The new “workers’ fuel allowance” will be paid on Monday. This aid is expected to cost the state nearly one billion euros.
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L’equivalent to a “rebate of 10 centimes per litre”. The Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Gabriel Attal presented Friday from Nice the new aid of 100 euros intended for the most modest households who take their car to go to work. Called “worker fuel allowance”, this bonus paid in one go, to which half of French tax households will be able to claim in 2023, will come into force on Monday.
This aid scheme “equivalent to a rebate of 10 centimes per liter of fuel on the basis of 12,000 kilometers per year covered on average for his business trips”, boasted the minister during the presentation of this measure in a center of the Nice taxes. The fuel allowance replaces the general rebate on fuel taxation, which expired at the end of December and will have cost the State 8 billion euros in 2022, i.e. “the equivalent of the budget of the Ministry of Justice”, had specified Gabriel Attal at the beginning of December.READ ALSOFrom “wooden check” to wooden check“The general discount helped, including French people who do not need their car to go to work […], French people who have incomes that allow them to absorb inflation,” said the Minister. “I prefer to help the liberal nurse who needs her Twingo to do her rounds rather than the very well-to-do family who takes their SUV for something else,” he pleaded.
An envelope of one billion euros
The new aid applies to any type of vehicle, including two-wheelers and electric vehicles. It represents an envelope of around one billion euros, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne detailed last month. Set up from January 16 to February 28, this system allows, by sending a form, to obtain a transfer of 100 euros to their bank account from January 27 for the first files processed by the tax services. .READ ALSO“The government has no strategy”: transport out of breath
This bonus is limited to earned income, with a ceiling set at 14,700 euros of reference tax income (RFR) per tax share, which concerns 10 million households in France. The Minister insisted on the ease of the process, which simply requires registering online, via a form on the impots.gouv.fr website, his marital status, the registration of his vehicle and his tax number. The process can also be done directly in the tax offices.