PLF 2025: Amif amendments

The association of mayors of Ile-de-France (Amif) would like to see the finance bill for 2025 amended on several points in order to avoid calling into question a series of strategic projects carried out by the municipalities.

For the Association of Mayors of Ile-de-France, numerous projects carried out by municipalities, making it possible to reduce social divides, adapt territories to climate change and preserve the quality of local public services are likely to be called into question by the initial text of the finance bill (PLF) for 2025.

This is the reason why the association chaired by Stéphane Beaudet makes 7 amendments to the PLF which is beginning its first reading in the Senate:

• An amendment relating to the indexation of the DGF (overall operating allocation) to inflation (up to 1.8%)
• An amendment to delete article 30 providing for the reduction of the rate of FCTVA (Value Added Tax Compensation Fund) and the exclusion of funds from maintenance expenditure on public buildings, roads, paid networks and Cloud solution services
• An amendment to delete article 31 providing for the renewal for 2025 of the VAT amounts paid in 2024 to communities, thus freezing for 2025 the portions of VAT allocated to them
• An amendment to delete article 64 providing for the establishment of a reserve fund for local finances for communities with more than 40 million euros in real operating expenses up to 2% of their revenue (scope whole France)
• An amendment proposing to maintain support for the policy of educational success and to fight against the phenomenon of “orphan schools” by perpetuating 54,000,000 euros in the budget relating to public primary school education in order to maintain 1,200 teaching positions teachers and assign them to the division of large section, CP and CE1 classes in the 471 orphan schools identified in the “Territories and successes” report.
• An amendment proposing to restore the level of the Ecological Transition Acceleration Fund in the territories known as the “Green Fund” to the 2024 level, i.e. 2.5 billion euros for the entire country.
• An amendment relating to the establishment of aid to mayor builders.

“We are counting on the support of parliamentarians to relay the concerns of mayors at the national level during the budget review,” indicates Stéphane Beaudet. More generally, Amif calls on the government to reverse the planned budget cuts and to guarantee the communities' own resources. Taking these priorities into account is essential as the government plans to subject local authorities to drastic and short-term budget cuts to the tune of 6.5 billion euros.