2023-08-25 05:42:15
While Transport Minister Clément Beaune has been talking in recent days regarding a new tax for motorway concessionaires as part of the 2024 finance bill (PLF), the latter intend to fight back.
“We are ready to go to litigation”, warned Pierre Copey, the boss of Vinci Autoroutes in The echoes. “We will do everything to enforce the law,” adds Eiffage. At issue: the possibility of a new tax for motorway concessionaires mentioned by the government in the context of the 2024 Budget.
Asked regarding France info Monday, the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune had reaffirmed the government’s desire to create new taxes affecting airlines and motorway companies, in particular to finance rail.
“We need to invest massively in the ecological transition,” he said. We must therefore “ask the most carbon-intensive modes of transport to finance investment in the train”.
The contracts in question
The dealers point out that the contracts signed with the State are their only assets, which therefore allows them to go into debt. Therefore, compliance with these contracts is crucial.
During this time the government is making the floor of the Council of State to find the fault. Clément Beaune’s cabinet explains that the current contracts do not provide for “the neutralization of any increase in taxation”. Furthermore, the Minister affirmed that the tax on motorway companies will not lead to an increase in toll prices.
On the side of the dealers, we are once once more surprised by the role of the Council of State, both judge and adviser to the government. Above all, we recall this short sentence pronounced by Emmanuel Macron in 2015 when he was Minister of the Economy: “the government is committed to the stability of the specific tax framework for motorway companies”.
At the time, the Head of State had assured that there would be “no specific royalty or taxation during the end of the concession period”.
Jean-Baptiste Has it NLC
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