Budget 2025: Minister of Labor raises the possibility of taxing “retirees who can afford it”

The minister mentioned this possibility. EPA – OLIVIER MATTHYS

While the minister confirmed that the possibility of eliminating a public holiday was completely ruled out, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet returned to the discussions that will take place around the pension reform, saying she was in favor of retirement at 64, “but not for everyone”.

Guest on the show Hello! TF1's morning show, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, Minister for Labor and Employment, spoke about the pension reform, which the left is calling for to be repealed and which will be the subject of dialogue in the coming months. While she says she is in favor of retirement at “64, but not for everyone”, she admits “that there are jobs that are not sustainable for a lifetime”.

The solution would then be to “be able to arrange different career endings. To be able to leave perhaps before, and then above all to arrange career endings for different positions”. A decision “for both more justice but also a capacity to finance our revenue system which needs it”.

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Taxing retirees ?

Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet also buried the idea of ​​eliminating a public holiday, an idea that had germinated under the government of Michel Barnier. The minister also mentioned the proposal to tax “retirees who can afford it”. Thus, she believes that the effort should not be focused solely on “companies” and “workers”. According to BFM, it would be a “personal position” according to the minister's entourage, which would be “not at all on the agenda”, according to someone close to François Bayrou.

The minister also returned to the proposal of 7 hours of work “for free”. A measure that had been voted on last fall in the Senate before the censure of the Barnier government. “It is a proposal that we must study in the context of the parliamentary debate”, she replied. According to the Minister of Labour, Health, Solidarity and Families, Catherine Vautrin, this measure would bring in 2 billion euros per year.