“I knew so that it would not be renewed”: Imbroglio to the government between transport and tourism in the maintenance of the airline in the air

Differences within the government. While the Minister of Tourism, Nathalie Deattre, opposes any elimination of the Tax on plane tickets, her colleague in charge of transport, Philippe Tabarot, is much more open to this option, while Ryanair announced, on Wednesday, the abolition of three services in France, in Bergerac, Brives and Strasbourg for this winter, in response to this astronomical tax. “

“I begged my colleague so that this tax was not renewed or reduced,” he added.

“Too much tax kills the tax,” he said, while the Government plans to freeze the income tax scale next year to increase tax revenues and achieve substantial savings.

A break?

This Thursday morning, the Minister of Tourism initially said on TF1 that he was “together with Minister (Transport) Philippe Tabarot to defend this option to eliminate this tax.” Before your ministry rectifies your comments:

However, if the Minister of Transportation defends both the abolition or reduction of this tax, it is mostly for “the passengers of these territories that will see the reduced supply of the airport.”

Regarding Ryanair, “even if low -cost companies have helped a lot to open competition in our country, to allow low -income people to discover a certain number of destinations, in their economic model, I remind you that sometimes they tried to exonerate their fiscal or social obligations,” added Philippe Toparot.

In addition, “it is a company that last year made 20% of the increase in its billing” and that “is valued in terms of its capitalization in the stock market ten times more than Air France today,” he continued, specifying that he does not care about them. “