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This is the amount of income tax collected in Reunion in 2023 by the regional public finance department. This amount represents 0,4% of the national collection, while Réunion is home to 1,34% of the country's taxpayers. This gap illustrates the low income of households on the island : 75% of them are not taxable....

On March 26, the European Commission validated the possibility of opening public aid to finance the renewal of fishing vessels in Overseas Territories., for a large part of the fleet. The Commission finally recognizes the specificities of overseas fishing compared to those of continental Europe. The Réunion Region immediately welcomed this in a press release.. “Help for...

A “marine renewable energy” unit, co-piloted by the Réunion Region and the prefecture, was officially installed on March 21. It is made up of institutional actors, community representatives, of industrialists, stakeholders from the marine world and environmental protection associations. Its purpose is to monitor the progress of studies of marine energy potential and deposits and to anticipate conflicts..

Reunion Island Tourism and the Réunion Tourism Federation will merge, as Patrick Lebreton announced at the start of the year, first vice-president of the Region and president of the IRT. Next July 1st, the two structures which respectively manage external promotion and internal promotion will be grouped into a single public establishment. The latter will associate the Region and....

The Region has taken action, last March 28, the creation of the House of Cinema and Video Games, structure which aims to take the image industry sectors to a new stage in their structuring and development. Reunion Island has established itself in recent years as a land of cinematographic filming., especially thanks....

The Regional Council of Reunion voted for a loan of 4,5 million euros to Air Austral, last March 28. The community thus confirmed its commitment made three weeks earlier alongside the company's private shareholders., which could no longer remain silent about its difficulties on the eve of the end of its 2023-2024 financial year. The elected officials....

Afnor (French Standardization Association) awarded three new certifications to Reunion companies, April 16 in Saint-Denis. The North Réunion Intercommunal Tourist Office has received ISO 9001 certification, recognizing the quality of its organization. Corem, for its part, obtained QSE certification for its action in terms of quality-safety-environment and Leroy Merlin was ISO certified..

On April 5, the European Commission presented the conclusions of its investigation begun two months earlier into the Corsair restructuring plan presented by the company last December. They are very unfavorable to the carrier which had received support three years ago from various overseas economic players., mainly West Indian. This time, Corsair found....

At the start of the year, Reunion Island Tourism had early announced the excellent figures for 2023 tourist attendance : 556,089 external visitors, up 12% compared to 2022 and even exceeding by 4,2% the 2019 record. The Regional Tourism Observatory confirmed these good results on March 18. The recipes made a....

The Réunion Region signed a sector contract on March 19 with Reunion renewable energy professionals., in order to support the development of the sector. If the island's energy mix will experience a significant greening from this year with the complete conversion of the Port's power plants, of Bois-Rouge and Gol to biomass, he's staying...