Question 12405 — taxes and duties

Summary

Ms. Yolaine de Courson draws the attention of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts to the increase, since 2013, in the turnover of the French leather industry (+40%) which has led to a very significant increase in the reduction of its assigned tax, paid to the State, which will represent in 2018 more than 3 million euros, or 20% of the amount collected. This causes a considerable deprivation of resources which will not allow to finance the collective actions of the Industrial Technical Center (CTI) and the Professional Economic Development Committee (CTC) of the sector for the benefit of SMEs and VSEs: training, research and development, export, etc. This confiscatory cap makes the French leather sector an exception in the landscape of sectors benefiting from an assigned tax since it is the only one to remit such a percentage of its collection. SO that an increase in the ceiling of the assigned tax has been requested by professionals in the sector for several years, in line with the increase in turnover of the French leather industry and its international development, the MP would like the Government to specify its plans for the assigned taxes, both in terms of the ceiling and the rate of the tax. Indeed, although it fully subscribes to the objective necessary to reduce public spending, it appears counterproductive from an economic point of view that the objective of a reduction of 10 million euros in the resources of the Industrial Technical Centers (CTI) by 2019 and of 30 million euros by the end of the five-year term, involves the homothetic reduction of the ceilings for all the sectors concerned, without taking into account the specificities of each and the impact on these. On the other hand, the desire to lower the tax rate for the French leather industry so that the amount collected does not exceed the ceiling denies it any hope of a gradual increase in its resources. Concerning the French leather sector, a reduction in the ceiling of 6.5% would represent a shortfall by the end of the five-year term of almost 2.5 million euros compared to the existing level, a level already very insufficient compared to its development projects. This reduction would put an immediate halt to the collective projects that CTC is currently carrying out and which could be developed at an industrial level if the ceiling were gradually raised, as has been requested since 2013. Very concretely, this would involve, for example, the industrial development of a unique tool in the world for marking skins to ensure traceability, the creation of a hand exoskeleton to improve working conditions or training actions intended to preserve know-how. Finally, CTC is about to finalize its performance contract with the DGE for the period 2019-2022, based, at a minimum, on sustainable resources. A brutal cut in its budget would render this approach obsolete, as would the signing of this commitment with the State. Also, while the Government is taking proactive measures in favor of SMEs and VSEs, she questions the reasons which push the Government to want to slow down the dynamics of successful SMEs and VSEs in the French leather sector by depriving CTC of the resources necessary to carry out collective actions in their favor and requests the establishment of a moratorium on this project in particular so that all the stakeholders concerned can discuss.

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