2023-11-26 19:00:00
NARRATIVE – Paperwork, standards, inconsistencies… Despite multiple attempts at simplification since Georges Pompidou, business leaders are still buckling under the weight of bureaucracy.
«What’s bothering you?» The question was asked point blank by Bruno Le Maire in front of an audience of 250 business leaders gathered on Thursday, November 16 at Ville-aux-Dames (Indre-et-Loire), for the launch of the “Simplification meetings», Yet another attempt to simplify the lives of bosses mired in administrative burdens. A very French reality which is costly to the country, the Senate Delegation for Business having quantified the weight of administrative charges on businesses at 3% of GDP per year. And which is only getting worse as 61% of bosses consider that the obligations linked to the management of their business have increased compared to the start of the previous five-year term, according to a consultation carried out by CCI France in December 2022.
The answers that burst out in the municipal hall for two hours, in front of the Minister of the Economy and the Minister in charge of SMEs Olivia Grégoire, are proof of this. “What bothers me is the paperwork, launches a wine producer. To travel 5 kilometers to collect 300 bottles, I have to fill out 10 sheets in triplicate.» «To sell an item that costs 2 or 3 euros to a customer, I must each time fill out a document with the buyer’s identity document», adds an antique dealer. “The problem is the administration, plussilk a milk producer: the tax service and the agricultural social mutuality do not communicate, and we have to fill out duplicate declarations“. When the president of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME) of Indre-et-Loire speaks, it is to explain having “spent the day filing (his) accounts». «I had to take my car to get my digital identity recognized at La Poste, says the manager. Before, it took me 15 minutes on the Infogreffe website». «I’m fed up with the state of mind of civil servants: we have the impression that, structurally, they don’t like us, the bosses», continues a business manager working in the medico-social sector.
A weight on competitiveness
Grievances that ministers welcome with compassionate sighs and nods of heads. “This is proof that we don’t…
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