After four days of heated debate on the bill in favor of purchasing power, the National Assembly began this Friday a new high-risk race, that of the examination of the amending budget including the abolition of the fee which will be discussed on Saturday.
"Our Assembly can be the sound and the fury" but "I suggest that it be the light of August", illustrated the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, at the kick-off in the afternoon of the debates on the second part of the package of measures to deal with galloping inflation.
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After the vote on the first part shortly before 6 a.m. on Friday, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne was pleased that “the spirit of responsibility” had “won to protect our fellow citizens”.
The game is not won for the presidential camp, deprived of an absolute majority.
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.
“You are starting from the precepts of neoliberalism.
We must start from needs”, immediately attacked the Insoumis Éric Coquerel at the podium, believing that it was necessary to fight against “ecological debt”.
Increase in the overtime tax exemption ceiling for 2022
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” of the large groups, the pressure has been put in particular on TotalEnergies and the giant of the maritime transport CMA CGM.
The deputies already approved on Friday 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, the government having acceded to a request from the right to include a promise from its candidate for the Élysée Palace Valérie Pécresse .
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.
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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 finance public broadcasting.
The question is not settled, while the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal said he was "ready" to look at the trail of a "tax assignment".
In the "emergency" bill for purchasing power, the revaluation of pensions and social benefits, the increase in the ceiling of the "Macron bonus" and again, in a rare moment of harmony, the deconjugation of the disabled adult allowance.