Should the professional travel cards of 55,000 public transport employees be subject to social contributions?
This is a question which intensely agitates the Place, the communities and the employees working in the public transport of companies like Transdev or Keolis ... While the Senate has just unanimously adopted article 14 bis A of the PLFSS 2021 which provides to recognize the card as a working tool, and that the subject is currently under discussion in Parliament, it is the subject of intense lobbying from all sides.
France Urbaine, the association which brings together elected officials of all political persuasions from 50 large cities, has just sent a letter to the Prime Minister to alert him to the situation.
Its genesis?
The zeal since last year of Urssaf controllers (dependent on both Social Affairs and Bercy) gradually reclassifying these service cards as benefits in kind.
Therefore 100% subject to social contributions.
Abusive reversal for many when this card has always been considered a working tool and its demonstrated unprofessional use only oscillates between 0 and 2%.
The reclassification would lose between 80 and 200 euros per year to the drivers and several hundred thousand euros to the cities delegating their transport.
This measure would certainly bring in some 20 million euros to the State, but at a time of Covid, where questions of purchasing power, sustainable development and public transport are significant, these inconsistencies in public policies are calling out.
The Assembly and the government should not be indifferent to it….
