Property tax notices have been falling since Wednesday in electronic version, putting Paris or Grenoble in the spotlight for the spectacular increase in their rates. In Toulouse, no tax shock of this ilk. About 58% of the inhabitants are tenants and no longer have to pay housing tax. And for the others, the owners, in accordance with the “campaign promise” of Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc, the property tax does not increase. At least not because of the town hall or the metropolis. It is because of inflation, again, and the “flat-rate revaluation of the bases of 7%” that it entails in all the communes of France, that the pain is more salty.
But the owners of the Pink City, and 2,339 other municipalities in Occitania or New Aquitaine (the list of which is available online), will also be able to discover for the first time on their opinion a bonus tax: the special equipment tax (TSE) created to finance part of the Great South-West rail project (GPSO). Huge works estimated at 14 billion, including 10.3 billion for the Bordeaux/Toulouse high-speed line (LGV).
Four euros more for a T2 owner in Toulouse
The “winning” municipalities, spread over 14 departments, are those located 60 minutes from a future TGV station. The new tax, which is not levied per inhabitant but per taxpayer, concerns owners subject to property taxes on built and unbuilt properties, but also to housing tax on second homes.
So how much is it? To find out, you have to look in the opinion. A taxpayer from Toulouse, owner of a T2 that he rents out, did it for us. He noted that the “TGV tax” did not lead to the addition of a specific line in the statement. It appears under “special taxes”, therefore merged in the case of Toulouse with another contribution, that which must finance the local public land establishment (EPFL). But looking at it, next to the total amount, “written in small” appears the mention “the special taxes include the special GPSO equipment tax for 4 euros”.
This tax novelty should make it possible to collect 29.5 million per year, for a period that is not really known. “The GPSO financing plan stretches at least over two generations”, explains Sacha Briand, the vice-president of Toulouse Métropole in charge of finance. However, the elected judge considers the new tax “indispensable”. “Beyond the service that the LGV will provide to Toulouse residents, he says, and even if it represents a very small additional charge for the owners, we have clearly seen in Bordeaux the effect that it can have on the value of housing”.