Due to the health crisis, 36% of communities were planning to increase their property tax rates this year, according to a survey by the Association of Mayors of France (AMF). At issue in particular: unprecedented spending for municipalities in 2020 (purchase of masks, hydro-alcoholic gels, etc.) and less revenue linked to the decline in economic activity (closure of museums, etc.), not to mention the abolition of the housing tax on the main residence.
But according to the FSL Cabinet, specializing in territorial financial information, property tax rates should in reality change little.
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Property tax increases of 0.3% to 0.8% on average
According to the FSL Cabinet, few large cities and their own tax groups * will use fiscal leverage. In fact, the rate of property taxes on built and non-built properties is up slightly by 0.3% in 2021.
“This development is higher than those observed in 2019 and 2020 (- 0.4% in 2020; – 0.3% in 2019), but remains lower than the rate dynamics observed in previous post-election years (+ 1.8% in 2015; + 5.1% in 2009) ”, he indicates.
Like cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, cities with 40,000 to 100,000 inhabitants and their groups moderately used their power to rate in 2021. “In these areas, the rate of change in property taxes has increased. increases on average to + 0.8% ”, analyzes the firm.
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Cities of 40,000 to 100,000 inhabitants: an increase of 4.6% in Valence!
In Avignon, Bourg-en-Bresse, Bron, Caluire-et-Cuire, Chalon-sur-Saône, Chambéry, Colmar, Gap, Vaulx-en-Velin or even Vénissieux, the property tax rates on buildings and non-buildings remain the same in 2021 compared to 2020.
However, the inhabitants of Belfort will see their property tax rate on buildings rise by 12.2% (by cumulating the rate of the city and the group of municipalities), to reach the rate of 43.43%. Regarding this same rate, it will increase by 4.6% in Valence, ie a rate of 44.64%.
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Cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants: no increase in Lyon, Grenoble or Annecy
The property tax rates on buildings and non-buildings will not increase this year in Annecy, Besançon, Grenoble, Lyon, Metz, Mulhouse, Nancy, Saint-Étienne and Villeurbanne.
But the property tax on buildings will increase by 4.8% in Strasbourg (by cumulating the rate of the city and the group of municipalities) compared to 2020, to reach the rate of 38.59%. The rate of unbuilt land remains unchanged.
* Group of municipalities with the possibility of levying tax
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