Hit hard by the increase in energy prices, bakers are worried about the explosion of their bills. Guest of Franceinfo on Tuesday January 3, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced that professionals could “to request the deferral of the payment of their taxes and social security contributions” to ease their cash flow. The head of government also wanted them to be able to “spread” energy bills for the first months of the year “to get through this difficult time in terms of cash flow”.
The representatives of the sector meet on Tuesday morning the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, and the Minister Delegate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Olivia Grégoire, “to discuss the consequences of the energy crisis”.
Already, on December 8, Mr. Le Maire wanted to reassure the profession by affirming on RMC that there would be ” no carnage […] We are here to protect bakers and will do whatever is necessary to help them get through the winter months”.
Aid “not sufficiently known”
The government has implemented measures to support professionals and “overall, with these various aids, we cover around 40% of the electricity bill”assured M.me Thick headed. The latter, however, regretted that most of the aid in place is not “not well enough known” companies. The Prime Minister has set the objective of remedying this by recalling that Bruno Le Maire also receives the chambers of commerce and industry, the chambers of trades: “We must all together make this aid known and that companies take it up”. Beyond that, she assured that the prefectures would be mobilized to study the difficulties that would remain ” case by case “.
The president, Emmanuel Macron, will receive bakers on Thursday, on the occasion of the traditional ceremony of the galette des rois at the Elysée.