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Taxing Oil Tankers' Super-Profits? What the Previous 2022 Tells Us

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Six European countries, including Germany and Spain, have launched an initiative to tax oil tankers' super-profits in this period of crisis. France is not "not against" the government, accused of blocking the project by part of the opposition. By 2022, such a scheme had worked at European level but with little revenue in France. Explanations. - Taxing oil tankers' super-profits? What the previous 2022 (Economy) tells us.

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Six European countries, including Germany and Spain, have launched an initiative to tax oil tankers' super-profits in this period of crisis. France is not "not against" the government, accused of blocking the project by part of the opposition. By 2022, such a scheme had worked at European level but with little revenue in France. Explanations. - Taxing oil tankers' super-profits? What the previous 2022 (Economy) tells us.

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Several European countries, including Germany, are demanding this tax on the super-profits of oil groups. Maud Bregeon claims that France does not oppose it.

Minister of Economy Roland Lescure said he did not sign the letter from six EU countries calling for a tax on oil companies, because it targets producers, and in particular French TotalEnergies...

Paris asserts that it does not oppose a possible European tax on the super-profits of oil groups, while political pressure is intensifying.

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franceinfo.fr broke the news on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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