Cross-Party Collaboration on Tax Differentials: An Exclusive Interview with Rebellious and Majority Deputies

The rebellious deputy and that of the majority worked together, despite their political opposition, on a report on the tax differentials between companies. Exclusively for “Libé”, they detail the content and their twelve points of agreement.

They could not have found a more divisive subject between them. The chairman of the finance committee of the National Assembly, Eric Coquerel (LFI) and the general rapporteur, Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance), are co-rapporteurs of a parliamentary mission on the differential in corporate taxation. The first had the idea to look into this theme last fall, when the superprofits reaped by certain large companies reached peaks, seeing that these giants were sometimes proportionally less taxed than smaller companies. The second defends a majority which has made the policy of supply and lower taxes its trademark and has found «got» to measure the different tax rates.

Twenty hearings later, they draw up in a report made public on Wednesday an inventory of corporate tax, tax credits and devices that reduce it. Although the tax differentials were significantly reduced in the 2010s, they persist and depend on several factors, including “the greater or lesser capacity of companies to take advantage of the relief mechanisms provided for by law”, notes the report. Among the twelve common recommendations on which the two MEPs agreed, some aim to improve transparency – to oblige companies to publish the public aid they receive, to increase the power of employees – to consider