“Additional help would be welcome,” says young entrepreneur

Franceinfo surveys the French and their expectations of Michel Barnier’s new government. On Thursday, we speak to two young entrepreneurs who share their questions about taxation and the cost of labor.

Meeting two young entrepreneurs, as the new Prime Minister Michel Barnier indicated that his government will be named “next week”At the head of small and recent businesses, Cécile Colas and Sébastien Worms share their questions about aid and their fears about corporate taxation as well as the cost of labor.

In a warehouse in Seine-Saint-Denis, Cécile Colas, head of Seconde Oeuvre, is busy. “There are building materials that we want to reuse, parquet, tiles, radiators…” she explains. Her small business, created in 2022, intervenes during building demolitions to reduce the amount of waste by recovering what can be reused. “I am completely in the real economy. You have to go to the construction site, dismantle the materials, diagnose them, recover them, potentially recondition them, store them.”lists the young entrepreneur.

And while she welcomes certain measures taken by Emmanuel Macron, including a law in 2020 which requires the State and local authorities to purchase a certain number of second-hand products, Cécile Colas regrets the absence of reduced VAT on resale demanded by players in the sector. “I think that today, it is not at all relevant for the government, but to develop certain markets, it is certain that additional aid would be welcome”she emphasizes.

Conversely, she fears that the credits allocated to the ecological transition will be affected by budgetary constraints, as well as an increase in corporate taxation. “We hear so many things from the presidential majority, but also from other political forces, that we are afraid of corporate taxes, that all of this could increase. Obviously, big companies do tax optimization, but we don’t have much time to do that.”explains Cécile Colas.

“I beg parliamentarians: ‘please, lighten this labor code, it’s a nightmare'”

Sébastien Worms, business leader

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An opinion shared by Sébastien Worms, who co-founded Vitaline in 2016. The company produces nutritious, low-sugar drinks and cereal bars and has around fifteen employees. But he also has another major concern: “As a start-up, our first issue is the cost of labor. There is the complexity of hiring, the administrative complexity, the social charges… The whole sum of the cost of labor in the broad sense. Any simplification in this sense would be a breath of fresh air.” Without, however, having too many illusions about a real change with the arrival of a new government.