Saintes (Charente Maritime)
A "sling against tax" is currently gaining 67 municipalities in Charente-Maritime and 14 others in Charente.
Their inhabitants and businesses will have to pay the new special equipment tax (TSE) from 2023, which is supposed to finance the construction of the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line (LGV), one of the components of the Grand South West (GPSO).
Their wrong?
Reside, in theory and according to the State, in one of the 2,340 municipalities of New Aquitaine located less than an hour from a station served by the future LGV.
"Absurd"
, retort in unison the elected officials who did not imagine themselves so close to the Saint-Jean station in Bordeaux.
Meeting in recent days in Jonzac (Charente-Maritime), they
"unanimously"
adopted a joint motion demanding
"the immediate withdrawal"
of this TSE.
“If they want this train, let them manage to pay for it”
, summarizes Claude Belot, honorary senator and president of the community of communes (CdC) of Haute Saintonge
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