The subject is highly irritating.
Are motorway companies posting excessive profitability, while toll rates increased by 4.75% on 1 January?
A report from the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) in 2021, carried out at the request of the government and flushed out by the
Canard enchaîné
, set fire to the powder.
This report mentions three avenues, starting with a shortening of the duration of the concession
“up to ten years for ASF and APRR”
.
Second track: the reduction in tolls, which could have been “
carried out once and for all in 2022. It should be 58% for ASF-Escota and 59% for APRR-Area, which represents a saving of around €21 over a route Marseille-Toulouse or Paris-Lyon.
“Third track:
“a levy on the gross operating surplus of 2021 until the end of the concessions”
.
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The government did not follow any, even if Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, seized the Council of State to study the first track…
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