This is a measure which could, according to the Rebels, bring in 15 billion euros. LFI deputies and their left-wing allies had a tax on the “superprofits” of large companies approved in the Finance Committee on Friday. This “exceptional contribution”, which would apply to companies with a turnover of more than 750 million euros, aims to “make crisis profiteers” who have “indecently enriched themselves” contribute to national solidarity. during health and then energy crises.
This amendment will, however, be put to a new vote next week, when the “revenue” part of the 2025 state budget will be examined in the hemicycle. In detail, the share of the company’s profits exceeding 1.25 times the average annual profits made over the period 2017-2019 (i.e. before the Covid crisis) will be considered as a “superprofit”. Additional taxation will be calculated on these “excess” profits, with three brackets imposed at 20%, 25% and 33%.
A “contribution to the collective effort”
“Gas groups which made more than 10 billion euros in profits in the first half of the year” must “make their contribution to the collective effort”, argued environmentalist Eva Sas. “If you want all our companies to leave the territory, you are right: this is the way to go about it! », replied Véronique Louwagie (LR). The RN, whose elected officials found the idea “interesting”, abstained.
The Finance Committee also approved several provisions aimed at reducing the research tax credit (CIR) – tax assistance for businesses introduced during François Hollande’s five-year term, but whose cost is criticized by part of the left in view of its effectiveness in terms of support for growth and employment.
In the evening, the deputies approved several increases in local taxes, in particular the housing tax on second homes by allowing all municipalities to apply the increase (up to 60%) reserved at this stage for “zones”. tense.” Green light also for the departments to increase the development tax collected on building permits. Conversely, the commission supported a property tax exemption on agricultural land going beyond the measure proposed by the government.