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The idea of a one-euro tax on home deliveries of parcels ordered on the internet to help local businesses is "a bad answer" to "a good question," said Friday the Minister of Public Accounts, Gérald Darmanin. As part of the review of the draft budget 2019, Véronique Louwagie (LR) defended an amendment incorporating a proposal to this effect from the Association of Mayors of France (AMF).
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The idea, which had also been brought in vain by elected LREM in committee, is to create a flat tax of 1 euro on home deliveries ordered by electronic means to finance a reduction in the property tax on local shops. "This is a subject that has made a little ink, but it is also a subject that must be looked at with a little hindsight," said MP Gerald Darmanin. "It's a good question but a bad answer," he added, not least because "obviously the tax will be pbaded on to people." It will also create "a problem in the problem" by destroying "the competitiveness of French companies," he said, citing as an example Les 3 Suisses or La Redoute. "You are going to kill this kind of French companies", which make deliveries via internet.
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On the other hand, the minister said he was ready to "imagine something that affects foreign platforms" while respecting European law and trade treaties, evoking future discussions as part of the 2019 review of the draft budget dedicated to communities. Véronique Louwagie withdrew her amendment, intended, according to her, to open the debate on "the problem" of the disparity between physical trade and e-commerce, and the need for a "response in terms of local taxation". While agreeing with the objective, other elected officials also observed, like Eric Woerth (LR) or Amelie de Montchalin (LREM), that the tool was "not the good" . Amelie de Montchalin advocated "strongly support the proposal of Minister Bruno Le Maire on a taxation of large e-retailers and digital players based on turnover", which would provide "part of the solution."
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