The proposed compensation are very expected

Convince the right, left, environmentalists, the anti-impôts, rural dwellers, commuters, families, farmers. After weeks of dithering and agitated debates, Nicolas Sarkozy will have to play the équilibristes today to endorse clothes green of the Grenelle of the environment, without the grain grinding a left that the dubbed "Mr. tax" and without destabilizing an electoral base décontenancée by ecological taxation. At the risk of piss everyone off. A final adjudication meeting was held yesterday evening in the Elysee Palace to set the contours of the carbon tax, the head of State to unveil today at Culoz (Ain). The starting price should be close to the market price of per tonne of CO2 emitted paid by companies on the European market of quotas (15.04 EUR yesterday), or even be a little higher. But it will be from 32 euros advocated by the commission Rocard. Progressive commitments will be taken (experts ask 100 euros by 2030), even if the Executive seemed reluctant, yesterday, to burn in the Act, the levels of 2011 and 2012.

A single device

Next year, households meet therefore 2.5 billion euros, VAT included ("Les Echos" of yesterday), and companies a little less 2 billion. The proposed compensation are very expected. Nicolas Sarkozy will confirm that redistribution will be complete for households. The runway of a decline in relief of loads, promise of jobs, has been abandoned in favour of a tax credit, not far from the "green check" claimed by Jean-Louis Borloo. This allows to have a single device affecting both workers, the unemployed and pensioners. This restitution should be offered to non-taxable and taxable persons. The question was open yesterday evening to know if the 3 million of the richest households, submitted at the last two slices of the scale, are also eligible. The Rocard commission had recommended that offsets are not in the more affluent.

The reduction will be fixed: in proportion to income, it will be more important for households, which would not have been the case of a discount proportional to income tax or salary. But the head of State will also give the guardian of the family and rural right of wages. "It is essential that families should be taken into account in the scale of the redistribution," warned yesterday the UMP MP of the Drôme, Hervé Mariton. It was heard. Similarly, the tax reduction will be increased for households who did not live in a "transit area" (PTU). This test, more relevant than the size of the Commons, is not without inconvenience, because it excludes the inhabitants of the suburbs: "We are also worse off than rural people." "It is an injustice," rebelled Gilles Carrez, rapporteur UMP of the budget in the Assembly and Mayor of the Perreux-sur-Marne. Exit, also, the distinction between South and North, where it heats more. The Government conducted many simulations to measure the impact. With a price of 14 euros starting, the amount returned for a single person in urban areas would come in this case to 37 euros. With two children, a family will see its tax reduced nearly by 100 euros. These amounts will be increased for people non-urban transport, in the amount of 20 euros per adult.

Cheque business step

Companies, which will get 6 billion tax cut through the removal of business tax, will certainly not "green cheques", but they will not be all forgotten. An envelope of $ 500 million should be reserved for the most exposed professionals (read below), within the limits of what is allowed by Brussels. In the end, everything is done to show that the State will not the carbon tax benefit to restore its finances. A fund will be even created to collect the proceeds of the tax from the State. "At the rate things are going, the tax could even more costly to the State that it concerned", concerned a member of the Government.

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