The municipality had its back to the wall. While the increase in property tax had been postponed for years in Salies-du-Salat, in Haute-Garonne, elected officials were unable to avoid it this time, reports La Dépêche. Indeed, faced with a deteriorating financial situation, the municipal council was finally forced to vote, in April, for an initial increase of 18%. According to the opposition, however, this decision was taken too late and still appears insufficient.
If this increase was triggered, it is also because the prefect had seized the regional audit office to examine the municipality’s budgets. The institution had then pointed out an “unbalanced initial budget adopted” and “the lack of concordance between the administrative accounts and the management accounts”. Indeed, according to the CRC, certain loss-making activities, in particular those relating to thermal baths, are financed by additional budgets and suffer from significant “structural imbalances”.
Despite this observation, the town’s mayor, Jean-Pierre Duprat, wants to continue financing the spa, which needs at least 1,000 spa guests to break even, while waiting to find a buyer. “If we close it, no one will take it over,” he told the newspaper. The regional audit office has therefore given the elected officials of Salies-du-Salat a month to improve the situation, in particular by increasing local taxes. In July, the elected officials therefore revised the increase in property tax (…)
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