Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux said he was opposed to these profits being taxed as demanded by the left.
It is the state that has reaped the most superprofits this year, said Monday the president of Medef Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, who said he was opposed to these profits being taxed as claimed by the left. “Who is the biggest super profiteer, if I dare, who makes the biggest super profits: it’s the state“said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux on France Inter.
“The tax revenues in the first half of 2022 increased by 27 billion euros“, he argued, explaining that it is “thanks to corporate superprofits“. “So this is good news for these companies, for their employees, but also for the French, for the State“, according to the president of the first French employers’ organization.
The Prime Minister not opposed to taxation
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said on Saturday in an interview with Parisian that she did not close the door to a taxation of superprofits, but that she preferred that each company which can “lowers prices for the consumer and gives purchasing power to its employees“. Asked about the fact that Great Britain has put in place an exceptional and temporary tax on the profits of oil tankers, the president of Medef replied that “Britain has a tax rate that is 10% lower than ours“. “The strength of French taxation for 7 years now is to be stable and to have a clear signal of attractiveness“, put forward Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, who must hold a speech at the beginning of the afternoon in front of the REF (medef summer university). “We have an economic situation that is less bad than elsewhere, let’s not increase taxes“, he still pleaded.