DIFFERENT TAXATION FOR DARK AND WHITE CHOCOLATE IN FRANCE

The tax complexity illustrated by chocolate: 5% for dark chocolate, 20% for milk chocolate

A few hours before Easter, did you know that your choice of chocolate will determine the taxation that will be applied to you?

If you are rather dark chocolate, you will pay only 5.5% VAT.

If you are rather milk chocolate or white, you will pay 20% VAT.

But why this difference in status between those who have a taste for sweet, and those who prefer the very sweet?!

As the State nanny wants to take care of the health of all and guide our choices, it was decided, by a very ingenious article of the General Code of Taxes to punish the greediest. In the Senate language, this is called "behavioral taxation".

And this is how an article 278-0 bis of the CGI devotes this tax difference between the two chocolates!

However, chocolate candies (less than 20g and 5cm) are subject to the reduced rate, so if you buy your tablet cut, you could go from a VAT rate of 20 to 5.5%!

So, for Easter you are rather black or milk?

VAT rates play the game of government patronage

According to the rates of VAT, the government gives good points or bad tax points ... As to the graffiti artists, to whom Bercy has just recognized the status of artist, thus granting the reduced rate of 5.5% to any graffiti.

Saisi!