How much was your CFE?

AS WE reported in December’s print edition of Connexion, it was hoped that in most parts of France new turnover bandings would limit the CFE business tax to less than €100 for the smallest businesses – but did they?

Connexion is interested in hearing from readers who are auto-entrepreneurs and paid this tax in 2014 at news[at]connexionfrance.com

The CFE tax is an ongoing bugbear for people on this simple small business scheme, who had been repreived from paying it until 2014 pending negotations and reforms.

The main criticism has been that it is not directly proportional to turnover, unlike most of the charges auto-entrepreneurs pay, and involves set minimum payments which can vary around the country. It could therefore, it had been feared, be unfairly high to those with very small earnings, including the many auto-entrepreneurs whose business represents a top-up income or a part-time job.

However, while bodies representing auto-entrepreneurs continue to push for a simpler, fairer version, recent reforms were supposed to help limit the tax somewhat for lower earners and it was estimated that would be less than €100 for most auto-entrepreneurs with turnovers of under €10,000. However it remained possible that in some areas local councils would not have brought in the latest system in time, meaning bills there could have been substantially more.

Connexion would like to know, if you are an auto-entrepreneur, what kind of business you have, in which commune and region you live, roughly what your turnover was and how much you paid in CFE last month. We will be commenting on the findings in the February edition, but will not name individual readers in connection with this unless we gain permission first.