Production taxes: Bercy and the Élysée play the watch

2/10/2020, 6:43:35 PM

If their partial removal seems to have been established, uncertainty reigns over the amount and the timetable for implementation.

Before an audience of mid-size companies (ETI) at the Élysée in late January, Emmanuel Macron did not kick in touch on a subject of great concern for leaders: production taxes. “We continue to have a cost-competitiveness problem. We will have decisions to make at the time of the productive pact, in the spring, ” said the Head of State. The productive pact, a vast plan on which Bercy has been working for six months after its announcement last April at the end of the great national debate by the President of the Republic, pursues the ambition to revive the French industry while greening it.

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If several measures are expected on this last point, such as a tax system in favor of investments in the ecological transition or a framework for purchasing policies, entrepreneurs expect only one signal on support for the industry: a lower taxes which punctuate not the bottom line of the business but its turnover or