This device would “not necessarily” take the form of taxation, said the President of the National Assembly.
Divergences within Macronie on superprofits. Monday, on France Inter, the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet sided with the supporters of a contribution from companies “who have seen their profits grow exponentially” under “the effect of the situation“, but not necessarily in the form of taxation, she said.
“I think we have to look at how to restore more fairness and justice“, she explained, observing “that a number of countries around us are adopting tax systems“. Yaël Braun-Pivet took the example of Germany, after Bercy insisted on the fact that the “contributionof the energy companies that Berlin promised to support at European level was “absolutely not” a tax.
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“This issue needs to be addressed, we cannot do nothing and let this situation continue“Said the deputy of Yvelines. “Not necessarily in the form of taxation, but I think we have to find a device, an exceptional contribution, the feeding of a fund, I don’t know what“, she added. Noting that a fact-finding mission has been launched on this issue at the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet underlined that the Parliament would “be able to work on this issue“. “We can’t leave the situation as it is“, she hammered.
Terminal “does not close the door” to taxation
Within the government itself, the question divides. While Élisabeth Borne indicated at the end of August to the Parisian do not “close the door” to a taxation of “superprofits” companies, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire declared before the Medef last week not to know “what is a superprofit”.
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On the 2023 budget, which will be presented in the autumn by the government, the President of the Assembly has also not ruled out recourse to article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution, which makes it possible to engage the responsibility of the government to have a text adopted without a vote. Although she says she favors thedialogue» and the «consultation» before the vote on the text. “You have to try to convince, to build consensus to the end, but it’s not a tragedy if you use a tool that has been part of the Constitution since its origin“, she said.
Sunday, in The Parisianthe Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal indicated reaching out to the opposition in order to build the 2023 budget jointly, saying that he wanted to inaugurate the “Dialogues de Bercy”, consultations to which will be invited “all parliamentarians from the finance committees of the Assembly and the Senate, majority and opposition“. The Republicans (LR), the National Rally (RN) and La France insoumise (LFI) have already rejected this proposal, warning that they would not vote for the text anyway.