François Ruffin, illustration.

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STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

A "Covid tax" for the companies which "profited" from the crisis for the benefit of the "most suffering" companies?

This is the idea put forward by the LFI deputy of the Somme, François Ruffin, this Thursday.

"We have small traders who are popping their mouths open, there must be a tax on crisis profiteers", among which "there are not only digital platforms", declared François Ruffin on France Picardy Blue.

"A redistributive tax"

He cited "insurers" and "large distribution", who "won much less than the platforms but who won all the same during the first phase of the confinement".

“Normally, there should be a tax year 2020, a Covid tax which means that we redistribute to the most suffering companies,” he said.

“I think we need a redistributive tax.

(..) It was in times of crisis that these taxes were created.

The income tax, it was created during the war of 14-18 ”, further explained the deputy LFI.

An "accomplice" state

Signatory with other elected officials of the left and EELV of the petition "A Christmas without Amazon" launched Tuesday, François Ruffin once again denounced an "injustice in the face of tax" from which the online sales giant would benefit, qualifying his boss Jeff Bezos of "hectomillionaire which crams".

"I ask that the State is not complicit in this, by its laissez-faire and that it establishes laws, simply to make Amazon pay."

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