Question 7669 — commerce and crafts

Summary

The Government has initiated an ambitious public health policy in the fight against smoking. It involves in particular increasing taxation, each year, until 2020. Aware of the potential consequences of this policy on the activity of tobacco retailers, the Minister of Action and Public Accounts signed, on February 2, with the confederation of tobacconists, a memorandum of understanding covering the period 2018-2021 on the transformation of the tobacconist network. This new protocol demonstrates the State's strong commitment to supporting the transformation of the tobacconists' network. This protocol effectively establishes the creation of a transformation fund, with an average amount of 20 million euros per year over the duration of the protocol, the objective of which is to support the transformation of the profession of tobacco retailer towards that of tobacco retailer. proximity. In addition, the protocol also aims to support tobacconists whose economic activity would be significantly penalized by the increase in tobacco prices. This involves the implementation of a “transitional discount” aimed at compensating for a drop in turnover greater than 15% in a quarter of year N compared to a quarter of year N-1. The protocol finally confirms the increase in the net discount, which will reach 1.1 points in 2021, which represents an increase in the remuneration rate of almost 16%, which is likely to support the margin of tobacconists. Furthermore, in the event of a change in price, upwards or downwards, the administration asks tobacconists to make a declaration of their stocks in order to adjust the amounts collected for tobacco taxation and those collected for the withholding tax, consisting of the right to license and pension contributions for tobacconists, paid by suppliers on behalf of tobacconists. When prices increase, these amounts are modified upwards and when they fall, they give rise to reimbursement, to the nearest euro, for the benefit of tobacconists. In addition, the total value of the stock of old cigarette packets when the neutral packet was introduced was reimbursed to tobacconists by their suppliers. Thus, the LOGISTA company took back 234.5 tonnes of tobacco and reimbursed 62.8 million euros to tobacco retailers in the form of credits. All of these operations were carried out at no cost to the taxpayer.

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