2023-09-04 13:39:29
The aviation sector shows the niche. While the government wants to introduce a new tax targeting the most polluting means of transport, French air transport has declared that it is “firmly opposed”. It “has not been the subject of any consultation”, castigated Pascal de Izaguirre, CEO of Corsair and president of the National Federation of Aviation and its trades (Fnam) on BFM Business this Monday.
During the Medef summer school, Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune confirmed that the next finance bill would include taxes on motorway companies and plane tickets. Last Tuesday, he repeated that taxing the most CO2-emitting means of transport would encourage a transfer, in particular to the train, and to invest more in the ecological transition.
Air transport “already bears a lot of taxes and fees, contrary to what is said”, launched Pascal de Izaguirre. This increase in taxation “comes on top of the project to increase the solidarity tax on plane tickets”, and augurs a further increase in ticket prices, added the leader of the sector.
Aiming for the decarbonization of air transport
On the price of a ticket for French or European domestic routes, “there are almost half already taxes and fees”, said the president of Fnam, while ensuring that the margins of the sector remained “extremely low »despite the resumption of activity and prices having risen sharply after the health crisis.
“If there are new taxes (…) on air transport, they must be directed towards the decarbonization of air transport, and not to finance (…) the SNCF”, pleaded Pascal de Izaguirre, recalling that his sector is was committed to zero net CO2 emissions by 2050, which will require massive investments in equipment and fuels of non-fossil origin.
Last week, Clément Beaune said that the tax increase would “also finance the 300 million euros per year that the State puts into the aeronautical sector to finance sustainable fuels (and) the green plane of tomorrow”.
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