#CPPE2608767AReduced VAT for certain mobility aids for visually impaired people
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This order adds colored canes, including white-cane type products, to the list of special equipment eligible for France’s reduced VAT rate. It also covers electronic or optronic assistance devices specifically designed to work with those canes. The change mainly affects visually impaired people, retailers, manufacturers, and healthcare or disability support providers. Businesses selling these products should check whether their products meet the description and apply the reduced VAT rate where eligible.
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Key Changes
- Adds colored canes, including white-cane type products, to the reduced VAT eligibility list
- Extends eligibility to electronic or optronic assistance devices designed to work with those canes
- Targets equipment that helps visually impaired people move, orient themselves, signal their presence, or interact with their environment
Obligations
What this law requires
Businesses selling colored canes of the white-cane type, and electronic or optronic assistance devices specially designed to be used with those canes, must treat those products as eligible for the reduced VAT rate when they are intended to facilitate locomotion, spatial orientation, signaling, or social integration of visually impaired persons.