Question 10241 — press and books

Summary

Ms. Frédérique Dumas draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the growing precariousness of the authors of the book. In line with her question asked to the Government, dated May 23, 2018, the MP recalls that the authors have had to assume a continuous increase in their social charges since 2012 with the establishment of a contribution for professional training, an increase in the contribution basic pension, and the reform of supplementary pension. Added to this is the uncompensated increase in the CSG on January 1, 2018, the implementation on January 1, 2019 of a basic pension deduction for all liable authors, the switch to ACOSS of recoveries made until then by AGESSA, tax withholding at source and soon reforms to professional training and pensions. All these Reforms are essential but they do not take into account, to date, the specificity of the author's profession. Regarding the CSG, a decree published on May 15, 2018 provides for a compensation fund on cultural credits for 2018 but we already know that this system will exclude 190,000 artist authors (including 85,000 book authors) and that moreover, for the future, no lasting solution has been found to date. A mission was jointly entrusted to IGAC and IGAS in order to find concrete solutions by the end of June 2018. What are the results? Regarding retirement, what is the real capacity of Acoss to keep the planned schedule by taking into account all the technical issues and the specificities specific to the population of artist authors? What about, in particular, retired people who have not opened up pension rights, the terms of automatic reimbursement of contributions recovered beyond the ceiling, the possible co-existence of a call for contributions and a retirement withholding tax in 2019, the possibility of spreading contributions over several years in the case of an exceptionally high income one year? What about the future of Agessa? What about also the unconditional opening to all authors of a remuneration in copyright for their related activities or the impact of the bill on the freedom to choose one's professional future? In other words, what political commitments will be made and what concrete measures will be adopted to maintain a specific regime for authors within the framework of current reforms and the pension reform planned by the UNHCR, to ensure that the rights promised, in return for the effective contributions paid by the authors, are real rights, and finally that the transformation of the regime lands equitably for all authors? Can we be assured that all of these rights will be effective on January 1, 2019? If this date could not be respected, she asked if the Government could postpone the date of implementation of these measures.

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