It's about time the Grandguillaume report arrived, but it won't save 2013, the black year for self-employed entrepreneurs.
With a total of 497,955 new businesses created in the first 11 months of the year, 2013 is the worst year since 2009The year in which the auto-entrepreneur scheme was introduced. In total creation: -3% versus 2012.
However, this result masks two opposite movements:
- 2013 is the worst year in the last 5 years for the creation of auto-entrepreneurs,
- the best year for creations excluding auto-entrepreneurs (fig 1).
Start-ups under the auto-entrepreneur scheme are of course suffering from the crisis, and from the questioning of its terms and conditions in 2013, which the Grandguillaume report only belatedly reassured. The fall was -11.5% between 2012 and 2013, and -24% compared with the best year in 2010. On the other hand, start-ups outside the scheme are doing well, with an increase of +8.1% between the first 11 months of 2012 and the same period in 2013.
Of the total of 241,352 creations excluding auto-entrepreneurs, corporate forms still represent the majority (60%), but remain stable, while creations in the form of sole proprietorships increased significantly by +26% between 2012 and 2013 (fig 2). This is the first time in 5 years that sole proprietorship creation has increased.
In terms of total creation, although auto-entrepreneurs still represent more than one out of two creations, this share, at 51.5% over the first 11 months of the year, is the lowest since the regime was created. (fig3).
Over the period January-November 2013 compared to 2012:
- The most significant declines were in real estate (-9.6%), household services (-8.9%), and construction (-7.4%).
- Conversely, the sectors that are growing are transport and storage (+10.1%), financial and insurance activities (+6.6%), and education, health and social work (+5.6%).