The rant of a mayor of Ille-et-Vilaine against a “new unfair tax”

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« And new tax backwards in history, unfairpenalizing work and investment: a real idea far left demagogic for an association of elected officials from now on discredited ! »

The opinion ofAymar de Gouvion Saint-Cyr is decided. The advisor departmental of Ille-et-Vilaine (Union of the Right and Center) and maire des Portes du Coglais, near Fougères, refuses the idea of ​​a new tax intended for communities.

“Our municipalities are well managed”

A opinion which is opposed to that developed by the president of AMRF(Association of rural mayors of France), Michel Fournier, whom he describes as ” pathetic “as part of the debate on the return of the tax residential.

While he was the guest of France Info, Sunday November 3, the latter in fact called for the establishment of a new contribution based “no longer on the rental value, as was the case with the housing tax, but on the income ».

Faced with this, Aymar de Gouvion Saint-Cyr maintains that “our rural communities are well managed and that they have budgets to balance “, adding that “the difficultiesfinancial problems that the country is currently facing are not the result of communitiesterritorial”.

Three reservations

Based on this observation, he issues three reservationsclose to those expressed by David Lisnard president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF):

• “By being based on the income this tax would once again affect the same taxpayers while, I remind you, there already exists a taxon income. »
• “It would penalize fruits of labor and investment, this is a bad sign to give. »
• “This contribution would once again hit and penalize the owners which already support a property tax having increased after the abolition, by the President of the Republic, of the housing tax. »

The mayor of Portes du Coglais therefore says vigilant as to the detail of the text of the law that will be proposed, because “there would be a risk that empty housingare subject to this tax.

Loss of credibility

But his rant also targets Michel Fournier, whose position he judges problematic . “I think that the associations of elected officialshave strength because they bring together elected officials from sensitivities different through themes that bring together beyond the political divisions. An association which takes such positions becomes politicized and this causes it to lose its credibilitywith certain elected officials. »

Note that Aymar de Gouvion Saint-Cyr is a member of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), but not of that of rural mayors (AMRF).

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