Question 38367 — liberal professions

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Mr. Florian Bachelier draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery to a situation of abuse of dominant position by an accounting software publisher, the company CEGID, which would penalize a large number of accountants. The company CEGID, the main provider of payroll management and processing solutions, sold to an American pension fund in 2016, has decided unilaterally to remove the possibility for accountants to use the CEGID software on their own servers from December 31, 2021. This decision forced accountants to change their practices and generated significant additional costs. In fact, they need to build a new SDSL line and carry out the data migration. In addition, the repurchase of licenses is necessary since when they are dematerialized, they can no longer be shared. However, in the period of unprecedented health and economic crisis that the country is experiencing, this obligation represents a heavy investment for all accounting firms. The CEGID company holds nearly 60% of the accountant license market, which complicates the negotiation margin. Faced with this observation, it appears that the solution consists of changing technical partners. The deputy therefore warns of the worrying situation of accountants for whom bringing legal proceedings against CEGID on the grounds of abuse of dominant position becomes an option of recourse. He asks what levers the State can activate to obtain from CEGID rates adapted to the economic realities faced by accounting firms.

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