How your concierge company can help an owner optimize their taxes

As a concierge company, you don’t just open doors and manage cleanings: you can also become a real profitability lever for the owners you work with, by helping them lower the tax on their rental income. It’s one more argument to grow your concierge business over the long run.

The actual-expenses regime: your fees are deductible

When an owner entrusts a property to you as a furnished rental, they can opt for the actual-expenses regime under LMNP (France’s non-professional furnished rental tax status). Under it, the actual expenses incurred for the rental activity are deductible, as long as they’re documented and tied to operating the property.

Your concierge fees are part of that. Whether you offer cleaning, check-in or guest support, all of it can be included in their expenses, provided you issue clear invoices (which you can easily do with Unlocker).

Depreciating furniture, and part of the property

An owner under the actual-expenses regime can also depreciate the furniture and equipment you buy or install for them, once they’re recorded on their balance sheet: bed, appliances, dishes… The result is a lower taxable income, year after year.

They can also depreciate the value of the property itself, excluding the land (which is never depreciable). This mechanism is what often makes the actual-expenses regime more attractive than the micro-BIC regime for a property with loan payments or renovation work.

Going further with VAT on para-hotel services

If the owner offers at least three of the four para-hotel services (para-hôtellerie, a VAT regime for rentals that include hotel-like services), namely breakfast, regular cleaning of the premises, linen supply and a front desk, their rental income switches into the VAT regime. The upside: they can recover VAT on certain purchases and work related to the property, the way a hotelier would. This is the killer argument to sign owners and let them recover 20% VAT.

For more advanced structures

Some owners go further when their business grows, for example with an SCI (a French property holding company) taxed under corporate income tax, which allows broader depreciation, or with LMP status (France’s professional furnished rental tax status). These are structures built case by case with an accountant or a legal partner. If you work with one, you can become a real source of information for your owners.

A sales argument for your business

By showing your owners that your concierge company can also help them save on taxes, you build loyalty, you reassure them, and you can convince an owner to entrust you with all their properties thanks to that added value. It’s also what raises the value of your management portfolio the day you want to sell it or grow it. With Unlocker, you easily generate the invoices that justify these expenses, and you give their accountant a useful level of transparency.