Airbnb, housing rental site between flourishing individuals in France, paid only 69,168 euros in taxes in France in 2015 with the tax optimization techniques, to the chagrin of hoteliers.
the platform, which prides itself to offer more than 300,000 listings in France on its platform, not doing anything illegal as such, said Le Parisien revealed that information on Thursday.
But when they use the Airbnb service in the country, its second largest market after the United States, customers pay the money to two foreign companies, one Irish and one British, explains the daily.
the hexagonal subsidiary site, SARL France Airbnb, it only deals with marketing and promotion of the brand, a service for which it generated in 2015 a turnover business of EUR 4.96 million and a profit of 166,373 euros, details Le Parisien.
But according to a memo from the law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel conducted in May on behalf of the Association for accommodation and tourism professionals (Ahtop), commissions collected by the Airbnb rental accommodation in France would amount, according to the criteria, at an annual amount between 60 million and 160 million.
– community cheated –
Airbnb denies acting illegally. Questioned by AFP, a spokesman assures that the company “complies with tax laws in countries” where it operates. “Our office in France provides marketing services and pays all applicable taxes,” she said.
But the president of the Ahtop, who filed a complaint to the prosecutor of Paris in November 2015 to denounce the “unfair competition” platforms online furnished rentals, this argument does not hold.
“By cashing commissions in Ireland while the delivery takes place in France between Peter and Paul, if not illegal I do not know what it is” outraged Jean-Bernard Falco to AFP. “If you just say all that is + Ireland, Europe, one has the right to do + we’ll put it all in this case,” he threatens. “But then who will pay our social system?”
Hervé Becam, vice president of the Union of trades and hospitality industries (UMIH), Airbnb is not committing fraud as such.
But the tax structure selected by “tip out all the contradictions in what is happening today on all these platforms, that is of VAT and taxes companies that are beyond the community, “said he.
If hiding behind tax secrecy, the Finance Ministry declined to comment on the tax practices of Airbnb.
“When corporations operate in France and seek to evade taxes, we redress the” still holds to know Bercy.
Several large US multinationals are regularly blamed for wanting to avoid taxes by choosing to settle in countries with more favorable taxation.
the French tax authorities including in the sights of groups like Google and McDonald’s charges against transfers between their operative subsidiaries in France and those established in Ireland or Luxembourg.
Frequently accused of unfair competition and participate in soaring housing prices in large cities, Airbnb has implemented the year last collection of the tourist tax in Paris and Chamonix, and since August 1 in 17 other French cities.
the group, valued according to the American press to $ 30 billion, claims to have collected at total worldwide over 110 million of such taxes
08/11/2016 2:23:57 p.m.. – Paris (AFP) – AFP © 2016
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