{"id":598651,"date":"2026-05-22T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:01:22","slug":"france-may-consider-windfall-tax-on-sectors-buoyed-by-iran-crisis-finance-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598651\/","title":{"rendered":"France may consider windfall tax on sectors buoyed by Iran crisis, finance minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">PARIS, May 22 (Reuters) &#8211; French Finance Minister Roland \u200cLescure said on \u200cFriday the government may consider imposing \u200ba windfall tax on companies amid the surge in energy prices \u200cduring the \u2060war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;If there are particular companies \u2060that have made an exceptional amount, maybe \u200bwe will \u200bimpose \u200badditional taxes, I&#8217;ll \u200csay it that way, but this debate will take place in the fall,&#8221; Lescure told Sud \u200cRadio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Several opposition \u200bFrench politicians have \u200badvocated \u200bfor additional so-called \u200cwindfall taxes on \u200boil companies \u200bsuch as TotalEnergies since the war in \u200bIran \u200cstarted in late February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Makini Brice and \u200bInti Landauro)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, May 22 (Reuters) &#8211; French Finance Minister Roland \u200cLescure said on \u200cFriday the government may consider imposing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,204399,204401,585,42255,204400,56,54,55,52008],"class_list":["post-598651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-french-finance-minister","tag-french-politicians","tag-iran","tag-oil-companies","tag-roland-lescure","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-windfall-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}