The number 2 of the government has distanced itself from its Prime Minister, who did not close the door on Saturday to such taxation.
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Riffifi in the government? “I don’t know what a super-profit is”said Tuesday, August 30, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire in front of employers, while Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne did not rule out taxing them. “I know businesses have to be profitable, that’s all I know”added the number two of the government in front of a conquered public on the occasion of the REF, the summer university of the Medef.
Elisabeth Borne said on Saturday at Parisian that she didn’t want “close the door” to a tax on “super profits” companies, a claim from the left. But she added prefer that every company that can “lower prices for the consumer and give purchasing power to its employees”. In front of employers, Bruno Le Maire repeated that he had asked several companies that had made exceptional profits due to soaring energy prices or bottlenecks in transport or logistics “to lighten the bill for our compatriots”.
“I know that Total, CMA-CGM (shipowner, editor’s note), distributors, a number of other companies have already made efforts to redistribute what they have earned directly into the consumer’s pocket”, explained the Minister. For Bruno Le Maire, “taxing more in France means producing less in France”. The president of Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux had for his part judged on Monday that “biggest super profiteer”, “it’s the state.” “Tax revenue for the first half of 2022 increased by 27 billion euros”he thus advanced.
Without denying this figure, Bruno Le Maire rejected his analysis: “We cannot be blamed on the one hand for spending too much to protect households and businesses and on the other being told that we could have made profits in this area”. “What I see is that when you lower the corporate tax rate, revenue increases, proof of the effectiveness of our tax policy”hammered the minister to applause.