While the deputies validated Thursday the cap of residential rents at 3.5% for one year, the businesses do not despair of managing to do the same for their commercial leases.
This Friday, after the measure was challenged in the National Assembly as part of discussions on the purchasing power law, a first consultation meeting took place between the office of the Minister Delegate in charge of SMEs, Olivia Grégoire , and representatives of the main federations of lessors and traders.
The goal: to find compromises on a subject that is of great concern to traders.
Up to 20% of turnover
With the recent surge in inflation, which accounts for 75% in the calculation of the commercial rent index (ILC, the basis for calculating their rents), retail businesses fear a surge in their rental charges from september.
And this despite a first revision of the ILC at the beginning of the year which should already have moderated inflation.
"This was acted before the new inflationary context linked to the war in Ukraine
," argues Yohan Petiot, managing director of the Trade Alliance.
“The rent can represent up to 20% of the turnover of the point of sale”
add in a press release six federations of traders, who hope to limit the increase in their rents to 3% in 2023. Some also evoke the track of a new redefinition of the ILC calculation method.
If these requests are variously received by donors, the government wants to move quickly on this consultation to propose solutions on Monday, or at the latest before the examination of the law in public session in the Senate, scheduled for Thursday.
The examination of the text in committee will start on July 25.
