the National Assembly adopts a brand new spherical of taxes towards the recommendation of the federal government | EUROtoday

Penalties for noisy two-wheelers, tax on share buybacks, strengthening of the tax on monetary transactions: the National Assembly as soon as once more adopted an anthology of taxes on Friday, below the management of the left and the National Rally (RN) and towards the recommendation of the federal government.

Launched right into a race towards time to complete the examination of the income a part of the state funds earlier than midnight, the deputies adopted firstly of the afternoon an modification proposed by La France insoumise (LFI) geared toward making a tax mechanism on share buybacks by corporations, as much as 10%.

They additionally authorised an modification offered by the president of the finance committee, Eric Coquerel (LFI), to strengthen the effectiveness of the tax on monetary transactions, by broadening its base, growing its price and entrusting the restoration of the tax to the final directorate of public funds.

Gafam tax

Also adoption of a rise within the Gafam tax on digital giants from 3 to five%, as a consequence of a heterogeneous alliance between the left, the RN but in addition the Republican Right (DR); a mileage tax “environmental harmonization” (with the voices of the RN and the left); or a tax representing 3% of payroll for corporations not complying with the Copé-Zimmerman legislation on the feminization of firm administration.

More anecdotally, the adoption of an modification from Aymeric Caron, associated to LFI, establishing a tax of fifty euros per animal used as a part of a scientific or academic analysis process, and that of an modification from ecologists establishing a “noise penalty” on the noisiest motorized two-wheelers and three-wheelers. Or even this modification from deputies of the Renaissance group authorizing beer brewers to promote with out a license.

The deputy (RN) Aurélien Lopez-Liguori succeeded in having adopted, with the votes of a part of the left, an modification extending to Gafam the fee of the tax on the turnover of digital communications operators.

An alliance castigated by the deputy (Renaissance) Pierre Cazeneuve. “All the great fighters in the fight against the far right, where are you? »he shouted. A charge returned to him a few minutes later by the deputy (Ecologie-Nupes) Benjamin Lucas-Lundy, after the discussion of two amendments brought by a Renaissance deputy and an LR deputy aiming to almost quadruple the stamp duty paid during requests for naturalization, from 55 to 200 euros.

“Inhumans”

These amendments, each rejected, tensed up the debates, with Eric Coquerel calling them “inhuman”earlier than Véronique Louwagie, the MP (LR) on the origin of one in all them, was moved by it, saying she took it as a “personal attack”.

“I do not consider you to be an inhumane person”declared Mr. Coquerel in a need for appeasement, whereas 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 this kind of proposal”he stated.

Earlier within the day, a sequence of shut amendments, this time desirous to considerably improve the tax on residence permits, had already infected discussions. They had been rejected by a slim majority in public ballots, suggesting a really divided authorities camp on the theme of immigration, purported to be the topic of a brand new legislation launched by the Barnier authorities.