It was quite easy to predict that the new (optional) tax on second homes would provoke yet another scuffle at the local level.
The Mayor of Nice immediately announced that this fiscal option would be abandoned.
However, as Jean-Christophe Picard (PRG) points out… We are not short on contradictions!
“The revised finance bill for 2014, voted yesterday, introduces a 20% increase in the housing tax in so-called tense areas – such as Nice – on second homes.
It is up to the concerned municipalities to decide whether to apply this surtax, knowing that its revenue (estimated at 150 million euros nationally) goes entirely to them. The city of Nice immediately made it clear that it would not implement this measure…
To summarize: The mayor of Nice prefers to reduce the general deduction rate at the base of the housing tax from 15% to 10% (resulting in an additional 6 million euros in revenue expected) [1], which is a measure affecting everyone, rather than implementing the 20% surtax, which only affects second home owners!
Ah, the mysteries of the “social Gaullism” dear to Christian Estrosi!”
Jean-Christophe Picard, President of PRG 06
