A new amendment discreetly removes the specific fuel for construction: what is the government playing?

In addition to the contested postponement, there is now the disappearance of specific construction fuel from the machinery concerned and the deletion of the work register.

The devil is often hidden in the details ... Thus, in a few technical and discreet lines in the amendment tabled on June 11 by the government providing for the postponement to January 1, 2023, the government also removes the main commitments made by Bruno Le Maire in 2020 These commitments were included in the 2020 Finance Law, very explicit commitments expressed in December 2019 in the amendment presented by the government and adopted (attached).

results:

• Elimination of specific construction fuel
• Removal of the list of gear to use it
• Elimination of the obligation for all contractors and beneficiaries of agricultural reimbursement to keep a register of works in the construction sector

However, if the construction companies had finally accepted in 2019 the questioning of the GNR taxation, i.e. a 50% increase in their fuel item, it was on the sole condition that all of these commitments were met and in particular the creation of this new construction fuel (and in no case the possibility of tinting a white diesel by the companies themselves) and the list of machines having to use it.

Non-negotiable commitments !!!

In October, all professional construction organizations spoke with one voice (joint press release of October 1, 2020 attached)

As a reminder, following the very strong mobilization of the sector to defend its companies against the increased risks of theft, vandalism and unfair competition with the agricultural sector, the profession has obtained the government's commitment to set up a colored marker. alternative for the construction industry ...

This fuel and this list remain the main measures to oppose fuel theft and the distortion of competition between companies in the agricultural world and construction companies.

Neither the CAPEB nor the CNATP are opposed to the pluriactivity of companies in the agricultural world but on the condition that they respect the same rules imposed on construction companies and thus buy the same fuel at the same price.

If the government does not return to the initial text of the amending finance bill and therefore if it does not keep its promises made to the construction sector, the construction companies will again mobilize strongly.