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Tax stamps, it's been a while since the French can buy them in tobacco shops. From Tuesday, you will be able to do the same for taxes or for the payment of the nursery or the canteen of your children. You just have to go to the tobacco shop with the invoice that the town hall sent you by mail or email. You will pay the amount by check, credit card or cash, and using his terminal, the tobacconist will flash the QR code on the invoice.
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This will allow you to track your payment and prevent the administration that you have paid your bill on time and to the nearest penny. This will therefore also be possible for the payment of the balance of your income tax or your property tax, for example. Provided, there, that the sum to be paid is less than 300 euros since the law now requires an online payment for any amount greater than 300 euros.
Not in all tobacco shops
This is a shift from experimentation in 18 departments to generalization throughout the territory. But be careful, not in all tobacco shops. 4 to 5,000 tobacconists located throughout France have chosen to offer this service, which will be provided in parallel with the public finance centers.
In any case initially, because the objective, in the long term, is to eliminate any cash-flow operation at the administration counters, which were formerly called perceptions. The desire is to redeploy agents to user support missions, which the unions denounce. "It is a privatization of the recovery of the state budget," said the CGT in particular.
The Directorate General of Public Finances insists on the increased proximity that this transfer to tobacco shops will entail.