Households will notably be able to benefit from an exceptional period for levying income tax, as well as a suspension of local taxes, according to the Minister Delegate in charge of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal.
Article written by
Published
Update
Reading time : 1 min.
A welcome boost for the French affected by the fires. The government will grant tax aid to homes, businesses and communities affected by the fires that have ravaged France in recent weeks, announced the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, on Monday August 15.
In an interview at Dauphiné liberated (paid article), the Minister Delegate explains that a “fire unit” will be created within a week “to the public finance department, in connection with the Urssaf”, for implement “a kind of tax buffer”. Gabriel Attal evoked “mainly three measures” for affected households: an exceptional delay in collecting income tax, a suspension of local taxes (property tax and housing tax), and a potential downward revision of rental values “depending on the depreciation of the goods”.
Businesses will also benefit from “payment deferrals of tax deadlines” and an accelerated reimbursement of VAT or CICE credits. Finally, “we will continue to increase the resources dedicated to firefighting in the next budget”promised the Minister, “with additional credits for civil security”.
The numerous fires that have affected France in recent weeks, aggravated by repeated heat waves, have burned record surfaces since the start of satellite data collection in 2006, according to the European information system on forest fires. A heavy toll that involves “learn from what happened”notes Gabriel Attal, who assures that “we will develop our means of action and anticipation”. Once the fires are extinguished, Emmanuel Macron will bring together all the actors from the departments concerned in order to reflect on the “fire prevention and firefighting model” in France.