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INSEE denounces the crushing weight of taxes in the surge in electricity prices.

The price of electricity is still to increase by 6% this summer.
In 10 years, the bill will have increased by almost 50%, according to the calculations of the CLCV consumer association. This electricity bill now reaches, according to INSEE, 960 euros per year and per household.

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Why such a price spike?

The INSEE designates the culprit in this note, a culprit we know well in France: taxes!
Between 2010 and 2016, the level of taxes on electricity rose from 26% to 35% in France, more than a third of the bill. We are not yet at the level of gasoline, taxed more than 60% but we go slowly.
These taxes in the name of ecology of course and there is the discomfort. This green taxation was added to a tax already record in France and this is what triggered the wrath of yellow vests.
Especially since one can sometimes have the unpleasant impression that the climate has become a convenient excuse to raise money.
In fact, from the point of view of climate, French electricity is irreproachable and does not emit C02, with nuclear power. Yet she suffers an avalanche of environmental taxes.
We even went into a crazy system where the snake bit its tail. To help the poorest households who can no longer pay their bills, help has been created, such as the energy check, which is financed by an increase in taxes on electricity (the CSPE).
We do not stop progress: a tax to soften taxes!
This Sunday, we had a mishmash in the Sunday Journal of Gerald Darmanin (the Minister of Public Accounts), which explains that green taxation must be incentive and that its goal should not be to raise money.
It's better by saying it ...

Read the JDD article - Gérald Darmanin at the JDD: "Lowering the income tax for the middle class is a good track"