Hi, I'm looking for a sample debt collection letter in french. The customer (a local authority, believe it or not) has still to pay a portion of an invoice (the VAT in fact) outstanding from January, despite numerous reminders. We are willing to go to the poursuite office but would rather not. I think it's sheer inefficiency rather than unwillingness to pay that's the problem.

If anyone has anything of use I'd appreciate it. Fortunately, this is our one and only bad debt in 5 years but I think it would still be useful to have something readily available to use as and when.