About the environmental bonus

If I ordered my car just before the publication of the decree, will I be able to claim the €5,000?
A priori, yes… Under one condition: the vehicle must be delivered no later than three months from the date of issuance of the specified order.
Can I get a bonus (or, accordingly, social leasing) if I received it in 2023?
There is none. From January 1, 2023, you can only receive a bonus every three years. If you bought it last year on a new car, you won’t be able to claim it in 2024. As a result, you will not be able to take advantage of social leasing, a subsidy from the government of up to €13,000, which includes a bonus of €7,000.
If social leasing is too expensive, is it likely that the bonus amount will be reduced?
It is possible. The state has planned a package of €1.5 billion for all purchase aid for 2024. This is 200 million less than last year. However, the painful cost of social leasing may double — from 250 million to more than 500! Since then, there are two options: either to increase the total budget, or to decrease the size of the bonus…

About social leasing

Is the number of beneficiaries of social leasing limited?
No, but. After all, no quota, but the government just announced the end of the holidays. It is not surprising that there is success: from the originally planned 20,000 cars, we have already more than doubled. More than 50,000 requests have been registered. However, by 2025, the government plans to introduce a second social leasing.
There seems to be a concern about the basic tax revenue between premium and social leasing. It’s true ?
Absolutely. Let’s try to keep it simple: on the one hand, the maximum reference tax revenue (RFR) per unit to claim the bonus of €7,000 (instead of €5,000) is €14,089. On the other hand, the maximum RFR for social leasing is €15,399. So a person whose RFR is between the two (say €15,200) ticks the box for social leasing (provided, let’s recall, that they drive more than 15 km a day to go to work by car, or more than 8,000 km per year in a professional context), but not the €7,000 bonus. However, these two devices are completely connected! Fortunately, this ‘French-style’ tax discrepancy will be addressed in the new Bonus Decree, which will align the maximum RFR of super bonuses with social rent (ie €15,399). In the meantime, producers who offer this “electricity for (more or less) 100 euros/month” are invited to postpone the first rental payment by their customers to a date after the publication of the aforementioned decree.

Is a sticker affixed to cars leased under social leasing?
So. This is even stated in the decree that introduced the system: “A sticker stating that the purchase of a vehicle is subject to state aid […]fixed on the vehicle by the legal entity that provided assistance in advance”. On the other hand, once you leave the dealership, you do with it what you will…

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