End of the tax flour and the 21 other small fees

The government has decided to remove, due 2019, for approximately 150 million euros of taxes to be obsolete and not cost-effective.

The executive tackles (cautiously) to the tax complexity. In its draft of finance law (PLF) in 2019, which will be presented next Tuesday, the government plans to remove 22 "small taxes", according to an information of the Parisian. Taxes as well referred to as they relate to the State not less than 150 million euros per year.

Simplify the bush tax was a promise of Emmanuel Macron, and a willingness already shown by Prime minister Edouard Philippe in the spring. Bercy has therefore made his choice among the 192 taxes listed by the Inspection general of finance (IGF) in 2014, and has selected a twenty, for a total amount of approximately 150 million euros.

They may cost more than it report

If these fees are in the viewfinder of Bercy, it is because they are a non-sense to the public finances. Some would even say nothing more to the State. "On certain taxes, the costs of treatment are 43 times higher than those of taxes to more strong performance," said the Council of compulsory levies to Paris.

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This is the end of "the tax on flour, meal and groats of common wheat", which reports 64.3 million euros per year, but only a part, according to the Court of accounts, of those "whose cost management is the most" high.

The "annual tax on mobile homes land" (caravans), also disappears, just as the "collection of frontier insurance auto" or the "tax on the wood and plans vine". To them three, they were barely 600 600 euros to public finances, of which 600 000 just for the last.

other next steps

In 2014, the IGF recommended to remove between 90 and 120 of these taxes to focus "the funding of public actors on a limited number of major charges". With 22 charges dropped, the government is still far short of the recommendations, but the department promises to "other steps in the years to come."

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It must be said that France is distinguished by the number of these "small fees", very often unknown, such as the "tax-country skiing", that is worth approximately 10 million euros per year.