A transpartisan bill will be examined in the National Assembly at the beginning of December. The aim is to reduce the tax advantage enjoyed by owners of furnished tourist accommodation.
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Tourist accommodation “have a preferential regime, they have all the advantages”, summarizes Annaïg Le Meur, Renaissance MP for Finistère, guest of France Bleu Armorique Tuesday December 5. The National Assembly is voting this week on its proposed transpartisan law which, in the face of the housing shortage, attacks the “tax niche” of furnished tourist accommodation such as Airbnb.
The transpartisan bill was initiated by Annaïg Le Meur (Renaissance) and Iñaki Echaniz (Socialist Party MP). The text was adopted in the Economic Affairs Committee during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Annaïg Le Meur evokes a “favorable regime” : “They have all the advantages of not having to carry out the energy diagnosis for the premises [obligatoire pour louer un logement hors meublé de tourisme]they have very advantageous taxation, and they also have associated income which is rather greater than that of bare rental”says MP Renaissance.
Cities are transforming into “holiday villages”
Elected officials from LR and RN criticized measures unfavorable to “small owners”, and the reduction of the tax deduction divides the presidential camp. Brittany, for example, is the “fourth region with the most second homes”, recalls Annaïg Le Meur. “This creates tensions and there is a real problem of access to housing in our territories,” recalls the MP.
“In terms of tourist accommodation, the number of furnished tourist accommodations has tripled between 2016 and today. These properties are no longer made available for year-round rental and are no longer for the benefit of seasonal workers, workers, employees but also students.
Annaïg Le Meur, Renaissance MP for Finistèreat franceinfo
These furnished tourist accommodations are located “especially on the coastal strip because these are rentals which are intended for tourism, but it is also the metropolises and then it also creates transfers to the surrounding municipalities, which had not anticipated the fact that people, finding no property on the coastal strip, retreat inland and sometimes travel up to 60 km to be able to go to workdeplores the MP. So there is also a need for towns that are on the back of the coast to have to deal with the lack of housing in the coastal strip.”
The elected official from Finistère fears that these cities will transform into “holiday villages” : “These are people who come for short periods of time, for vacations, who do not participate in daily life, who do not consume in the same way, we no longer have consumption linked to commercial activities of typical services dry cleaning, shoe repair, etc. It also creates difficulties living together given that people come for vacation, to party, to rest. They don’t have at all the same rhythm as people who live there. ‘year.”