Question 17326 — taxes and duties

Summary

Mr. Raphaël Schellenberger questions the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, on the energy tax choices made by the Government. After presenting a dynamic of brutal increase in energy taxes in the 2018 budget then in the finance bill submitted to Parliament in September 2018, the Government was forced to give it up at the end of the fall, deciding urgently to freeze the carbon trajectory defended a few weeks earlier. These improvisations, on a tax matter which on the contrary requires method and visibility, reflect the inconsistency of the energy policy conducted by the Government. Thus, although the trajectory of a sharp increase in the domestic natural gas consumption tax (TICGN) has been frozen, it remains at a high level, 8.45 euros/MWh in 2019 compared to 5.88 euros/MWh in 2017, which strongly penalizes companies using this energy without this high rate being part of any effective energy strategy, the internal consumption tax on LPG fuel being frozen at a rate of 6.63 euros per 100 kg net. This introduces a tax distortion between two types of fuel that is inversely proportional to the carbon footprint. He therefore questions the Government on the place of natural gas in its energy policy and asks what method is now being considered in order to finally define coherent and stable energy taxation.

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