Coronavirus: Gérald Darmanin calls for donations for companies

Gérald Darmanin is launching a “call for national solidarity” to support businesses in difficulty due to the coronavirus epidemic.

On Twitter and in an interview with Le Figaro, the Minister of Action and Public Accounts announces that individuals and businesses, "many of whom ask how to help", "will be able to do so soon, via a donation platform that we are going to put online ".

I make a great appeal for national solidarity. A donation platform will be put online to allow all those who can, individuals or businesses, to make their contribution to the nation's solidarity effort towards the most affected.https: //t.co/Eu7QiVKKHC

"For those who can, especially for businesses whose activity continues or which are the least affected, it is a way of making their contribution to the effort of solidarity of the nation towards those who are in economic situations the most difficult ”, specifies the minister in the Figaro.

Gérald Darmanin specifies that “507,000 companies with less than 50 employees asked that their payment deadline for social contributions which fell on March 15 be postponed, which is equivalent to 3.8 billion euros in contributions which have not taken from the 9 billion euros then called ”.

The deferral of tax and social charges, as well as the strengthening of the partial unemployment scheme, is part of the arsenal of measures deployed by the government to help businesses overcome the coronavirus crisis.

The executive has also planned to create a solidarity fund, dedicated to very small businesses and the self-employed, in order to be able to pay emergency aid of 1,500 euros to those whose turnover is plummeting.

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The call for donations by Gérald Darmanin did not fail to react, particularly on the side of France Insoumise. “Darmanin is begging instead of restoring the ISF. Is this a test to measure the country's outrage capacity? », Quipped Jean-Luc Mélenchon in particular.

#Darmanin is begging instead of restoring the ISF. Is this a test to measure the country's outrage capacity?