France Eyes €2.5 Billion in Transport Tax for Green Spending

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The French government wants to generate an additional €100 million as early as next year by lifting taxes on airline tickets, mainly in first and business class, to help finance rail transport, the newspaper added, without identifying the source of its information.
54% : An extra tax on large vehicles that emit high levels of CO2 will also be expanded in next year's budget, along with taxes on business fleet vehicles, Les Echos said.
49% : Airline Air France-KLM said it's not opposed to taxation but added that "the group calls for the sums levied to be used to accelerate the decarbonization of aviation, which requires heavy long-term investments."
37% : A plan to increase taxes on alcohol is likely to be abandoned, meanwhile, and a tax on share buybacks promised by President Emmanuel Macron has disappeared from the radar, according to Les Echos.

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