2023-11-06 12:52:17
The indoor sports and fitness sector want to benefit from a reduced VAT rate of 5.5%, like that granted a few days ago to horse riding and esports.
Indoor sports and fitness activities such as climbing, fitness or yoga are demanding from the government this Monday the same tax support as that granted to horse riding and esports, which should benefit from a rate reduced VAT to 5.5% from 2024.
The tax adjustments granted to the activities of equestrian centers and esports competitions as part of the draft budget for 2024 create “a fiscal injustice” which must be “put to an end”, believes the Union Sport et Cycle, which presents itself as the leading professional organization in the sport and leisure sector.
The Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire confirmed on October 26 the reinstatement of the VAT rate of 5.5% on the activities of equestrian centers, and announced a similar reduction in VAT for tickets for events in the e-sport “from January 1, 2024”.
“Two weights, two measures”
Amendments to this effect were in fact retained by the government in the first part of the draft finance law for 2024, adopted without a vote at first reading in the National Assembly at the end of October. The text must nevertheless still be examined in the Senate. “For their part, sporting activities such as climbing, tennis-padel and fitness activities such as fitness and yoga continue to be subject to full-rate VAT (20%, Editor’s note)”, deplores the Union Sport et Cycle (USC) in a press release.
This situation “reinforces the injustice of a double standard”, underlines the USC, recalling that so-called commercial sports leisure activities had “suffered the longest administrative closures during the health crisis, then the consequences of the health crisis. energy”, with the closure of swimming pools and ice rinks in the face of soaring energy bills.
“It is high time to put an end to this tax injustice and to support the players in sport that we are”, write in a column the representatives of the sector, which brings together “around 7,000 establishments”, frequented each year by “17 million French people ” according to USC.
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