The National Assembly will examine on the evening of May 31 a bill from the presidential majority to extend by nine months, until the beginning of 2024, the cap on the rise in rents at 3.5% for households and SMEs, in a context high inflation.
The agenda for the meetings was supplemented on Wednesday by this text, tabled by the Renaissance, Modem and Horizons groups in order to protect the purchasing power of families, craftsmen and merchants.
In the summer of 2022, a rent shield was introduced for households, with a cap on the variation of the rent reference index (IRL) of 3.5% from July 2022 to June 2023. this deadline is the end of the first quarter of 2024.
The text also aims to maintain until the same term the 3.5% capping mechanism for the commercial rent index, to the benefit of small and medium-sized businesses.
Limit the effects of inflation
Six trade federations had notably asked the government and parliamentarians last March for this extension for VSEs and SMEs, and also for a generalization of the system to large companies.
While rents represent on average more than 25% of the family budget and an increasingly heavy share of the expenses of VSEs-SMEs, the presidential majority is still there to limit the effects of inflation, argue in a press release Aurore Berg, Jean-Paul Mattei and Laurent Marcangeli, leaders respectively of the deputies Renaissance, Modem and Horizons.
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