICPE) supposed to penalize the use of fossil fuels, the yield of which is estimated at more than 30 billion in 2019. The latter…
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