A man at a gas station.
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+ 10% for tobacco.
+ 7% for gas.
And even "+ 21%" for the CSG.
An illustration seen several million times in a viral Facebook post suggests massive increases in 2021.
This illustration began to be shared on social networks in 2018, and has been very successful in groups of "yellow vests", where it has been regularly shared for more than two years.
At the time, the numbers displayed were already wrong.
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“It's gone for 2021!
According to a visual shared thousands of times on Facebook, this new year would be synonymous with a massive increase in prices and others for the French.
In this illustration, a man, a sort of modern Sisyphus, is decked out with a huge rock symbolizing the taxes which weigh on his back.
Around him, the upcoming increases are detailed, like so many blows to his purchasing power: “Fuel + 36%;
gas + 7%;
stamps + 10%;
CSG + 21%… ”The list goes on.
According to a misleading visual posted on Facebook, the year 2021 would be synonymous with a massive increase in taxes for the French - Tom Hollmann / Facebook
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A reverse image search reveals that this illustration has been circulating on the Internet since the end of 2018. It then enjoyed frank popularity on Facebook groups of "yellow vests" - a movement created at the same time to protest initially against the increase in the carbon tax - where it will be regularly shared for more than two years.
The same illustration was already shared over two years ago, on Facebook groups of - Tom Hollmann / Facebook
In 2018, this illustration was already false.
For example, the price of electricity had increased by 0.8% in February 2018, before falling by 0.3% in August, while the illustration indicated an increase of 17%.
The same goes for technical inspections which, after being reformed in May 2018, then saw their price increase by an average of 12.8% (according to a study by Simplauto.com) and not by 23%, as the document announced. .
What about 2021 then?
Although the price increases are the sad prerogative of the new year, this illustration is not more prophetic for 2021. Take, for example, the stamps (+ 10% in the illustration), whose price has increased on average 4.7% on January 1 and which will no longer be sold below one euro in France.
As for electricity (+ 17% in the illustration), the trend is going well upwards, but in smaller proportions.
The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) has published its draft decisions for the tariffs applicable to the transmission and distribution of electricity applicable on August 1, 2021 and for four years.
The structure provides for "average tariff increases of 1.57% per year for RTE and 1.39% per year for Enedis, ie an increase of around 15 euros in the annual bill of an individual by 2024" .
On the gas side (+ 7% in the illustration), CRE announces that Engie's regulatory tariffs increase by 0.2% on average on January 1.
Tolls, fuel, bank charges, insurance ...
Regarding tolls (+ 1.3% in the illustration), the latter will see their prices increase by around 0.4% in 2021, according to the Reuters news agency.
An increase which should be between 0.30 and 0.65% depending on the road networks.
On the fuel side (+ 12% in the illustration), taxes should not increase in 2021. If an increase in the tax on unleaded was initially planned, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, has , faced with the discontent of professionals in the sector, assured in a press release that "there will be no change in the taxation of petrol SP 95-E10 and SP 95-E5" in 2021.
Bank charges (+ 13% in the illustration) are expected to rise sharply over the year 2021. According to the bank rate comparison site MoneyVox, an average increase of 4% in the rate is expected for a customer profile "Standard".
Bad news for households, according to a study by the specialist firm Facts & Figures, home and auto insurance could undergo an average increase of 1.5 to 2% over the year.
Some good news is still to be expected this year.
The minimum wage, for example, increased by 0.99% on January 1 to reach 1,554.58 euros gross per month, according to a decree recently adopted.
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