PS MP Iñaki Echaniz advocates a “fiscal justice measure”

“It’s a measure of tax justice,” justifies Tuesday May 21 on franceinfo Iñaki Echaniz, socialist deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques, while senators study several measures aimed at regulating the market for furnished tourist accommodation, such as Airbnb. The PS deputy and the Renaissance deputy for Finistère Annaïg Le Meur are carrying this bill which aims to tackle a criticized tax loophole.

A few hours earlier, still on franceinfo, the director of Airbnb France and Belgium said he was open to a certain change in the regulations. Clément Eulry notably considered that he “we need to give those who do professional rentals more incentive to choose long-term rentals more often”. Deputy Iñaki Echaniz welcomes this outstretched hand, recalling that “so far”, furnished tourist rental platforms “were strongly opposed” to the proposals of elected officials and “regularly attacked the regulations implemented by the municipalities”.

The deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques considers that “the tax loophole no longer makes sense today”. He regrets the difference in tax treatment between owners renting “all year round to residents who bring life to the areas, schools, local businesses [qui n’ont] only 30% reduction”those who rent “much more expensive, participate in a certain form of speculation” and they have “71% reduction and do not participate in the collective effort”. The elected socialist therefore hopes that his bill “will rebalance taxation” and can “encourage owners to do long-term rentals”.

Iñaki Echaniz considers it important to regulate the market, facing “the embolism of the number of furnished tourist accommodation”. He thus explains that we went from “300,000 furnished tourist accommodations in 2016”has “800,000 in 2021” And “a million” Currently. The deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques insists on the fact that “people sleep in their cars” lack of available long-term housing. “Our territories are being emptied of their inhabitants”, he laments.