Trucks, tractors, blockages... the scenes look very similar to those that played out a few days ago during the farmers' anger.
Construction industry players are mobilizing in Brittany against the new taxes on non-road diesel (GNR) which is used to refuel machines that travel off-road, mainly tractors, combine harvesters and other earth-moving equipment.
This red-colored fuel, particularly used in the transport, agriculture and public works sectors, has for years benefited from a significant tax advantage which costs the state coffers several billion per year.
In search of savings to clean up public accounts in a disastrous situation (the debt peaks at more than 3,000 billion euros), the Minister of Finance, Bruno Le Maire, had posed for months as a slayer of tax loopholes. brown" - that is to say on polluting products -, among which this…
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