DECRYPTION – For local elected officials, the challenge is to finance their public policies.
Some owners may see red when they receive their property tax notice next fall. Marseille, Tours, Strasbourg… Twelve of the 42 largest cities and their intermunicipalities have decided to increase the property tax rates on built and unbuilt properties this year, according to the study on the taxation of large local authorities by the firm FSL , specialist in territorial financial information, published Thursday.
After recent relatively calm years in this very sensitive area, it is clear that elected officials are once again taking over taxation to bail out the coffers. “We have to go back to 2016 to find such a high proportion of territories increasing their rate. Prior to 2016, however, this situation repeated itself regularly.“explains the firm. And to observe an average increase of 1.9% across all of these major cities.
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It is in particular on built land that taxpayers…