End of the environmental tax: the State will pay 839 million euros – France Inter

End of the environmental tax: the State will pay 839 million euros – France Inter

The Ecomouv company was to receive 40% of the revenues of the environmental tax © Maxppp – 2015

The State shall compensate the company Ecomouv ‘to the tune of 403 million euros in March 2015 and then pay the remainder to the banks, under the terms of an agreement reached Tuesday night following the abandonment of the environmental tax.

On € 839 million due after termination of his contract with Ecomouv ‘, the state will pay the rest to banks, over a period of ten years in the amount of thirty million euros per year.

Olivier Kamiri, CGT society Ecomouv ‘ denounces “a huge financial mismanagement”

The state will make an initial payment of about half of the money, and then pay 30 million euros, at a minimum, every year over ten years.

“Only a portion of compensation”

The state and Ecomouv ‘had until

December to agree on the penalties to avoid going to litigation on this point. However “Ecomouv ‘always has the option to go to litigation,” says Olivier Kamiri because the € 839 million are “only part of the compensation” facing the shortfall on the use of the eco-tax.

The government had announced the end of October the termination of the contract with Ecomouv ‘, a subsidiary of Italian Atlantia originally scheduled to ensure the collection of environmental tax on behalf of the French state. The cost of terminating the contract signed in 2011 was estimated at between 800 million and just over one billion euros.

Supposed to finance transport infrastructure, environmental tax and its successor, the Toll transit trucks, were abandoned under pressure from the “red caps” for the first Breton and motor carrier for the second.