The regional environmental tax relaunched track? – Challenges.fr

Frédéric Cuvillier, Socialist deputy mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), revived the idea of ​​an eco-tax on a regional level in an interview published Monday, August 10 in Les Echos , a proposal immediately criticized by Marine Le Pen. “I pleaded from last year to the principle of the environmental tax, which was abandoned at national level, can be reborn in the regions,” said the former Minister of Transport.

“This topic is particularly relevant in our territory, which undergoes a strong transit trucks because of the proximity to England and Belgium,” he he said, adding that he hoped the future region is “pioneer in the establishment of such a device”.

Cuvillier calls “a moratorium”

The eco-tax has been abandoned by the government in October 2014. In mid-June, the Minister for Ecology, Segolene Royal, said she would consider the idea of ​​leaving the possibility to certain regions to set up an eco-tax for HGVs in transit.

Frédéric Cuvillier has called for a “moratorium” to the government on the dismantling of gantries in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Picardy and would draw the Belgian system called “Viapass”. “I propose the extension of the Belgian system, (…) this could be the first step towards the creation of a European transit fee,” he he said.

Claude Bartolone, President of the National Assembly and PS list for the regional in IDF, also said Monday on RTL “favorable” to the establishment of an eco-tax for lorries in the Ile-de-France.

“The National Front (to) resolutely oppose”

“I am in favor of an environmental tax (…) I think it would be a good thing as finding a system to broaden the base of our financing in order asap successfully modernize our transport networks, “said Claude Bartolone.

In contrast, for Marine Le Pen , “this perspective, would constitute a new hard blow for our road already seriously challenged by unfair competition from carriers from Eastern Europe, is perfectly intolerable.”

“The National Front is therefore resolutely oppose any additional taxation of French road, including at regional level,” added the head of the party list of the regional next December. This project is “afflicted the usual defects of socialist dogma, those of fiscal insanity that still drapes once in moral pretexts,” said the leader of the FN in the Region, Philippe Eymery.

(With AFP)