Payment is due no later than the end of September.
And one more bill! September was already full of them, between income tax and property tax, but some French people must not forget to pay a completely different tax, much less well-known, and just as mandatory. Above all, like the rest, it has also increased. An increase in the greatest secrecy, while two million French people must pay it every year. If some have already paid up, others must not forget this deadline to avoid a nasty surprise.
No need to search your mail, your email inbox or your personal space on the tax website, it is not the tax authorities that are asking you for money again. This time, it is the turn of the Regional Center for University and School Works to ask you to pay. In other words, the Crous.
Every year, the organization that governs student life (housing, catering, scholarships) collects a tax. This is paid to universities and other higher education institutions to finance various student life activities (cultural, sports, social, health, preventive or psychological): this is the Student and Campus Life Contribution (CVEC).
Payment is mandatory because, without it, it is not possible to finalize your registration for the upcoming academic year. Its payment therefore only concerns students in higher education and should not be taken lightly. However, while the cost of student life increases year after year, the amount to be paid is more than 100 euros: 103 euros exactly, or 3% more than last year (100€), the increase being calculated on the inflation of the previous calendar year. Payable in cash or by check, it must be paid at the time of registration. The deadline therefore depends on the calendar set by each institution.
However, some cases of exemption exist. Scholarship holders based on social criteria, recipients of an annual allowance granted within the framework of specific annual aid, refugee students, students benefiting from subsidiary protection, as well as students registered as asylum seekers and having the right to remain in the territory are exempt from this tax.