More than two euros per liter of unleaded 95 or diesel.
The issue of rising fuel prices, a phenomenon observed for several months, is taking hold in the campaign for the presidential election.
For several months, the candidates have been formulating proposals to respond to this increase.
We have verified statements by Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse and Fabien Roussel.
This is one of the campaign issues in the presidential election.
How to respond to the rise in fuel prices which now exceed two euros per liter for unleaded or diesel fuel?
After checking candidate proposals on Ephad,
20 Minutes
looked at the statements of three candidates on this price increase.
Emmanuel Macron: "We are dependent on world prices", he launched on January 25, specifying that "there are very few measures which have a substantial impact on something which does not depend on us, in l species, and which are the world prices"
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Is that fair?
Asked about the rise in fuel prices during a trip on January 25, the President of the Republic and candidate for his re-election pleaded the impotence of the State in the face of this rise, evoking a "dependence" on world prices.
If France actually imports 99% of the oil it consumes (2020 figure), the price at the pump is not made up solely of the cost of this import and its distribution on the territory.
The cost of a barrel on the Rotterdam market and the cost of distribution represented just over half (51.06%) of the price of a liter of diesel on March 4, according to the latest data available on the site of the French Union of Petroleum Industries.
For one liter of SP95, this represented 46.67% of the liter at the pump.
The rest is made up of three taxes: the TICPE, which is fixed and varies between 60 and 70 cents depending on the fuel, the VAT on the TICPE, and finally the VAT, at 20%, which applies to the price of fuel. excluding these two previous taxes.
Fabien Roussel: “We are asking to put back in place what had already been put in place under the Jospin government […], it was the floating TIPP.
It had lowered the price of gasoline by a few cents.
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Is that fair?
Invited by France Info on January 26, the communist presidential candidate proposed to support purchasing power to return to a mechanism that had been applied twenty years ago.
The floating TIPP had been decided by the government of Lionel Jospin (PS) and applied between October 2000 and July 2002. Its goal: "to mitigate the brutal increases in the price of oil" and "to return to the French, in the form of a tax cut , the surplus tax revenue collected by the State”, according to Jean-Marc Ayrault.
The former Prime Minister tabled in 2007, when he was a socialist deputy, a bill aimed at restoring this system.
The Court of Auditors calculated in 2005 that this measure had resulted in a maximum reduction of around 2.19 euro cents per litre.
“Exceptional tax relief or “bonus” of a maximum of 0.88 euro cents per litre” was added to this mechanism.
The measure also resulted in a lack of tax revenue for the State: according to the Court of Auditors, the shortfall from the introduction of the floating TIPP would amount to 2.7 billion euros,
while the increase in prices “resulted in additional VAT receipts of around 1.4 billion euros” over the same period.
Valérie Pécresse: “If a company wants to help an employee who earns less by giving him a tax-free mileage package, it cannot do so.
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Is that fair?
Denouncing a "democratic hell", the candidate Les Républicains for the presidential election clarified her thoughts at the microphone of Europe 1, on October 18: "If we simply said, there, punctually, for three or four months when the gasoline will be very dear, that companies be authorized to give a small tax-exempt advantage to their employees to help them, a boost, well that would be simpler.
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What the law says ?
This distinguishes several scenarios.
If the employee carpools to get to work, he can benefit from a “sustainable mobility package”, explains the URSSAF, provided that an agreement has been signed.
This package is capped at 500 euros per year and per employee.
It is exempt from contributions and social security contributions.
If the employee does not carpool or drive an electric, hybrid or hydrogen car, the employer may pay a mileage allowance calculated on the scale of professional expenses.
An agreement or decision from the employer is required for this support to exist.
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