“Amendment that kicks the butt”: the left defended this Thursday more “tax justice” after having voted on Tuesday and Wednesday for two measures to fight against the tax optimization of multinationals, responding to criticism from the Government, the right and the central bloc. Since Tuesday, the government sector and the right denounce an “overcoming”, even a “fiscal madness”, after the vote in favor of a “universal tax” on multinationals and, the following day, the adoption of an amendment aimed at expanding the scope of the 15% minimum tax on the profits of these same multinationals.
“Kick in the butt” amendment
“Do you think that it is the retirees, through the freezing of their pensions (…) the disabled, through the freezing of the disabled adult subsidy, who should pay the taxes of the multinationals?” asked Boris Vallaud, recalling that “very large companies pay half the corporate tax than SMEs, than the artisan, the merchant in their neighborhood or town.”
This is an amendment “from Bercy, from the Ministers of Economy, from the Elysée who refuse to lead the fight to (…) have corporate taxes paid by multinationals on equal terms with the local baker,” added former LFI deputy François Ruffin on TF1, denouncing “passivity, complicity.” These taxes are also there, he clarified, to “shake the European Union, to say: ‘we can no longer accept that there is theft.'”
Source: BFM TV
