The sugar industry finds the 2025 salty budget towards it

Several professional organizations of the sugar industry, the agrifood and the hotel and restaurant hotel protested on Saturday against the planned increase in the tax on sugary drinks, deemed “unfair and disproportionate”, while the draft budget Social Security (PLFSS) will be re -examined from Monday in the National Assembly.

“The incomprehensible doubling of the tax on sugary drinks (…) would impose 400 million euros in additional direct debits to our businesses,” the general confederation of beets of beets, the National Union of Sugar Manufacturers, said in a joint statement, the National Sugar Manufacturers Union, The Union of Alcohol Without Alcohol, the National Association of Food Industries (Ania), the National Federation of Bokes (FNB), the Union of hotel and restaurant trades (UMIH) and the Hotel and Restorations Grouping of France .

300 million expected

During the PLFSS discussion in the Senate, in November, the senators increased, with the government’s support, the taxation on “added sugars” already voted by deputies, with a growing barrier according to the sugar content . The Ministry of Economy and Finance estimated on January 23 that this measure could bring in 300 million euros.

“This ineffective, unfair and disproportionate surcharge (…) would jeopardize the entire production and drinking distribution chain – upstream downstream – and weakens sectors essential to the economy and vitality of our territories, ”said organizations, encrypting the additional samples that this measure would represent.

Verdict expected Monday

The 2025 Social Budget draft, rejected by the Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee on Wednesday, will be submitted in new reading to all deputies from Monday, starting from the copy of the Senate.

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The debates could however be shortened if the government decided to use article 49-3 to engage its responsibility and try to have it approved without a vote.