French Saint-Martin business licence reference for habitual independent professional activities, distinguishing the fixed and premises-area components from the separate patente contribution. Covers scope, selected statutory exemptions, area rounding, the component-specific cap, establishment creation, operator changes and filing/payment dates. Includes worked licence examples and flags differences between the official code and business handbook. Patente rates, additional chamber levies and subsidy eligibility are not presumed verified. This source-cited draft requires independent review, current amendment checks and activity-specific classification before use and does not establish comprehensive business-tax coverage.
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| Premises area | Area component | Licence before additional levies |
|---|---|---|
| 40 m² | €0 | €300 |
| 40.9 m² | €0 after rounding area down | €300 |
| 100 m² | 60 × €5 = €300 | €600 |
| 600 m² | €2,800 reduced to €2,500 cap | €2,800 |
Article 1447-0 imposes the annual licence and patente contribution on habitual non-salaried professional activities in Saint-Martin. Bare-property letting without services is outside that charge; furnished/equipped letting or bare letting with services requires the separate analysis specified for each operator. CGI article 1447-0, page 420.
Article 1447-0A contains conditional exemptions, including farmers selling their own produce/animals, persons personally fishing, specified artists selling only their own art, qualifying associations and passenger transport by bus, coach or taxi. Record the precise qualifying activity; do not exempt all businesses described as agricultural, artistic or transport-related. CGI article 1447-0A, pages 420–421.
This Guide uses the official code consolidated through 5 June 2026. Underlying deliberations remain authoritative; subsequent amendments and independent review are outstanding.
Article 1447-0B sets an ordinary fixed component of €300, reduced to €150 for itinerant traders and taxpayers trading retail exclusively on stalls/markets. The area component is €5 per square metre above 40 m², using the statutory floor-area definition and reference period. A fractional square metre in total premises area is rounded down. The area component for the same taxpayer and activity is capped at €2,500. CGI article 1447-0B, page 421.
For a straightforward single-premises case with eligible area A, no exemption or start-up adjustment and the ordinary fixed fee:
Licence = €300 + min(€2,500, €5 × max(floor(A) − 40, 0)).
| Premises area | Area component | Licence before additional levies |
|---|---|---|
| 40 m² | €0 | €300 |
| 40.9 m² | €0 after rounding area down | €300 |
| 100 m² | 60 × €5 = €300 | €600 |
| 600 m² | €2,800 reduced to €2,500 cap | €2,800 |
These examples illustrate article 1447-0B only. They do not include patente or additional chamber levies. The official handbook's wording suggests an overall €2,500 cap, but the code explicitly caps the area component; the ordinary fixed component remains separate. Obtain reconciliation if an administrative assessment applies a different total. CGI article 1447-0B.
The normal reference is the preceding year or the last twelve-month accounting period closed in that year. Creation/operator-change rules modify it. Do not assume current floor area is automatically the correct reference-period area. CGI articles 1447-0D and 1447-0H.
For establishment creation, article 1447-0H(II) removes the area component and patente in the creation year; the fixed licence is €0 conditional on the mandatory declaration. This is not permission to omit filing. The following year's bases use first-year closing premises/assets and annualized receipts as specified there. CGI article 1447-0H, page 423.
An operator change effective 1 January has an express exception: the new operator owes the €300 fixed component plus area and patente based on the predecessor's activity. Do not treat every takeover as a tax-free creation. For genuine cessation, the area component and patente have remaining-month relief subject to the article's restrictions; transfer or disposal of the activity is excluded from that relief. The fixed component remains annual for activity during any part of the year. Same article.
Article 1447-0J bis describes new-enterprise patente abatements of 100% in the following year and 50% in the second following year, with declaration and state-aid conditions. Its reference to Regulation 1407/2013 requires current aid-law reconciliation before claiming relief; this Guide does not treat the abatement as automatically available in 2026. Establishment creation and qualifying new-enterprise relief must be tested separately. CGI article 1447-0J bis, page 425.
Article 1447-0K(I) requires the annual declaration before 1 July. Filing accompanies the full licence amount, half the patente contribution, the licence additional levy and half the patente additional levy. The patente and related additional-levy balance is due 30 November. Rates and relief for these other amounts require a separate calculation. Retain the receipt and display the prescribed annual licence/patente notice as the article requires. CGI article 1447-0K, page 425.
For a start during the year, paragraph II says before 1 July if activity starts before 1 June, and within one month if it starts after 1 June. The quoted wording does not expressly allocate a start on 1 June to either limb; confirm the treatment with the authority rather than inventing a boundary rule. Same article.
Use the official current digital filing procedure linked in the TGCA Guide, with the appropriate DLCP form and tax reference. Maintain evidence of dates, activity, area, relief conditions and amounts paid.
Confirm the activity's scope, who operates it, the reference-period premises, area rounding, component-specific cap and any creation/change conditions. Keep licence, patente and additional levies separately visible.
Source-cited draft awaiting independent source and professional review. Detailed patente valuation/rates, value-added ceilings and minimum charges, chamber levy rates, multi-premises allocation, state-aid eligibility and appeals remain outside the completed calculation scope. A licence calculation is not a total annual business-tax bill.
Contributed by Ryan Duguid.
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