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In ten years, rentals of furnished tourist accommodation have increased sharply. This enthusiasm is encouraged by advantageous taxation. Only, the government could question these privileges.
Tourist furnished rentals are in the sights of Bercy. The government would like to tax property owners more. Today, they benefit from a fixed reduction of 71%more than for other types of rentals. This tax niche was questioned by Bruno Le Maire, Friday, June 9. “There is no reason to keep this taxation which leads to excesses“said the Minister of the Economy on BFM TV. These excesses are all the more palpable as the number of rental properties has exploded. In ten years, we would have gone from 30,000 ads to 750,000 on the site Airbnb.
Towards a decision in October
AT Ares (Gironde)these tourist accommodation which are multiplying are beginning to pose a problem for the mayor, Xavier Deney. He laments: “We are a city that is dying simply because we don’t know how to keep our youth. There are accommodations that are taken for two or three months.“ A whole ecosystem has been created around this market with concierges who take care of handing over the keys. For a professional in the sector, taxing owners more will not make them give up. For their part, the platforms point out that the rental companies are not speculators and that the median income is 3,900 euros per year. The government will make its decision in October.