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This increase will be lower than that recorded on February 1, 2023, specified the Minister for Transport. The tax on concession companies will therefore have no effect on prices, he stressed.
Bad news for highway users. Questioned on RMC this Wednesday morning, the Minister for Transport confirmed that motorway toll rates would increase, as they do every year, on February 1st. The increase will, however, be lower than inflation: after a jump of 4.75% on average in 2023prices will increase by less than 3% next year, declared Clément Beaune.
The “increase will be limited, less than 3%“, from February 1, he indicated, denouncing “poison» et «lies» on this increase. Last September, the announcement of a tax on motorway companies for “finance investment in the ecological transition and in rail» thus led to a standoff via the media between the government and private actors, who warned that this levy risked leading to an increase in prices. “An increase in taxes inevitably means an increase in tolls», warned the president of Vinci Autoroutes, Pierre Coppey.
In fact, this is not the case, replied Clément Beaune this Wednesday. This taxhas no impact on the evolution of tolls“. The words of “some highway companies» are therefore false: the increase “will be much weaker than last year“, on average, and the State will oppose companies that would be tempted to raise prices to incorporate this tax. “It is the State, which, in the end, takes a legal text which validates this evolution of tolls», affirmed the delegate minister, recalling that societies and the State were united by “contracts“. Talk about “pass-through of tax» therefore amounts to not saying the “truth“, he assured.
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