After a 35% decrease in previous years, the 2018 Finance Law plans a further reduction of 17% in the tax resources of the CCIs (Chambers of Commerce and Industry).
It is known that the fair tax is the one that others pay… no need to draw a picture to explain it!
The fact remains that public spending (taken in its broadest sense), which everyone unanimously demands to be severely reduced, has actually increased even in times of crisis: €1,118 billion in 2011 and €1,257 billion in 2017, an increase of €139 billion.
They had to start somewhere, the government must have thought with the faith of novices who always believe they can succeed where others have not.
That’s not taking into account the interests of each party. Everyone does an irreplaceable job and… in the general interest (it goes without saying).
Taxing others is good, but “me neither”!
How hard it is to go on a diet!!!
Once again, it will be €3 million less for the CCI Nice Côte d’Azur.
Hence the anger of Jean-Pierre Savarino, its president.
What does this additional reduction mean for the CCI Nice Côte d’Azur?
The tax amounts to 25% of a budget that is €70 million for us. The rest, 75%, is what we generate. But if the €3 million from the tax is taken away, we will have to reduce our activities, be less involved, remove support at the level of sectors, unions, federations. Not to mention that we have significant ongoing investments with the apprenticeship campus in Nice, the village by CA in Sophia, the ISN (International School of Nice), the ports… These necessary investments for the economy of the Alpes-Maritimes can only be made if the CCI is healthy.
His conclusion is predictable: “On one hand, the State asks us to act as a relay with businesses, to be dynamic, present on the ground, and on the other hand, it deprives us of the means. I don’t understand it.”
