THE OFFS OF LEGENDRE. The new Minister of Territories, Catherine Vautrin, spoke to the Local Finance Committee about the need to recreate, over time, a local tax which would not be the housing tax.
A new local tax? This is what the new Minister of Territories, Catherine Vautrin, suggested on Tuesday with the Minister of Public Accounts Laurent Saint-Martin, before the Local Finance Committee. The two ministers came to present the painful situation to local elected officials before the publication of the PLF 2025: they will have to find five billion in savings.
Obviously, local elected officials raised loud cries, it’s the Republic’s game. And faced with the bronca, a little pushed by the audience, the Minister of Territories, herself a local elected official, recognized that in the long term, it would certainly be necessary to give a local tax with a power of rate to elected officials.
And also
• Voltage on electricity
Bercy, Energie, Matignon: no one agrees on the increase in the TICFE! The electricity tax had been reduced to almost nothing to compensate for soaring energy prices in 2022/2023. But as market prices have collapsed, the tax has skyrocketed. Bercy had planned for a long time to revalue it from 21 to 32 euros per MWh (pre-crisis level); which would bring in around 3.5 billion euros. But the energy shield having cost the state coffers 40 billion, the Ministry of Finance would see itself scrounging up a few additional billions. Hence the idea of increasing the tax to 40 or even 42 euros per MWh, which will bring in an additional 3.5!
Except that at Energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher is strongly opposed to it, recalling that the increase would weigh heavily on businesses. There is no question of going beyond 32 euros per MWh, while the electricity transmission rate (the Turpe) must already be revised upwards in 2025. In Matignon, the third sound of the bell. It is indicated that the tax “will increase until allowing the expected reduction of 9% to 10% next February”. As this depends on future price developments, Matignon is refusing for the moment to give the final figure for the increase in TICFE.
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