CORONAVIVUS: support measures for businesses
To enable businesses to get through the ongoing health, economic and social crisis, several measures have been announced by the government. Even if the application procedures are not clarified so far for all these measures, AMATEOS, your accountant in Rouen and Paris, gives you a quick decryption:
- Payment deadlines for taxes and social security contributions
- Childcare
- Paid leave
- Partial unemployment
- Telecommuting
Payment deadlines for taxes and social security contributions.
Social contributions:
The USSRAF network today announced the possibility of deferring social security contributions due to 15 March 2020 for three months.
Taxes:
On 12th March the President of the Republic announced payment deadlines for taxes on companies experiencing difficulties.
Without specifying the modalities of application at this time, it is the common law procedure that is in force.
17/03/2020: It should be noted that to date, only direct taxes are affected by this latitude. In an internal memo to the tax administration, VAT and the levy at source were expressly excluded. However, the same note states that no penalty will be applied on indirect taxes. We remind you, however, that an internal memo has a lower legal value than the law, decrees or regulations.
Childcare
The closure of all schools was announced from Monday, March 16. Scheduled for a minimum of 15 days, it could extend to the spring school holidays.
For parents who need to care for their children, there is a scheme similar to the daily allowances, with the following characteristics:
1. No waiting period
2. Only one of the two parents at a time (certificate on the honour to be expected)
3. For now for a maximum of 20 days.
Paid leave
Any employer can ask an employee who has already placed his leave to move them to correspond to the period of low activity.
An employer cannot require an employee who has not taken time off to do so outside the legal framework (two-month notice period).
Partial unemployment
The President of the Republic, in his allowance of 12 March, announced the full assumption by the State of the costs of partial unemployment.
The modalities for implementing this measure are yet to be clarified, as this coverage is normally the result of unemployment insurance, limited to the minimum wage and the supplement between the real and minimum wage is subject to charges Social.
17/03/2020: we are still waiting for a decree on partial unemployment.
However, the information released by the Ministry of Labour states (no legal basis to date):
- companies will have 30 days to declare partial unemployment, with retroactive effect
- the partial activity scheme should cover 100% of compensation paid to employees by companies, up to a maximum of 4.5 SMIC.
It should be noted that there is still no mention of payroll taxes on the sums in question. These should be limited to CGS/CRDS, which would be close to zero for salaries around the SMIC.
Moreover, the issue of collective agreements that ensure a total wage maintenance in the event of partial unemployment is also not addressed to date.
Telecommuting
Telework at the employee's request cannot be refused by the employer in the current context, under the employee's duty of security.
17/03/2020: Following the announcements of the President of the Republic on 15/03/2020, the Ministry of Labour informs that, in the context of containment, telework is now the rule and that only jobs that cannot be exercised in this context will be able to justify professional travel. It is therefore now obliged for the employer to consider all necessary measures for telework.