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PRESS RELEASE
LIFE TAX & VEHICLE RENT TAX
CUSTOMS MAINTAIN THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF THESE TAXES
As a result of the signing on 18 March 2014 of a management agreement with the Directorate-General for Customs and Excise, the local authority transferred the management and control of the residence tax and the rental tax. Vehicles at customs (deliberation of 11 July 2014). This transfer is now effective and results in a change in reporting procedures.
The tourist tax and the tax on the rental of vehicles are now exclusively managed by the services of the Regional Directorate of Customs and Excise of Guadeloupe represented in Saint-Martin by the "Customs and Tax Center" located at the following address:
CUSTOMS AND CUSTOMS FIELD OF SAINT-MARTIN
Commercial port of Galisbay-Bienvenue
Port Establishment Building
BP 1175 - 97062 ST MARTIN CEDEX
Phone: 0590 29 55 48
The collected tax must be liquidated from new printed materials available at the Customs and Tax Center.
These prints and the corresponding notices are also available for download from the community website: www.com-saint-martin.fr
The nature of these taxes and their rates remain unchanged: these are indirect taxes to be paid by customers and to be included as such on the invoices. Responsible enterprises are simply responsible for collecting them from customers and returning the corresponding product to the community every month.
The rate of these taxes remains fixed at 4%. Control of these two taxes now rests with customs and taxation officers who will make use of all the prerogatives conferred on them by their statute.
Therefore, in the event of insufficiency or omission of a declaration during the last three years and in order to avoid the implementation of such controls, taxpayers are invited to contact the agents who will accompany them in this process. Regularization. Moreover, taxpayers and intermediaries (real estate agencies in particular) are informed that the agents of the cluster
Customs and tax authorities have already scheduled field trips in order to provide direct information to operators.
Contacts:
On applicable tax regulations
Taxation of the community
David.girardot@com-saint-martin.fr
Odile.vainqueur@com-saint-martin.fr
Phone: 05 90 29 56 20
On the methods of declaration and payment, control and regularization
Customs and tax division (State services)
Mail: pdf-stmartin@douane.finances.gouv.fr
Phone (local tax): 06 90 22 29 68
Tel (tax on vehicle rentals): 06 90 22 29 69
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