As the 2025 budget vote approaches, the Prime Minister validated the creation of a new tax.
Soon white smoke. A question of hours. Gathered in a joint joint committee (CMP), the deputies and senators are currently working on France’s 2025 budget and try to agree on a common version. Their work must succeed this Friday, January 31, then the text will be submitted to the vote of the two assemblies next week. A text whose final structure will have had trouble giving birth: from the first projects brought by Michel Barnier to the adjustments made by his successor François Bayrou, four months have passed.
Among the latest adjustments, the Prime Minister has discreetly decided to set up a new tax. Initially proposed by the senators in December, she received the approval of the head of government in January, despite initial reluctance, and will therefore be integrated into the 2025 finance bill. The CMP has agreed to keep this New measurement.
A tax for the benefit of regions
Who says tax, necessarily says taxpayer. But no fear for households, especially the poorest or the middle class, it is not they who will have to get their hands in their pocket to pay it. These are the companies. This tax is the regional mobility payment. It is completely new.
Since 2019, there have been various mobility payments that went in the funds of the municipalities or inter -municipalities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in particular. However, the regions could not touch 1 cent, while they are competent in the field of transport (TER, bus lines, school transport, etc.).
As of 2026, regions will be able to punctuate 0.15% of the wage bills of companies with at least 11 employees to finance new transport services. One more tax on companies since it will be added to the current mobility payment which returns to local authorities.
This measure is preserved while the Minister of Economy, Eric Lombard, said he was “reserved” on the subject. Indeed, this will lead to additional expenses for companies, in a context where large bosses have recently asserted their dissatisfaction on the cost of labor in France.