Tag: superprofits
The Assembly narrowly rejects a tax on superprofits
The National Assembly narrowly rejected on Saturday the idea of a tax on the “superprofits” or “exceptional profits” of large multinational goods transport or oil companies, despite protests from the…
The National Assembly narrowly rejects a tax on superprofits
Opposition MPs wanted to introduce an “exceptional tax of 25% on the superprofits” of the various companies, oil and gas, maritime transport or motorway concessionaires. The National Assembly on Saturday…
Calls for an exceptional tax on “superprofits” are increasing, the government still reluctant
At a service station in Nice, October 20, 2021. SYSPEO/SIPA / SYSPEO/SIPA Pressure was mounting on the government, Thursday, July 21, to involve companies that have made large profits thanks…
soon a new tax on oil superprofits?
The president of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, said on Tuesday that he had no hostility to making a greater contribution from the oil companies to bring down prices at…
Taxation of superprofits, price freezes… The hot issues awaiting MPs
By Manon Malhere Published on 07/17/2022 at 20:35, Update yesterday at 11:05 Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq, MP for the North and rapporteur for the bill on purchasing power. Lafargue Raphael/Lafargue Raphael/ABACA STORY…
Some elected LRs ready to consider a “tax on superprofits”
While the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire castigates the “financial madness of the opposition, tempted to add support measures for households in the purchasing power “package” soon to…
the temptation to tax corporate superprofits
The new Assembly had barely begun its work when the first economic debates emerged. Should we tax the “superprofits” made by certain multinationals in a context of high inflation and…
“The Johnson government does not rule out, in defiance of Liberal propriety, taxing the superprofits of energy suppliers”
During Questions to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the House of Commons, in London, on May 18, 2022. JESSICA TAYLOR / AFP Lsoaring energy prices and the…
Oil: towards a tax on superprofits?
Faced with soaring energy costs, the government was considering a tax on superprofits, targeting multinationals in the sector. However, this morning, the government spokesman backtracked. “Bruno Le Maire spoke again…
“The superprofits must help accelerate the transition, or be returned to consumers”
On could call them the 10-20 club, these companies which, in 2021, while the Covid-19 virus continued to wreak havoc, saw their profits pulverize the very honorable bar of 10…