Question 43597 — cross-border workers

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Mr. Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade questions the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery on the new bilateral tax convention between France and Belgium. Since the planned disappearance of the special status of cross-border worker from the double taxation prevention convention between Belgium and France, cross-border workers who can no longer benefit from this status also lose the benefit of a quota of teleworking days. They therefore experience a change in tax regime from the first day of teleworking. This very important subject, which arises from the total support of citizens for the idea of ​​a united Europe and its freedom of installation, goes beyond a fiscal question. Indeed, teleworking today is as much a question of public health as it is also a question of transport policy and environmental policy, by reducing the number of home-work trips on both sides of the border. Legitimate requests to obtain a certain number of days of teleworking have so far been unsuccessful. The new version of the bilateral tax convention signed on November 9, 2021 does not provide new elements on this subject which is referred to future discussions at OECD level. If the OECD level may seem legitimate to provide a more solution effective on a global subject which goes beyond the Franco-Belgian relationship alone, the delay in obtaining a response, via this channel, to a concrete problem in the lives of thousands of cross-border workers can nevertheless be worrying. He would therefore like to know when the discussion paper on the taxation of teleworking days for cross-border workers will be brought to the attention of the OECD and whether it is possible to consider while waiting for the signing of an amendment to the Franco-Belgian agreement temporarily granting all cross-border workers a certain number of days of teleworking.

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