New Calculation rules for VAT will upset the amount of your electricity bill next month.
From August 1 Next, the French who consume the least will see their Electricity bill increase, while on the contrary, the biggest consumers will see them down, reveals RMC CONSO. If this change in the amount of the invoice for some may question, the latter is actually due to drops and increases in several taxes.
Indeed, the TVA On the price of subscriptions will increase, whether for gas or electricity. As a reminder, whether for one or the other, the invoice is made up of two prices, with a subscription which is a fixed part and the amount of energy consumed which is a variable part. However, so far, France applied a reduced VAT of 5.5 % for the fixed share and a nomale VAT of 20 % for the variable share. A double billing that is not not authorized by the European Union that imposes “uniform VAT rate for the same service“Explains the service-public.fr site, which therefore prompted the government to remove the reduced rate on the subscription.
Two taxes will decrease in compensation
While this increase may be difficult to digest for many households, the state has decided to lower other taxes to return “this raising of VAT a painless maximum“, Explains at the microphone of our colleagues Sylvain Le Falher, director of Hello Watt, French start-up specializing in the energy transition of housing. Thus, two other taxes will drop from Friday, namely the foul (price for using public electricity networks), paid by all users of the distribution network to remunerate its ENEDIS manager, and The excise.
And it is the decrease in this last tax, taken directly from the consumption of gas and electricity, which will have the greatest impact on the bill of consumers. Thus, for electricity, its amount will drop from 33.70 euros per MWh to 29.98 euros, a drop of 11 %.
Hello Watt assessed the threshold from which a home will be a winner or losing with the pricing movements. For electricity, it is 3300kWh per year.
