Retirees, will you have to pay a new tax to finance dependency?

The Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, says she is in favor of taxing retirees “who can afford it” to finance the loss of autonomy. A proposal which echoes that of imposing seven hours of free work on working people.

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Nothing official yet, but the retirees have been warned. After the now averted threat of a freeze on their basic pension, then that of the removal of their 10% tax deduction on income tax, they could be used to “the national effort to finance dependency and the autonomy branch”announced this Tuesday January 21 on TF1 the Minister responsible for Labor and Employment. Questioned on the already controversial proposal to make employees and civil servants work seven hours per year for free, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet was in favor of it, while emphasizing that “the financing of social protection is increasingly driven by work and therefore by the net salary of workers. This is an avenue that must be looked at with different arrangements because it can relate to people who work but it can also relate to retired people who can afford it”. For the government member, retirees must therefore also contribute to the effort to finance the loss of autonomy.

Retirees already taxed to finance loss of autonomy

This proposed contribution, “that I do myself”specified Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, would not, however, affect all pensioners. “There are different taxes and contributions that could be considered on retirees who can afford them, depending on the level of pension”she continued. To define the scope of French people targeted, the Minister of Labor mentioned the threshold of a net pension of 2,000 or 2,500 euros, for approximately “40% of retirees concerned”. If Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, and her cabinet, questioned by Capitaldid not give more details on this taxation, it could bring “500 to 800 million euros more depending on the threshold that is decided”according to the minister’s calculations.

If such a tax on retirees was voted on by parliamentarians as part of the Social Security Budget for 2025, it would be added to another tax which has applied to pensions since 2013: the additional solidarity contribution for autonomy. This Casawith a rate of 0.3%, is nothing other than the equivalent for pensioners of the solidarity day among working people, implemented in 2004 to finance dependency, following the heatwave of 2003.

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