The National Assembly last week voted an increase in the overtime tax exemption ceiling for the year 2022 alone, as part of the debates on the amending finance bill.

Well, the Senate, with a majority on the right, made permanent on Monday evening with the support of the government the increase to 7,500 euros of the ceiling for tax exemption for overtime.

Currently, overtime is tax-exempt up to a ceiling of 5,000 euros per year, with a maximum of 220 hours worked over a year, excluding branch, company or specific collective agreement.

By examining the text in turn at first reading, the Senate voted by a show of hands an amendment by the general rapporteur Jean-François Husson (LR) perpetuating this enhancement.

“The idea of ​​raising the tax exemption ceiling from 5,000 to 7,500 euros is going in the right direction (…), we are ready to make this tax exemption for overtime, increased to 7,500 euros, definitive”, declared the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire, ahead of the debates.

For the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, it "is fully in line with the desire to revalorize work".

"We are in the middle of the night in August to bury the 35 hours"

The rapporteur praised “an interesting response for employees, for companies, for France”.

In addition to a gain in purchasing power, it can also be a solution to the problem of "labour shortage" encountered in several sectors, he developed.

Socialists and Communists, on the contrary, wanted the article to be deleted.

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The Senate also voted, under the vehement protests of the left, the perpetuation of the article opening the possibility for the companies of repurchasing with the employees the days of RTT.

The vote was won by 144 votes against 116. The measure had been voted by the Assembly for 2022 and 2023. "We are in the middle of the night in August to bury the 35 hours", accused the ecologist Thomas Dossus, socialist David Assouline speaking of "coup de force".

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