Today I came across this in a financial newsletter:
The French government doesn't care about this. So they've recently LOWERED the bar for reporting obligations, requiring a businesses with top-line revenue of just 80,000 euros to submit time consuming and onerous VAT reports to the tax authorities.
Actually, it soundsl iike they RAISED the bar. If people change the standards to make things easier, they lower the bar. If they change the standards that make things harder, they raise the bar.