The Executive Bureau of the Democratic Confederation of Labour (CDT) discussed the draft budget bill number 65.20 for 2021 and the amendments to be presented by the trade union centre's bloc in the Senate during the discussion of the text.
The study was based on the CDT's diagnosis of the national and international situation and the health, economic and social repercussions of Covid-19; repercussions that require a redefinition of public policy priorities in order to achieve the objectives of generalising social security, protecting jobs, integrating the unemployed into the labour market and strengthening purchasing power.
Following the debate, the CDT decided to present thirty proposals for amendments. Here are some of them:
1. Exemption from tax on pensions
2. Cancellation of social solidarity contributions for employees.
3. Reduction of the tax burden for employees by raising the ceiling of exempted income to MAD 50,000 and by revising the shares.
4. Reduction of the value added tax applicable to water, electricity and the Internet.
5. Increase in the percentage of deduction of expenses related to employment or liberal work from 20% to 25%, of family expenses deducted from income tax from MAD 360 to MAD 600 for each person taken in charge by the employee and of the ceiling of the amount deducted to MAD 3600.
6. Integration of all contract teachers (academic staff) into the civil service.
7. Increase in recruitment in health, education and labour inspection.
8. Transformation of the Employment Support Fund into an Unemployment Compensation Fund for graduates and job seekers.
9. Exemption of social work enterprises for public sector workers from taxation on the sum of their activities or operations, as well as the potential income associated with them.
10. Exemption of medicines and pharmaceutical products from value added tax.
11. Transformation of the Coronavirus Management Fund into a permanent fund to manage crises and continue to assist employees who have temporarily lost their jobs.
12. Financing employment funds and extending social protection by introducing a wealth tax and gradually increasing the tax rate on real estate transfers.
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