By voting on the purchasing power and then amended budget bills for 2022, the deputies validated a whole series of measures for purchasing power at first reading. End of the TV license fee, freezing the price of gas and electricity or boosting the petrol pump: behind these widely debated and relayed measures, other less identified measures will have a concrete and rapid effect. Overview.
1. The sustainable mobility package revised upwards
Do you go to work by bike, or carpool? Your employer can cover part of your expenses in the same way as if you were using public transport. To further encourage the use of clean mobility, the exemption ceiling for the sustainable mobility package will increase from 600 euros to 800 euros, in the event of accumulation with the payment by the employer of a public transport season ticketif the text voted on by the Assembly remains as it is.
Since January 2022, employees can use a mobility voucher to pay for their transport costs. It is an easy-to-use payment solution, integrating the sustainable mobility package or employer assistance for fuel costs and for supplying electric, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen vehicles, on the model of meal vouchers, such as explains the Minister in charge of Transport in a press release.
2. Restaurant ticket and meal allowance: boost for businesses
A clearance for restaurant tickets! If its daily ceiling is 19 euros, discussions exist to increase it again. In the meantime, the deputies voted to increase the tax exemption granted to the employer who provides restaurant vouchers to his employees, for those issued between September 1 and December 31, 2022. Thus, if they offer a voucher to their employees whose the value is between 9.48 and 11.38 euros, the deductible amount is increased to 5.92 euros. The purpose of this vote is to take into account as of this summer the inflation weighing on meal expensesby encouraging the employer to increase its contribution without this increase weighing on its expenses.
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Same principle for the upper limit of allowances for professional meal expenses paid by employers to employees forced to incur additional expenses to take their meals (truck drivers, blue-collar workers, etc.): the ceiling should be increased by 4% for compensation paid between September 1 and December 31, 2022.
3. Fuel prices: pass the frying oil!
The deputies decided to authorize the use of used edible oil as fuel. What oil? That produced from (or derived from) residues of fats of vegetable or animal origin used for food, and whether this oil is used in the food industry, in collective or commercial catering. Be careful though, to be compatible with your tank, these used food oils must be decanted and filtered!
According to the association Roll my fries, 30% used oil can be mixed with diesel fuel. Indeed, petrol vehicles (unleaded E10, 95 or 98) cannot benefit from it.
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This fuel rejects up 90% less greenhouse gas than a conventional diesel, and puts out a lot less fine particles according to the environmentalists read the origin of this amendment vote within the framework of the law of purchasing power. Until now, rolling used frying oil was considered to be an offense that posed a real problem…in the event of an accident. Something to amuse the boss of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), Julien Bayou: In France, we don’t have oil but we have frying oil.
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4. Carpooling included in professional mileage allowances
The current framework for mileage allowances for travel between home and work is not not enough incentive to practice carpooling because an employee who chooses to carpooling had until then lost its right to touch mileage allowance. Now both are cumulative: The travel costs incurred by a passenger in respect of cost sharing in the context of carpooling are accepted, on receipt, as real professional costs, decided the deputies.
Still with regard to travel, volunteers from associations will be able to benefit from the mileage scale provided to company employees to declare their actual costs, which are more advantageous than their current scale.
5. Work: fuel costs better reimbursed
The ceiling for reimbursement of fuel costs for the journey between home and work has been increase of 400 euros exempt from taxes, against 200 euros previously. More broadly, fuel costs and other similar costs (costs of supplying an electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen) are now covered up to 700 euros (including a maximum of 400 euros for fuel), compared to 500 euros today.
In addition, exceptionally for 2022 and 2023, it will be possible to combine this support with the financing of 50% of a public transport season ticket.
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