Faced with inflation, the government wants to reassure. After Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy who promised price cuts on food products from July, Elisabeth Borne made the same commitment.
“Very directly on the shelves of a certain number of products where wholesale prices have fallen, there too prices will have to go down by 2, 3, 5, maybe even 10% on certain products,” Bruno Le Maire said. by his side. A few days ago on BFMTV/RMC.
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But while the large distribution denounces that the negotiations with certain industrialists are paralyzed, the head of the Executive warns:
“I dare to hope that he would not have to take out this fiscal weapon”, however, specified Bruno Le Maire.
Of the 75 large agri-food groups in the crosshairs, this tax would apply to those who have committed to reopen negotiations and to those who have not. The affected manufacturers are those whose sales prices have increased by more than 10% since March 1and whose cost of at least one raw material has been reduced by more than 20%.
According to information from BFM Business, it is an exceptional tax on billing that is in process. It would be implemented in the 2024 finance bill.
Until now, these industrialists have seen nothing but political pressure behind this threat. But the minister’s services assure us that the threat is very serious, and that they could very easily introduce this tax, simply because they have already done so in other sectors.
Source: BFM TV
