Growing fuel prices are putting more pressure on the government.
It is the turn of 40 million motorists to ask him for a reduction in taxes in order to lower prices at the pump.
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In a press release published on Monday, the association urges road users to sign its petition:
"Fuels: for lower taxes for lower prices
" which "
calls for a reduction in the VAT rate on fuels from 20 to 5.5%, considering that these are essential products that motorists cannot do without, like gas or electricity, which benefit from this reduced rate of VAT ”
.
"A reduction in the VAT rate to 5.5% would save 18 to 20 cents on each liter of fuel, which would give the French a little purchasing power"
, adds Daniel Quéro, leader of the association. A measure also advocated by the socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo, in early October.
Fuel check
The chairman of Leclerc's strategic committee has also spoken in favor of lowering fuel taxes.
Asked about RTL, Michel-Edouard Leclerc called on the government to act on these taxes after announcing that the group would sell its fuel at cost price until October 30.
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For his part, Bruno Le Maire said he was
"more favorable"
to the creation of a fuel check rather than a reduction in taxation.
This option would, according to him, be very expensive - a drop of one cent costs the State 500 million euros - and
"unfair"
because it gives the same compensation to the person with a "
large motorized 4x4
" and "
l “nursing assistant who takes his Clio
” to visit his patients, he explained to the microphone of Europe 1 earlier this Monday.
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