Purchasing power: wages, taxes, RSA… what do Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen offer? – Free lunch

The outgoing President of the Republic and the candidate of the National Rally meet again on Sunday April 24 for the second round of the presidential election. We take stock of what Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are proposing with regard to the increase in wages.

A sense of deja vu. New face to face between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the second round, already qualified for the second round of the presidential election in 2017. On April 24, the two candidates will face each other again, vision against vision, program against program… Before that, we take stock of the main proposals in terms of purchasing power and wage increases. What would change for your purchasing power with Emmanuel Macron In his program, he wants: a tripling of the ceiling of the exceptional purchasing power bonus, known as the Macron bonus, not subject to social security contributions and income tax ; the obligation to set up a profit-sharing scheme (Macron bonus, participation or profit-sharing) in any company paying dividends; a reduction in social contributions for the self-employed, leading to an increase in income of €550 for a person receiving the equivalent of the minimum wage. the thaw of the civil service index point, synonymous with an increase by the summer for civil servants. increase in salaries on a case-by-bus basis for city doctors. What would change for your purchasing power with Marine Le Pen The candidate of the National Rally (RN) indicates that she wants to “allow companies to increase wages by 10% (up to three Smic), by exempting this increase from employer contributions” . “Let’s take the concrete example of a company wishing to benefit from this measure: for an employee currently earning 24,000 euros gross annually, under the current system, the company would have to pay 2,100 euros in additional employer contributions per year (for the 10% increase of an employee to the SMIC, it is 1,600 euros of additional contributions).It is this sum that I wish to save companies, in return for the increase in the purchasing power of all their employees”, explained the far-right candidate in a column published by Les Echos in November 2021. The one who qualified for the second round proposes to revalue the index grid for teachers by 3% per year between 2022 and 2027 and to place particular emphasis on the salary at the start of the career. Marine Le Pen also wants a reduction in VAT “from 20% to 5.5% on energy products (fuel, fuel oil, gas and electricity)”. What about social assistance? Emmanuel Macron is studying the possibility of merging most of the aid paid by the Family Allowance Funds (CAF): the Active Solidarity Income (RSA), personalized housing aid (APL) as well as the activity bonus. The Head of State proposed to condition access to the RSA to the exercise of “an effective activity which allows integration”, recalls Dossier Familial. The President of the Republic also defends the device of “solidarity at the source”, which we explained to you in this article. Marine Le Pen for her part indicates in her online program on the Mlafrance.fr site, that she wants a reservation of “social aid for the French”, the “solidarity benefits” such as the RSA or the ASS to be subject to the fulfillment of “five years of work”. For her, it is necessary to “revalue” the Aspa “to €1,000 per month and to increase the small pensions”. What changes for taxes? On the one hand, Emmanuel Macron wants to abolish the TV license fee, on the other, Marine Le Pen wants to abolish income tax for all young people under the age of 30. Same thing for the corporate tax of entrepreneurs who start before their thirties. The RN candidate agrees with the abolition of the contribution to public broadcasting for all French people.