Farmers and fishermen will be also helped

The re-entry of the UMP in the Assembly group seemed tense. François Fillon su désamorcer input the grumbling of deputies by issuing a preview mode of the future carbon tax proposed by the Executive compensation. "For households, it must reduce the income tax and put in place a tax credit for those who do not pay", has declared, in the camera closed the meeting, before repeating that companies will benefit, in 2010, "10 billions" EUR by the removal of the share investment of business tax. "Aware" of the sensitivity of the voters who lack alternative transportation car, the head of Government said: "It increased return through tax on the income in rural areas."Farmers and fishermen will be also "helped".

Collaborators of the Prime Minister as the leader of the UMP deputies, Jean-François Copé, spoke cautiously of "preferred track."Not question after presidential reframing of the week last to create a new drama.

Symbolic rendered tax

In the closed meeting, François Fillon is, him, demonstrated quite affirmative, even though he was careful to clarify that the "terms" would be set by Nicolas Sarkozy, which will be tomorrow, in a shift in Culoz in Ain.

Insofar as the carbon tax starts at a low level (14 euros, for example), tax returned to households will, in all cases, symbolic: the 35 million tax households will have to share a little less than EUR 2 billion, or slightly more than EUR 50 per household on average. That should probably add some 400 million VAT since it should apply to the tax (see box opposite). The Elysee must now decide whether it targets the measure on the more modest households, the first two tranches of the scale for example, or if it extends its benefit to earnings, which dilutes all households gain. Debates exist on the concept of rural areas. Three options are on the table, returning to exclude, choice, agglomerations, Commons more of 5,000 inhabitants or more Commons of 20,000 inhabitants.

With respect to farmers, the part looks complicated. For the FNSEA, it is excluded to accept a new tax, such as to provide for compensation ". "This is not the time," warned a leader of the first agricultural Union.According to a government source, the runway of a partial exemption from tax reducing over the anstiendrait the rope.

Assume this new "tax".

Yesterday, the head of Government had to be a little explicit to cut short to the grumbling of the elected representatives of the majority, expressed earlier in the Office of the group. Patrick Ollier, the Chairman of the Committee on Economic Affairs, had particularly pinned "a typical example of the Government communication dysfunction": "the Executive would have any interest (we) see upstream.". "When it does not, it creates problems for the place to resolve," he delivered. Others had asked the Executive to assume the creation of this new "tax", to give the sense of hiding a blow to the taxpayers. "I want to call it tax, we will implement it and I will continue to call it"fee"" a, at the time, martelé François Fillon.