“There will be no return to housing tax,” says Catherine Vautrin

For the Minister of Partnership with the Territories, reflection must be carried out on a local contribution to relieve the finances of communities. A consultation with elected officials will be opened at the beginning of 2025.

The government firmly reiterated it on Saturday, November 2: “There will be no return to housing tax on main residences”ensures with the Parisian the Minister of Partnership with Territories and Decentralization, Catherine Vautrin. Recently, due to a very degraded budgetary situation for communities, elected officials proposed to return to local taxation, denouncing in passing the elimination of the housing tax on main residences, a measure defended by Emmanuel Macron. Several members of the government had already closed the door to a return of this tax.

In this interview, however, the minister said “ready to resume work relating to taxation which had been started by elected officials from the CFL, the Local Finance Committee. We should probably look at how we can allow communities to better control their resources”she explains, while there are more and more voices to give communities the means to better control their investments.

This project will not take the form of a “new tax”assures Catherine Vautrin, “but we must think about possible participation in living in the town or village. There is nothing free. This point will in any case not be included in this budget. I would like to open a consultation with local elected officials at the start of 2025”. The Association of Mayors of France notably proposes a “citizen contribution to public service”, an idea which is not “not ridiculous”says the minister.