Question 10614 — value added tax

Summary

Mr. Antoine Savignat draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy and Finance to the questioning of the reduced VAT rate for energy renovation work in buildings. While the Government wants craft construction companies in particular to lead the renovation of 500,000 homes per year, reduced VAT in construction is not a "gift" given to businesses. In fact, reduced VAT is an aid tax provided to customers and support for the purchasing power of households when they carry out renovation work. On April 26, 2018, the minister unveiled a plan to combat energy poverty in buildings. The aim of this plan is to eradicate thermal passions in order to renovate in 10 years the 1.5 million thermal sieves inhabited by low-income owner households. The Government having set itself the objective to financially support 150,000 renovations of this type each year. However, by increasing VAT on the work concerned, such an objective is no longer only ambitious but completely unrealistic. Indeed, the possible abolition of reduced rate VAT would primarily penalize households, and would not make it possible to achieve the announced renovation objectives and the purchasing power of the most modest. Question this VAT, after having reduced aid by almost a billion euros in 2018 under the CITE, would put a stop to the priority renovation market. He asks him if the Government plans to take into account the difficulties that such a measure would cause and if it intends to renounce the questioning of reduced rate VAT in construction.

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