bernardd wrote:
- If I consume the electricity produced by my panels, I do not pay 19,6% VAT,
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Logic. VAT is, as its name suggests, a value added tax. So it applies to your sale price excluding VAT (= value of your product).
What is consumed is not valued!
On the other hand, you pay VAT on your installation, the depreciation of which, including VAT, is included in the cost price of your PV electricity (deemed to be excluding VAT, since you do not invoice in this case). This cost price is ... higher than the purchase price from EdF with VAT.
But you're right, you don't pay VAT on electricity.
Note a remarkable peculiarity of VAT on electricity: is subject to VAT one or the other tax that lingers at the bottom of the invoice! The VAT on a tax is quite remarkable!