Explosion of the property tax in Paris: “We wonder where the money goes…”

2023-09-05 11:57:52

As property tax notices fall into mailboxes and emails, the anger of Parisians grows. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, had clearly announced the color last fall, assuming to go back on her electoral promise not to increase local taxes, but few owners had pushed the vice so far as to calculate what this increase would property tax was going to represent in their budget. And upon receipt of the notice sent by the Directorate General of Finance in recent days, reality is catching up with them.