Three weeks ago, Marguerite*, 84, received in her mailbox the housing tax for her family home in Concarneau (Finistère). “I was a little panicked by the amounts”she confides on the phone. Taxes claim more than €5,000 from him, “an increase of almost €1,500 compared to last year because I paid €3,484”, indicates this Finisterian who has lived in the Paris region for several decades. An increase that she sees as an injustice. “You must be Cresus!”assures the retiree, who sent a letter to the mayor, Marc Bigot, to express her “distress”.
“We didn’t steal it”
“I understand that the idea is to fight against second homes which would be used to make money. But that's not my case: we've never put it up for seasonal rental and in fact we couldn't even do so because it's in far too poor condition inside. We didn't steal it, we bought it with the sweat of our brow because we had no inheritance. I never asked anything…
