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The indicator of unemployment rose from 25

Given the week last to the Prime Minister, the parliamentary evaluation work chaired by the cgsp Caledonian Senator Simon Loueckhote for the overseas (LPOM) is clearly positive. In this progress report, the National Commission for assessing the LPOM (known as Act 2003 Girardin) note that the exemptions of payroll and tax relief devices favored the financing of new equipment, the improvement of productivity and the increase in production capacity, or even the creation of new activities or businesses. "They were also allowed to overcome the macroeconomic shock by companies, namely the increase in the minimum wage by 30 in six years," she says. Thus, the overseas demonstrated in recent years a remarkable economic dynamism to the metropolis. Between 2000 and 2005, numbers of overseas companies rose by more than 14, 5 in Metropolis ( 15.48 in those exempt, stagnation in same sectors in metropolitan France). The indicator of unemployment rose from 25.4 in June 2002 to 21.9 in late September 2006, with a decline of more than 8 points at the meeting.

Full review in 2009

In 2005, the LPOM represented an expense of EUR 843 million for the exemption of social charges and EUR 690 million for the tax exemption for the State. The exemptions have benefited some 40,000 companies the DOM for 180.000 jobs, about 60 of total employment, and tax relief to more than 10,000 overseas operators. "In total, 80 of the local services of the State consider the contribution of the measures of tax exemption essential or useful for the achievement of the overall regional development project", local banks are a great timidity, said the commission that, with this observation, goes on a series of measures to be implemented as early as 2007, which should increase the readability of a devicesometimes opaque, and improve its effectiveness between the reduction of the time for hearing of cases, the granting of the tax exemption to companies to update their social security contributions and that never formed the subject of convictions for illegal work, the fight against the "salami slicing" of records. Seduction projects are indeed subject to certification that beyond the threshold of EUR 4.5 million. "Application hijacking with rules everywhere, the artificial splitting of construction projects, allow to avoid the approval", says the commission. Therefore, in the housing sector, more than 90 of the amounts deferred are without approval.

However, it wasn't until 2009 to get a full review of the LPOM. This first evaluation, who arrives after the review of finance 2007 Bill to the great regret of many parliamentarians, admit that "shortcomings in matters of statistical data limit the current approach and needed to prepare the next triennial review in better conditions". In the case, the Government has obtained the status quo desired on the sensitive record of the advantages granted to the overseas territories and departments. "Need to maintain cost that this need for derogating tools to the common law, including tax and social charges", said Francois Baroin, Minister of the overseas, at the Congress of mayors in November. However, recent months, several attempts to challenge to these costly donations for the finances of the State have been made, on the basis of sometimes severe administrative studies ("Les Echos" July 27 and August 4).