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Purchasing power: the majority is divided on the taxation of super-profits

7/19/2022, 7:04:33 PM


During the meeting of the Renaissance group in the Assembly on Tuesday, the debate was invited into the discussions, despite the reserved position of

Will the macronists be able to resist the pressure for long?

While the National Assembly is examining the bill on purchasing power, the National Rally and the left are crying out for taxation of companies that benefit from the crisis.

In their sights, in particular: TotalEnergies or the maritime carrier CMA-CGM.

Even the right is approaching this solution, practiced recently in Spain and in certain European countries.

The boss of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix now ensures that he has "no hostility to the law making more use of oil companies, if necessary", including by taxing their "superprofits".

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