Barely passed the bill in favor of purchasing power, after four days of heated debates, the National Assembly began Friday, July 23 a new race at high risk, that of the examination of the amending budget including the suppression of the fee which will be debated on Saturday.
The deputies already approved in the evening an increase in the tax exemption ceiling for overtime for 2022, which thus goes from 5,000 to 7,500 euros. They also gave the green light to the possibility for companies to buy back from employees the days of RTT which they would have given up (with a cap of 7,500 euros), the government having acceded to a request from the right to include a promise of his candidate for the Elysée Valérie Pécresse.
The measure was supported by the National Rally: “We say yes without hesitation”, said Laurent Jacobelli. On the left, the deputies protested against this measure: “Another way to circumvent salary increases”according to the communist Jean-Marc Tellier.
The amending finance bill for 2022 includes the continuation of the fuel rebate and the tariff shield on energy, the revaluation of the index point for civil servants, the financing of the takeover bid to renationalise EDF and the abolition of the audiovisual license fee.
Haro on the “superprofits” of large groups
“You are starting from the precepts of neoliberalism. We have to start from the needs”immediately attacked the “rebellious” Eric Coquerel at the podium, believing that it was necessary to fight against “ecological debt”. The exchanges must continue until Saturday evening, or even Sunday. The government has already cleared, at least in part, several subjects. While the pressure is increasing, even in the majority, to tax the “superprofits” large groups, pressure was put on TotalEnergies and the shipping giant CMA CGM in particular.
The first conveniently announced Friday morning a discount at the pump of 20 cents per liter between September and November in all its service stations, then 10 cents per liter for the rest of the year. CMA CGM will reduce its freight rates by 750 euros per 40-foot container (some 67 m3) to mainland France and the Overseas Territories.
But the left and members of the majority remain unsatisfied, believing that the gesture made by Total was far from the “billions” accumulated superprofits. Thierry Benoit (Horizons group) said in the meeting that he “appreciated[ait] Total’s gesture » but don’t worry “satisfied[ait] not “.
Mr. Mayor has pinned the“intellectual fraud” of the left which would claim taxes at all costs. “Today we have dozens of amendments tabled, which would lead to billions of euros in additional taxes”, he hammered. But “a tax has never improved the lives of our compatriots”. More open to proposals from the right, the minister agrees to an increase in state aid, currently at 18 cents per liter of fuel.
Heated debates over the removal of the fee
MEPs also voted to double the tax-free aid that companies can pay to employees to cover their fuel costs, raising the ceiling from 200 to 400 euros. They also validated a measure favorable to the increase in meal vouchers, anticipating the revaluation of exemptions for employers.
The abolition of the fee, promise of Emmanuel Macron will be debated on Saturday. The left is upwind and the socialists are instead proposing a “universal and progressive contribution” to fund public broadcasting. The question is not settled, while the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal said to himself ” ready “ watching the trail of a “tax assignment”.
“Building majorities of projects to provide concrete solutions to the French, we have succeeded” until then, believes Elisabeth Borne, whose method is being tested on this first package of measures from the legislature.
In the bill “emergency” for purchasing power, the revaluations of pensions and social benefits, the increase in the ceiling of the “prize Macron” and again, in a rare moment of harmony, the deconjugalization of the allowance for disabled adults.