Property tax : the departments inflate the note – the Voice of The North

significant increases

The factors do not carry good news. The season of local taxes starts in the same time as the fall. The property tax (TF) is payable by the owners opened the ball, which does not go unnoticed to our readers, our pages, “e-Mail” evidence.

Several communities are beneficiaries of this TF (cities, brand, departments) but it is in the occurrence county councils, which have significantly driven this fiscal leverage this year. In march, during the vote on the budget 2016, the elected representatives of the Pas-de-Calais have increased 9.9%, the rate of TF (it is past 20,26 % 22,26 %), an increase of 4 € per tranche of €100.

from the North, in April, the consultants the county has also adopted their budget, validating an increase of 25.7 % in the rate of TF (of 17,06 % to 21,45 %). Here also we took out the calculator : this represents 7.7 € per 100 € (average increase per household of 69 €). Let us repeat here that it is only the part of the département of the property tax.

Not alone

These increases do not arise by chance in 2016. They are the result of three years of significant decline in allocations from the State to the territorial communities. Other departments made use of the fiscal leverage to offset this decline in revenue. The Seine-et-Marne increases its rate of 66 %, the Val-d’oise of 29.7 %, the Loir-et-Cher, 25 %… In all, 36 % of departments have revised their rates of TF to rise this year, according to the very serious Forum for the management of cities and local authorities. the on average, In France, these rates increase to 5.2 %.

And the common and brand ?

of Course, we mean by the departments we respond that they are not only adding to the note of the local taxes. They will be right.

But the Forum has established that, in relation to the share of cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, and inter-communal groups, the average evolution rates of land tax and housing tax (which is their job) was only 1 % in 2016.

does not prevent important differences from one area to the other, our readers have noticed. J. B., of Bergues, note a 50% increase of the column “intercommunal cooperation” of its notice of land tax (on small sums, however). Elsewhere, it is 4, 7 or 9 % increase in the rate of the share of the commune or of the interco.

The debate should continue with the shipment of the taxes of the home paid by the owners and tenants. See you in a month !…

The reasons for the outbreak

” We had no choice, ” repeated Jean-René Lecerf Tuesday during a trip in the Avesnois. Lower provisions Status, weight of the RSA and other allowances… The president of the departmental council of the North, who never ceases to complain about the health of the finances which he inherited, assume the tax rise, which should bring in€ 100 Million, ” fully dedicated to investment “. Before this effort imposed on the North, Jean-René Lecerf (various right) does not want to give the impression of let go of the case. On Wednesday, he was in Paris to protest with his comrades of the assembly of departments of France against the ” withdrawal of the State “. The hand county property tax had not increased since 2009. The elected is squarely committed not to remain president if he fails to lower taxes for 2018 !

“No waiver”

The allocations also drop in the Pas-de-Calais, even the president (socialist) Michel Dagbert puts less ardor to nail the government in the pillory. Here also, the justification for the tax increase, after the ” two years of stability “, by a desire to maintain the level of investment despite the financial context of the tense. This is done primarily in 2016, by the extension of a college in Pernes-en-Artois, the construction of a rescue centre in Hénin-Beaumont, the access to the industrial area of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, work on the RD 939 so-called road of the sea, etc, ” Our community does not waive any of its commitments “, they are ” mandatory or voluntary “. In the eyes of some taxpayers, the problem is there…

What is the property tax?

This is a local tax due annually by owners of real estate, built or not built, according to two criteria : the base (rental value land, the annual rent theoretical less an allowance of 50 %) ; and the rate applied to this base, which is voted on by the beneficiary communities (municipalities, inter-municipal associations, departments). Adds the tax of garbage collection (a separate column). The tax on the property built and remains the only direct taxation for households whose benefit the departments.