Question 10924 — value added tax

Summary

Mr. Stéphane Peu questions the Minister of the Economy and Finance following the recent announcements he made proposing to call into question the reduced VAT rate for energy renovation work in buildings. The construction sector has barely recovered from the 2008 crisis. It only started hiring again from 2016. Already at that time, an unpublished report from the Court of Auditors envisaged the return to a VAT at 20%, which the Minister of Housing had then completely excluded, rightly so since it would have led to the loss of several tens of thousands of jobs. This reduced VAT in the general renovation and energy renovation of housing sector is not a tax gift to businesses. On the contrary, it represents an essential incentive for households, who rely on the savings thus made to budget for their expenses. renovation work on their home. It allows low-income households to make investments that they would not otherwise have the means to finance. These renovations also represent a stated objective of the Government, and in particular of the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition which launched, on April 26, 2018, a plan to combat energy poverty in buildings, the objective of which is in particular to eradicate thermal strainers. This ambitious plan sets the objective of renovating 1.5 million housing units considered as such in 10 years. However, this objective would be completely unthinkable if the VAT rate were to increase. Furthermore, it is already possible to deplore the impact that this government announcement will have. In fact, households risk refusing to invest in the coming months, not knowing what VAT amount they will ultimately have to pay to complete their work. They also risk having greater recourse to illegal and undeclared work, even though the construction sector is already considerably affected by this unfair competition. Such an increase in VAT is therefore likely to have serious effects on this sector of activity, but also, ultimately, on expected tax revenues, if households turn away from the offer. legal to prefer an undeclared alternative. While the sector has suffered from the government's tax measures, and particularly the reduction of almost a billion euros in aid under the energy transition tax credit (CITE), and such a choice would be inconsistent with the objectives of combating global warming and equality of households in the face of energy burden, it wishes to know its position on the subject, and in particular whether it plans, in view of the risks that such a variation in the VAT rate would give rise to, to reconsider these recent announcements.

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