5 billion EUR shall enter into force in 2007

Social charges. While the Government had decided to stop the increase in payroll relief gradually made after the introduction of the 35 hours, the head of State has reopened the debate by announcing "the pursuit of loads falling", "in consultation" with the social partners. He did not specify if it is, as promised in 2005, back to zero charges at the level of the minimum wage, but several members of the Government understood as well. Bercy said however that such a measure is not provided, to this day, in the draft budget of the social security for 2007, and whether or not it is still less funded while its cost rose from 1.4 to 2.5 billion euros depending on whether the cuts apply to contributions on work accidents and occupational diseases. However, according to our information, Bercy well currently is a further reduction of expenses. Ceiling relief more requests to be specified: should stop at 1.5, 1.6 or 1.7 SMIC In any case, such a meeting the hostility of the unions, the CFDT prospect denouncing a strategy "limited and questionable." At the Medef, the resumption of the decrease in expenses is included as a retreat from reform of the financing of social protection, announced by Jacques Chirac on 31 December last, which he made no mention in his remarks. Employers see the evidence that the reform of the base of contributions employers is not ripe.

Social dialogue. The social partners welcomed the announcement of a "reform to improve the social dialogue." The President, who mentioned "interesting proposals" of the Chertier report, wants that, "by law, it is possible to touch the code of the work without prior consultation with trade unions and professional organizations. They were heard by Matignon on this subject early July, but there is little chance that the site be successful before the presidential election. As the issue is legally complex. Obviously, the head of State wants to go further than the preamble to the Act 2004 Fillon, who already called on the Government to consult the social partners. Dominique de Villepin in had not ignored in the case of the SCE. To impose such a measure, is needed to even without by the Constitution, as calls it its wishes the Medef and as recommended in the report Chertier, while the Prime Minister is against such an assumption Social law experts suggest an intermediate track through organic text or an act of programming.

Stock options. Not reform, but a framework: Jacques Chirac wanted to calm the debate on stock options. From resume Bill Balladur to prevent social agents of company to exercise their options for the duration of the exercise of their functions, the head of State said "friendly that it governs this system." "I trust the Minister of Finance (...), it is to consult with relevant organisations," he said. Thierry Breton, now in the foreground, is very reluctant to legislate. For employers, Jacques Chirac remains "cautious" and does not call into question the principle of stock options, which partially reassured the Medef.

Taxes. It is the only subject on which the President agreed to talk about balance. In 2002, he was committed to lowering the tax on the income of one third in five years. "I said: there will be 30.". "It has been 17", he acknowledged, with the tax reform passed last year, which sets a new fee structure and introduces the tax shield. Encrypted 3.5 billion EUR, shall enter into force in 2007. But Jacques Chirac brought a precision: "on the 3 and a half million average taxpayers, was 30.". To arrive at this figure, it includes, it seems, the increase in the premium for the job, "negative tax" for active low income households. For the Socialist Party, this calculation is "false". What is certain is that, at end of 2005, the rate of compulsory, 62 of taxes and 38 of social security contributions, had increased from a point of GDP from 2002.