Sanctions on noisy two-wheeled vehicles, tax on share buybacks, reinforcement of the tax on financial transactions: the National Assembly again adopted an anthology of taxes on Friday, under the leadership of the left and the National Rally (RN ) and against government advice.
Launched into a race against time to finish before midnight the examination of the revenue part of the state budget, the deputies adopted in the early afternoon an amendment proposed by La Francia insoumise (LFI) aimed at creating a fiscal mechanism on buybacks of shares by companies, up to 10%.
They also approved an amendment presented by the president of the finance commission, Eric Coquerel (LFI), to strengthen the effectiveness of the tax on financial transactions, broadening its base, increasing its rate and entrusting the recovery of the tax to the general directorate. of public finances.
gafam tax
Also the adoption of an increase in the Gafam tax on digital giants from 3 to 5%, due to a heterogeneous alliance between the left, the RN but also the Republican right (DR); a mileage tax “environmental harmonization” (with the voices of RN and the left); or a tax that represents 3% of the payroll for companies that do not comply with the Copé-Zimmerman law on feminization of business management.
More anecdotally, the adoption of an amendment by Aymeric Caron, related to LFI, establishing a tax of 50 euros per animal used in a scientific or educational research procedure, and that of an amendment by environmentalists establishing a “noise penalty” in the noisiest two- and three-wheeled motorized vehicles. Or even this amendment from the deputies of the Renaissance group that authorizes beer manufacturers to sell without a license.
The deputy (RN) Aurélien López-Liguori managed to adopt, with the votes of a part of the left, an amendment that extends to Gafam the payment of the tax on the turnover of electronic communications operators.
An alliance criticized by the (renaissance) deputy Pierre Cazeneuve. “All the great fighters in the fight against the extreme right, where are they? »shout. An accusation that was returned a few minutes later by the deputy (Ecologie-Nupes) Benjamin Lucas-Lundy, after the discussion of two amendments presented by a Renaissance deputy and an LR deputy intended to almost quadruple the stamp duty paid during naturalization applications. . From 55 to 200 euros.
“Inhuman”
These amendments, both rejected, tense the debates and Eric Coquerel called them “inhuman”before Véronique Louwagie, deputy (LR) who gave rise to one of them, was moved and said that she had taken it as a “personal attack”.
“I do not consider you an inhuman person”declared Mr. Coquerel in a desire for appeasement, responding: “You tell me that it hurts you, but it hurts me, because, for me, the French republican right is not the extreme right. » “I think that a few years ago you would not have made these types of proposals”said.
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Earlier, a series of nearby amendments, this time aiming to significantly increase the tax on residence permits, had already inflamed the debates. They were rejected by a narrow majority in public votes, suggesting a closely divided government camp on the issue of immigration, which is supposed to be the subject of a new law launched by Barnier’s government.
