2023-08-21 15:44:24
Do not panic. Even if the government plans to tax motorway companies more, motorists should not be impacted at the toll. “Tolls are provided for by long-term contracts” between companies and the State and “if there is a tax, it has no impact on tolls” and will “preserve purchasing power” motorists, recalled the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune. “It’s not a good intention or an empty statement, it’s legally intended like that,” he said.
A possible additional tax on motorway concessionaires might be presented as part of the 2024 budget to finance the ecological transition and in particular investments in rail infrastructure, explained on France Info the Minister, who had in the past said that he was in favor of such a measure.
Same idea for planes
Clément Beaune also confirmed similar “discussions” regarding an additional airline ticket tax. This measure might also be included in the 2024 budget, presented at the end of September, and which will be “devoted to debt and deficit reduction, to a policy of employment and growth and to ecological transition”, according to the minister. “I am in favor” of the idea of strengthening the current “eco contribution” on flights, and this “not for the principle of charging more but to finance investments in the ecological transition”, indicated Clément Beaune.
“The idea is obviously that these taxes are differentiated according to the purchasing power of the passengers and according to the distance and therefore the ecological impact”, added the Minister, referring to “a major international flight in first class” on the one hand and “a little flight we do once a year for the holidays to go and see the family not too far away” on the other. “You have to sometimes have a little more expensive airfare to reflect its environmental cost,” he explained. Not to degrade purchasing power, but to finance investment, particularly in rail and allow cheaper train tickets. »
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