Pay your taxes at the same time as your pack of cigarettes, it will now be possible in 600 tobacco shops spread across 10 departments: Corrèze, Côtes-d'Armor, Corse-du-Sud, Gard, Loire, Marne, Oise, Haute-Saône, Vaucluse and Yvelines, with progressive implementation from February 24 to March 4.
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1 euro 80 from the State for each transaction
In addition to local taxes (housing tax, property tax), it will also be possible to pay for hospital costs, canteen and crèche invoices, or even parking tickets. A first test phase, before a full deployment of the device planned for the summer. 6,000 tobacco shops will then be affected. The approach for the tobacconist is simple, he will only have to scan the code of the tax document, as for a Loto ticket and the customer will only have to pay, by card or in cash. For each transaction made, the tobacconist will receive 1 euro 80 from the State.
"The sustainability of trade" for tobacconists
The tobacconist of Maurepas in the Yvelines will be among the first, on March 4, to offer this new service, for him this new offer is a real opportunity. "It is necessary to renew, it is the sustainability of trade". "People when they come back from work, they can come and deposit money, look for a package, pay their taxes: services to show that we are essential", judges the trader.
Customers like Roland are worried about this measure: "It necessarily leads to the closure of tax centers. We pay taxes, it's to have a service. Relocating this to tobacconists, I find it a little too easy ". A fear shared by municipal treasury agents. Jacqueline, who is used to paying by mail, "finds it user-friendly. I like talking to people".