Paris – Lower income tax and exemption from housing tax for 80% of households, obligation for individual employers to set up the withholding tax, merger of courts or even cotton swabs prohibited at the sale … What changes on January 1st.
SALARIES, EMPLOYMENT
– The hourly Smic goes from 10.03 to 10.15 euros gross and the monthly Smic from 1.204 to 1.219 euros net, or 15 euros more per month for the 2.3 million beneficiaries.
– The apprenticeship training centers (CFA) will no longer be financed by the regions but by the professional branches and according to the number of young people under contract, as part of the “Avenir Pro” reform of 2018, which had made the ‘object of a showdown between employers and regions, who wanted to keep this competence.
– Companies with more than 11 employees are required to set up economic and social advice (CSE). Since the adoption of the reform of the labor code in 2017, 50,000 CSEs have been implemented, according to the Ministry of Labor.
TAXES
– Lower income tax: President Macron’s flagship promise to “yellow vests”, this drop of 5 billion euros will translate into an average annual gain of 350 euros for the 12 million households in the first tranche and 180 euros for the five million from the second tranche.
– Housing tax: 80% of homes will be fully exempt on January 1 and the elimination spread over 3 years for the others.
– Childminders and home helpers will now be subject to withholding tax, which is the responsibility of the individual employer to implement, on the site monprelevementalasource.urssaf.fr.
– Tax on commercial travelers, geothermal charge, solidarity contribution on wheat and barley: 18 low-yield taxes are abolished in 2020.
BONUS
– Tax-free bonus for employees (known as “Macron”): renewed but subject to the conclusion of a profit-sharing agreement in the company.
– Alignment of the reduction in contributions from creators of micro-enterprises (self-entrepreneurs) with those of other entrepreneurs, with a discount of 50% only in the first year instead of three declining years (-75% to -25%).
SNCF
– The end of an era: new SNCF recruits will no longer be able to benefit from the status of railway worker, which will continue to apply to the 131,000 people who currently benefit from it.
– The public rail group (GPF), built with three public industrial and commercial establishments or Epic (leading Epic, SNCF Mobilités and SNCF Réseau), becomes the unified public group (GPU), consisting of five public limited companies .
– Homeopathic products will only be reimbursed by the Social Security for up to 15% (compared to 30% previously), a prelude to a total reimbursement from 2021.
– The “angina tests” can be carried out by pharmacists and no longer only by doctors. These tests make it possible to know if the angina is due to a virus or a bacterium, and therefore to avoid the prescription of antibiotics in the first case.
– Full reimbursement of certain glasses, dentures and hearing aids.
– Mandatory defibrillator for establishments receiving the public (ERP) of category 1 to 3, that is to say those welcoming more than 300 people.
HOUSING
Energy renovation of buildings: possibility for low-income households to benefit from a premium paid by the National Housing Agency (ANAH) as soon as they start energy renovation and energy saving works for their housing.
TOBACCO
The price of the pack of 20 cigarettes goes to 9.10 or 9.20 euros depending on the brand.
ENVIRONMENT
Cotton swabs for household use with plastic rod are prohibited for sale.
LAW COURTS
This is one of the main measures of the justice reform promulgated in March: the controversial merger of the district and high courts comes into force.
Local courts par excellence, dealing with small daily disputes, the magistrates’ courts disappear and will either be grouped with the TGI within “judicial courts”, or will become separate chambers of these courts. Fighted by the unions of magistrates and by the lawyers, this reorganization aims to create for the litigant a “single entry door to justice”, with the promise that no site will close.
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