Diesel - Tax Increases Takes Shape

As mentioned last December, the Committee on environmental taxation should propose to the government to increase taxes that weigh on diesel.

"We will, the question is, how fast and how we will get the pill." Thus Christian de Perthuis, chair of the ecological tax (CFE) announced last December that the tax on diesel would sooner or later in our country increased to match those of gasoline.

A few months after this statement, it seems that the expert economist climate has managed to find a way to achieve his ends. On June 13, the CFE should indeed endorse a set of measures to find 3 billion euros in revenues by 2016, and to finance the pack competitiveness promised by the government.
1 euro cent per liter per year until 2020

Among them, two key measures: the introduction of a carbon tax and the reduction of the tax differential between diesel and gasoline. On this last point, the Committee plans to weigh the taxes that weigh on diesel for 1 euro cent per liter per year until 2020.

A bad prospect for French carmakers Renault and PSA Peugeot-Citroen specialists diesel engines.

Before being adopted, this should nevertheless still be talked about in the French political class and reveal some dissension within the government, as was the case earlier this year.