Expanded aid for businesses closed to fight against the coronavirus or indirectly affected by these measures will be announced next week, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday on France Info.
"
The Solidarity Fund, we will strengthen it
", while "
today, it is limited to companies with up to 20 employees, we must see if we can not increase this threshold,
" said Bruno Le Maire.
"
It is a fair demand, and in general this government has a habit of responding positively to fair demands,
" he said, responding to a request from employers.
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He also ruled that the 80% drop in turnover required for access to this fund, which can go up to 10,000 euros, "
is too much
".
"
From next week, with Jean Castex, we will present a new threshold and we will see what this threshold will be,
" said the Minister of the Economy, who will again receive officials from the sector on Tuesday afternoon.
The new measures will be presented to an interministerial committee on tourism, said Bruno Le Maire.
He also said he wanted to integrate into the solidarity fund "
other sectors which are side by side with the crisis and yet are taking it head-on
", citing "the
whole event sector
", florists, graphic designers, because "
There are no more boxes to invite to a wedding
" or photographers because "
today the parties where we invite photographers, there are not many
".
Bruno Le Maire also said he was in favor of an amendment to the 2021 finance bill in the direction of SMEs defended by the deputy LREM Laurent Saint-Martin, general rapporteur of the budget, who proposes an increase from 7.6 to 10 million euros of the turnover limit to benefit from a reduced corporate tax rate.
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The minister finally declared himself in favor of a one year extension, until the end of 2021, of the income tax abatement for an investment in an SME.
