The National Assembly will examine next week a bill aimed at reducing the tax advantage enjoyed by owners who use Airbnb or Booking. Green MP Julien Bayou denounces an “anomaly” which results in the “disappearance of permanent housing”.
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A transpartisan bill will be examined in the National Assembly at the beginning of December, the aim of which is to reduce the tax advantage enjoyed by owners of furnished tourist accommodation. In front of the “disappearance of permanent housing” linked to the use of services like Airbnb, Abritel or Booking, Julien Bayou, environmentalist deputy invited to franceinfo on Thursday November 30, defends the “need to frame” these rentals and welcomes the bill which tackles a “taxation encourages crime”.
Also nicknamed “Airbnb tax niche”, this provision allows owners of furnished tourist accommodation who rent out their property to benefit from a flat-rate reduction of 71% on the rents received, while it is 50% for so-called “classic” rentals. . “It’s incomprehensible”it’s a “anomaly”deplores Julien Bayou, which results in the “disappearance of permanent housing”whereas it would rather be “advantage long-term rental, that which is useful to the territories, to public services, to local businesses”.
Especially since, according to him, this does not concern small owners, “the couple who puts a little butter in the spinach for two or three weeks”but unlike multi-owners. “We are facing colossal reductions which are not justified”he judges.
Julien Bayou sees it “a tax system that encourages crime”. He says he regrets the opposition from the government and the right: “We worked in committee to eliminate this tax loophole and it is true that several times we came up against a government which said ‘Wow, wait! On that point, having additional tax revenue poses a problem for us. issue'”.
