taux de prélèvement

English translation: rate of deduction (from the total research budget)

08:58 Nov 3, 2016
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / university overheads
French term or phrase: taux de prélèvement
In a brochure for a Belgian university about research funding, one of the appendices highlights some points to look out for when drawing up an industrial research contract. Under "Budget et modalités de paiement":

• tenir compte dans la fixation du budget de la participation aux frais généraux (PAFG) (15%) et de la TVA (21%) ;

and there's a footnote linked to 15% that says:
Taux d’application de 15% et **taux de prélèvement** de 13,04%.

Can anyone confirm what this is in connection with contribution to university overheads (PAFG)? There seem to be plenty of examples of "overhead application rate" so that one's fairly certain, but "taux de prélèvement"? I see this is in the glossary as "sampling rate'" but I doubt it's relevant in this context. Levy rate? Just guessing, as I've no idea what it's referring to!
MoiraB
France
Local time: 00:44
English translation:rate of deduction (from the total research budget)
Explanation:
"Budget et modalités de paiement\":

• tenir compte dans la fixation du budget de la participation aux frais généraux (PAFG) (15%) et de la TVA (21%) ;

and there's a footnote linked to 15% that says:

Taux d’application de 15% et taux de prélèvement de 13,04%.

the point of the footnote is to make calculation easier; namely it's about ONE AND SAME "rate of contribution to general costs", the only difference is in what is taken as base value (=100%);

the "contribution rate" is defined as what has to be added to the net amount directly spent on the project, while in practice the "contribution to general costs" will have to be taken away from the total amount allocated to the project.

Taux d’application = percentage of what has to be added to the net amount spent directly on the research project (net/direct spend on the project = base 100)

taux de prélèvement = how much has to be taken away from the total amount spent on the research project as contribution to *general costs" [i.e. participation aux frais généraux (PAFG)] (IOW here: total spend on project = base 100

here 100 (net/direct spend on project) / (100% + 15%) (total budget including PAFG) = 100/115 = 0.86956 complement to 1: 0.13043 i.e 13.04%



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you have something similar with the rate of VAT:

the VAT rate is defined as what has to be added to the net price (say 25%)

while if you want to find the part of the same VAT in the total price if would be 20% (100% - 100%/(100%+25%))
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5 +1rate of deduction (from the total research budget)
Daryo
4rate taken off (for central costs)
dwt2
3rate of levy
AllegroTrans
2Contributions rate/pourcentage
Chakib Roula


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Contributions rate/pourcentage


Explanation:
IMHO

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rate taken off (for central costs)


Explanation:
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rate of levy


Explanation:
i.e. 13.04%

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rate of deduction (from the total research budget)


Explanation:
"Budget et modalités de paiement\":

• tenir compte dans la fixation du budget de la participation aux frais généraux (PAFG) (15%) et de la TVA (21%) ;

and there's a footnote linked to 15% that says:

Taux d’application de 15% et taux de prélèvement de 13,04%.

the point of the footnote is to make calculation easier; namely it's about ONE AND SAME "rate of contribution to general costs", the only difference is in what is taken as base value (=100%);

the "contribution rate" is defined as what has to be added to the net amount directly spent on the project, while in practice the "contribution to general costs" will have to be taken away from the total amount allocated to the project.

Taux d’application = percentage of what has to be added to the net amount spent directly on the research project (net/direct spend on the project = base 100)

taux de prélèvement = how much has to be taken away from the total amount spent on the research project as contribution to *general costs" [i.e. participation aux frais généraux (PAFG)] (IOW here: total spend on project = base 100

here 100 (net/direct spend on project) / (100% + 15%) (total budget including PAFG) = 100/115 = 0.86956 complement to 1: 0.13043 i.e 13.04%



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Note added at 12 hrs (2016-11-03 21:29:02 GMT)
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you have something similar with the rate of VAT:

the VAT rate is defined as what has to be added to the net price (say 25%)

while if you want to find the part of the same VAT in the total price if would be 20% (100% - 100%/(100%+25%))

Daryo
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