The application allows Airbnb to rent private housing. – ISOPIX / SIPA

TAX through accounting techniques, Airbnb, whose activity has exploded in France, managed to pay less tax in 2015 than in 2014 …

This is not a novelty many companies make accounting arrangements that allow them to legally pay (relatively) low taxes in a country where they operate. Airbnb is part of the newspaper Le Parisien publishes this Thursday a dossier on the housing rental website owner.



The subsidiaries of foreign Airbnb manage transactions

Airbnb spent this year the 10 million travelers greeted by a French host since 2008, and the threshold of 300,000 listings in France, its second largest market after the United States. But the company only paid 69,168 euros in taxes in France in 2015, reveals Le Parisien. While activity Airbnb exploded in France, the platform has paid 18% of taxes less in 2015 than in 2014, the newspaper said.

The newspaper s’ examined the workings of this system, which is not illegal, tax optimization. When customers rent or bring into rental housing in France via Airbnb, the transaction (on which the platform collects 12%) is managed by subsidiaries of the company in Ireland (where the tax on corporations, 12, 5% is the lowest in the EU) and the United Kingdom.

the hexagonal subsidiary of the company, SARL France Airbnb, deals only marketing and promotion brand in the country, a benefit for which it generated in 2015 a turnover of EUR 4.96 million and a profit of 166,373 euros, details Le Parisien . “Airbnb’s compliance with tax laws Inthe countries where we operate. Our office in France provides marketing services and pays all applicable taxes, “said the company in Paris .

Airbnb, the capital weighs 30 billion ( about 27 billion euros) in the US financial press, is registered in the State of Delaware in the United States, a tax haven

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A tax repaid to the cities

Frequently criticized by tourism professionals and the hotels, who accuse him of unfair competition, the website has instead set up a collection of tourist tax, first in Paris and Chamonix last year and since August 1 in 17 other French cities. Airbnb has donated 1.17 million euros to the City of Paris, collected for stays between October 1 and December 31, 2015, wrote the deputy RS Eric Woerth in a report carried out in spring 2016, quoted by Le Parisien .

in the newspaper, the deputy PS Yann Galut estimates that the amount of taxes paid in France by Airbnb is “completely incredible.” He expressed a desire “to provide the tax authorities legal tools to compel Airbnb to pay a fair tax in France.” Mid-2014, the owner of Airbnb assured never had a tax audit in France, says Le Parisien.

The secretary general of the CGT Philippe Martinez also reacted . “We need tax reform, there must be sanctions of government,” he said Thursday on France Inter.

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