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The new fuel bonus comes into effect on Monday for some 10 million tax households. This compensation is available via a form on the tax website, and replaces the rebate on prices at the pump which was in place until the end of 2022. This aid paid from January 27, in one go for 2023, concerns households in the first five income deciles. To be eligible, you must have a reference tax income of less than 14,700 euros in 202. A modest couple who works and owns two vehicles can benefit from two aids, ie 200 euros.
The Great Depression “Gérard” will blow over France. Twenty-six departments have therefore been placed on orange alert for high winds since Monday at midnight. Sunday at 4 p.m., five of these departments – the four Breton departments and Loire-Atlantique – were already on orange alert. Météo-France has also issued an orange snow alert for the departments of Cantal and Lozère. Snow will fall in quantity and at low altitude on most massifs, in particular the south of the Massif Central where snowfall has already started, and on the Alps from 600 to 800 m, from 1,000 to 1,200 m on the Pyrenees, and 500 m on the Vosges and the Jura. In the North-East, snow is also expected on the first plateaus from 300 to 400 m.
From this Monday until January 20, the Davos Forum will be held in Switzerland. And like every year, Oxfam takes the opportunity to release its report focusing in particular on the state of the distribution of wealth in the world. And the finding is once again scathing. “Each billionaire represents a failure of public policy”, advances the NGO which campaigns for a halving of their number by 2030 thanks to taxation, before “abolishing” the billionaires in the longer term. Driven by soaring stock market prices, large fortunes have soared over the past ten years: out of 100 dollars of wealth created, 54.4 dollars have gone into the pockets of the wealthiest 1%, while 70 cents have benefited the bottom 50%.