Question 12422 — businesses

Summary

Mr. Fabrice Barusseau draws the attention of the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce, Crafts, Tourism and Purchasing Power to the financial consequences of the reform of compulsory electronic invoicing for VSEs. As of its generalization, this reform requires companies to use private partner dematerialization platforms (PDP) for the issuance and receipt of invoices, then even though the State had initially committed to providing a free public platform to guarantee the absence of additional costs for the smallest structures. However, business leaders are warning of the new charges induced by this obligation: annual subscriptions which can reach several thousand euros, compliance costs, support and configuration services, representing a significant expense for small businesses whose margins are already severely constrained. For example, some structures estimate this additional cost at more than 7,000 euros excluding taxes per year, to which are added several thousand euros in initial services, for a mission relating to the collection of VAT, for the benefit of the tax administration. These companies feel that an administrative and financial burden additional is transferred to them, without compensation, even though they already contribute fully to the effort to modernize and digitize the economy. This situation is all the more poorly understood as it amounts, in fact, to making the use of private operators obligatory, to the detriment of the promise of free service initially formulated by the State. Thus, he asks what measures the Government intends to take to guarantee that the reform of electronic invoicing does not result in a disguised tax weighing on VSEs, in particular by the effective reestablishment of a free and operational public solution or, failing that, the establishment of financial compensation mechanisms (tax credit, partial coverage of costs, price capping) for the smallest companies. He also wants to know how the Government intends to involve organizations representing VSEs in the assessment of the economic impacts of this reform, in order to preserve the viability and competitiveness of these businesses, which are essential to the local economic fabric.

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