Question 34495 — overseas

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Ms. Maina Sage draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery to the problem encountered by many Polynesian companies who cannot access the support systems for which they are nevertheless eligible, due to lack of a SIREN number. However, the equivalent Polynesian directory, called the TAHITI number, respects the same control conditions and remains subject to the commercial register managed by the State, specifically at the Papeete courthouse. For the same reasons, she points out the barrier to access to online payment platforms. For example, the company Stripe.com, the world leader and main provider of online payment systems for online travel sales sites such as Booking.com, has required a SIREN number and a French bank domiciliation since mid-2020. The ongoing discussions have enabled exemptions which remain fragile. Nearly 80 tourism providers are currently threatened with being removed from an online offering, with no prospects. She recalls having officially contacted the State on June 9, 2020, by letter no. 182/07/20AB to the Minister, to request the issuance of so-called “exempt” SIREN numbers for all Polynesian companies which request them while awaiting, ultimately, a double registration facilitating national and international procedures. Despite the absence of an official response, she thanks the feedback from the State and the ISPF, ensuring the implementation of a solution for the convergence of SIREN and TAHITI numbers, but this work should only be completed at the end of 2021. She therefore asks him if he intends to respond favorably to her request for the emergency issuance of SIREN numbers deviated from all Polynesian companies affected by these issues; to officially inform online financing or payment platforms of the recognition by the French Republic of the TAHITI number, which is well controlled and recorded by State services, emphasizing the discriminatory nature of the condition of French bank domiciliation, French Oceanian banks being subject to a very large extent to same rules as European banks; to do everything possible to accelerate the double registration work planned for the end of 2021, i.e. a year lost for businesses.

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