More than seven years after candidate Macron's campaign promise, the abolition of the housing tax continues to have consequences, sometimes unexpected.
This Monday, a group of associations pointed out, for example, that it risked depriving a million eligible households of the energy check.
As a reminder, this boost from the State amounting to 150 euros per year on average aims to help beneficiaries pay their electricity bills.
It is paid in the spring to low-income households based on income and household composition.
And this is where the problem lies since, although the administration still has precise information on the evolution of household income, it no longer knows much about their composition since it no longer collects the tax. home (disappeared since last year).
Opening of a “complaints desk”
In an emergency, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, announced that an online “
claims counter
” would be set up before the end of the year for eligible people who have not received their check. at the end of the sending campaign.
On the side of tax agents, the situation is annoying.
National Secretary of the CGT Public Finances, Olivier Villois judges, for example, that the administration did not sufficiently anticipate the difficulties caused by the abolition of the housing tax.
“
We are reaching the end of a logic according to which the DGFiP will adapt to everything.
Political time is not administrative time
,” adds Olivier Brunelle, general secretary of the FO-DGFiP union.
To resolve these difficulties, an avenue would be studied to ask taxpayers to provide information relating to their housing in their income tax return.