The owners of the 800,000 furnished tourist accommodations in France are wondering how much longer they will be able to rent their properties while benefiting from a tax advantage.
With the housing crisis worsening, the system has been at the heart of an incredible controversy for months.
The examination of a transpartisan bill from Annaïg Le Meur (Renaissance) and Iñaki Echaniz (PS), resumed Monday afternoon, and its most controversial article was voted on: reducing the employment rate to 30%. tax reduction from which income from seasonal rentals benefits, compared to 71% or 50% currently, with an exception in “very sparsely populated rural areas” where the reduction would remain at 71%.
“We must balance taxation between short-term and long-term furnished rentals,”
insists Annaïg Le Meur, MP for Finistère.
Too many employees, students and seasonal workers can no longer find housing.
This reduction was created to encourage tourist accommodation at a time when there was a shortage of it.
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