As per reports, the Constitutional Council on Thursday (13 September) validated a new tax on long-distance transport infrastructure intended to finance the ecological transition to the tune of EUR 600 million and which was contested by airport and motorway management companies.
The new tax only applies to companies with a turnover of at least EUR 120 million and an average profitability threshold of 10 percent.
• It has been reported that all proceeds from this new tax decided in the 2024 budget by Bercy, in the name of the ecological transition, must be added to the budget of the Transport Infrastructure Financing Agency (Afit). Three-quarters would be provided by the motorway sector and one-quarter by the air sector, because only the largest airports (Orly and Roissy, Nice, Marseille and Lyon) are concerned.
• Reports indicate that the Constitutional Council had been seized via a priority question of constitutionality (QPC) by several French airport managers, including the Société Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur (Nice), the ADP group (Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly) but also the Union of French Airports (UAF). The motorway company Area, a subsidiary of the Eiffage group, was also among the applicants.
