“I don’t really see how the government could not apply the law,” said Senator Ian Brossat.

By adopting the draft state budget in 2024 through a new 49.3, the government retained a measure adopted by the Senate which reduces the tax loophole in favor of furnished tourist accommodation. “An error” hailed this Tuesday by communist senator Ian Brossat on franceinfo.

“The only times they do right, they do it by mistake“, quipped communist senator Ian Brossat on franceinfo this Tuesday. The day before in the National Assembly, the government adopted without a vote the draft state budget for 2024 in new reading, thanks to the twenty-second 49.3 of the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Except that in his text, he mistakenly retained the tax loophole enjoyed by rentals of furnished tourist accommodation, such as Airbnb.

A “error“, certainly, but which will not prevent the application of the law, according to the senator. “We are not in an authoritarian regime“, retorts Ian Brossat. “The law is the law. Things were done, certainly by mistake, by the government. It seems moreover that the only times when they do well, they do it by mistake. But in reality, this provision will apply and I do not see how the government could not apply the law“.

A tax reduction which goes from 71 to 30% in tense areas

The one who was deputy in charge of housing at Paris town hall a few months ago says he is satisfied, “because there is no justification for paying less taxes when you rent your home to a tourist on an Airbnb-type platform than when you rent it year-round to an employee“.

This type of measure will allow, according to Ian Brossat, “to favor long-term rentals rather than tourist rentals“.

Currently, rents received from the rental of classified tourist accommodation benefit from a tax reduction of 71%. The government planned, during the first reading of the budget, to reduce this reduction to 50% in tense areas. But senators from several groups introduced an amendment to lower the allowance to 30% in tight areas, with a revenue ceiling lowered to 15,000 euros, and 50% in rural areas.