PARIS (Reuters) – Transport Minister Clément Beaune confirmed on Tuesday that there would be a “tax contribution” in France for the road and air sectors to finance the ecological transition, specifying that the modalities had not yet been decided.
“There will be a fiscal and financial contribution from the sectors that emit the most greenhouse gases (…) There will be two types of contribution, the contribution from the road and motorway sector and the contribution from the air sector,” declared Clément Beaune at the microphone of Franceinfo.
The government has not yet fully defined the modalities before the presentation of the Finance Bill for 2024 next week, added the minister.
“The contribution of the airline sector for several hundred million, that will be the case, the exact modality, direct or indirect taxation of plane tickets, is still under discussion,” added the Minister of Transport.
Les Echos newspaper reported on Monday that the government had abandoned the idea of increasing the tax on plane tickets and was instead considering tapping France’s main airports.
Clément Beaune reiterated on Tuesday the need to “make polluting modes of transport, mainly roads and planes, contribute to the ecological transition, to finance the train and to decarbonize”.
(Written by Zhifan Liu, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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