Why do towns need permission to raise tax on second-home owners?
Why do towns need permission to raise tax on second-home owners?"
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MORE THAN 3,500 COMMUNES WILL BE ABLE TO RAISE THE TAXE D’HABITATION RATE FOR SECOND HOMES FROM NEXT YEAR, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER AREAS? READER QUESTION: I READ YOUR RECENT ARTICLE ABOUT
HOW MORE COMMUNES WILL NOW BE ABLE TO RAISE TAXE D’HABITATION FOR SECOND-HOME OWNERS, BUT I THOUGHT COMMUNES SET THEIR OWN TAX RATES. CAN THEY NOT ALL CHOOSE TO RAISE THIS? The amount of
taxe d’habitation you pay is calculated using two figures. The first is the valeur locative cadastrale (VLC), an annual amount the property could, in theory, be rented out for. A percentage
rate is then applied to this, which is set by local authorities. Since taxe d’habitation has now been abolished for all main homes, it is correct that any local authority can increase this
percentage rate and it will affect only second-home owners. Yet it has been announced that more than 3,600 communes in zones tendues (areas with housing shortages) are to be allowed to raise
the tax rate by an additional 5% to 60%. So why do they need this power to be defined in a new decree? READ MORE: BREXIT BLAMED AS NUMBER OF BRITONS WITH SECOND HOME IN FRANCE PLUMMETS
Frédéric Zumbiehl, legal expert for the UNPI homeowners’ union, said: “It is because you cannot increase only the taxe d’habitation without increasing the taxe foncière.” The taxe foncière
property tax, which all property-owners pay, has the role of a ‘pivot rate’, meaning various other local taxes cannot be increased by a greater percentage than the taxe foncière. Due to the
extra permission, however, communes in zones tendues will be able to vote for a taxe d’habitation surcharge on second-home owners without raising other taxes, which would have a knock-on
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