RESTAURANTS ASK TO LOWER VAT TO 5.5%
A gaggle of restaurateurs led by Olivier Bertrand, president of the group of the identical identify, quantity two in catering in France with a thousand institutions (Burger King, Hippopotamus, and the Parisian brasseries Lipp, la Coupole, Au Pied de cochon, le Procope …), asks the State for “non permanent emergency measures”, together with a “non permanent discount” in VAT from 10% to five.5%, the upkeep of short-time working and exemption from expenses till the top of 2020.
Questioned this Tuesday, the Secretary of State in control of tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne indicated favoring “the extension of the gadgets” – solidarity funds, loans assured by the State … – already arrange in an effort to “assist over a number of months “the restoration of the sector.
