2023-07-04 10:34:03
“The state must be on your side and there can be cancellations […] on a case-by-case basis,” said the boss of Bercy.
The state is stepping up its support for traders affected by the violence last week. Traveling to Essonne, the Minister of Economy and Finance opened the door to cancellations of charges for the professionals concerned. “We will, on all merchants, look at how we can spread the payment of social charges, or even postpone the payment of tax and social security charges.“, declared Bruno Le Maire.
«For the most affected merchants, we could consider cancellations of social and tax charges“, Then added the boss of Bercy, citing the case of professionals who saw their premises”fully burned». «The State must be on your side and there can be cancellations […] case by case“, he specified. Of the “crisis recovery advisors» are also offered, in each department, via the website impots.gouv.frto support the traders concerned.
At the beginning of July, the boss of Bercy had already announced “the postponement of payment of social and tax charges” for traders whose premises had been targeted by the rioters. Some actors, such as Medef, however, requested additional support for the most affected professionals. Invited on France Inter, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux thus claimed, this Tuesday morning, “highly targeted aid“, as “partial unemployment when the store burned down, the moratorium on charges that existed at the time of the Covid“. A way to help small bosses in shock.
“Restore Order”
After visiting several ransacked shops in the small town of Arpajon, Bruno Le Maire insisted that the government would “requisitesto help merchants. Earlier in the day, France insurers called on its members to accept several gestures for their customers hit by the riots, such as an increase in the time limit for declaring the claim, which goes from 5 to 30 days. The Minister of the Economy also recalled that insurers had promised reductions in the amount of deductibles as well as faster compensation.
Bruno Le Maire, however, did not comment on the financial results of the events, believing that it was too early. He thus did not confirm the figure of one billion euros advanced Monday evening by the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux. “The top priority right now is to restore order. Traders must be able to carry out their activity in peace and not suffer gratuitous and unacceptable violence“, repeated the minister during his trip.
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