Superprofit: tax-adverse, Emmanuel Macron favors the “special contribution” of large companies in favor of their employees.

Last year almost 29 billion euros, this year more than 27 billion. Three times more than before Covid-19. Since the health crisis, share buying has reached historic levels in France, as elsewhere in Europe. Figures that are difficult to translate politically in conditions of strained purchasing power.

During a TV interview on TF1 and France 2 on Wednesday, March 22, Emmanuel Macron noted, “ cynicism » from “ These great companies we’ve helped” In times of crisis, they say they want to “To work on an exceptional contribution, so that with this money, when there are exceptional profits from companies that are willing to buy back their own shares, their workers can benefit from it.”.

However, the question of taxing super-profits is not there: the goal remains to encourage companies to better compensate their employees through existing value-sharing mechanisms. Emmanuel Macron also confirmed on Wednesday his desire to continue his delivery policy (pro-business), his economic common thread since 2017. Ჯanmo “If we assume the tax choices we’ve made for companies: if we want to continue reindustrialization, we need more jobs and more capital.”he repeated.

Only companies with more than 5,000 employees who practice share buybacks will be affected by this contribution, Bruno Le Maire then explained to senators. “ We want to force them to distribute more profit sharing, more participation, more tax-free bonuses when they buy shares.“, said the Minister of Economy. For example, we can consider doubling the amount paid » in this degree. According to INSEE, in 2020 there were 273 companies with more than 5,000 employees in France, employing 3.9 million people.

The “third stage” of better value distribution.

The executive is going to let the social partners decide what this incentive should be, “The third step “On a better distribution of value, according to Bruno Le Maire, after the first series of measures since 2017 – the simplification of profit sharing and participation agreements, the abolition of the social package and the tripling of the “Macron bonus” – the second, consisting of: the tax on energy companies decided in the fall of 2022 in the face of the energy crisis Aid funding.

“If it comes into force in 2023, that’s great”We tell Beers without being able to list the number of companies involved, the sums at stake, or say whether the measure would appear in a “labor” law or a hypothetical text on value sharing. Budget 2024 will also be a possible vehicle.