This is a bill eagerly awaited by local elected officials and associations fighting against the housing crisis: the deputies examine on Wednesday evening a text aimed at regulating furnished tourist accommodation, in particular by attacking their tax loophole, without certainty that the debates can go as far as a vote.
The deputies approved last week in committee this bill initiated by Annag Le Meur (Renaissance) and Iaki Echaniz (PS), which was first put on the agenda in the spring before being postponed sine die. LR and RN elected officials have criticized measures unfavorable to small ownersand the planned reduction in tax relief has divided the presidential camp.
The committee adopted, against the government’s advice, an amendment lowering the rate of reduction on income from tourist furniture to 30% (compared to 71% for classy furniture rental and 50% for non-class furniture rental today). An exception would be made in very sparsely populated rural areas where an additional rate of 41% (71% in total) could be applied.
Energy performance diagnosis obligations for tourist furniture?
Annag Le Meur described in his constituency of Finistre entire villages (which) are emptying under the weight of tourist furniture and being transformed into holiday villages. Iaki Echaniz, elected official of the Pyrnes-Atlantiques, relayed the cry of alarm from local elected officials, faced with a lack of housing and the devitalization of city centers. Their text intends to rebalance the taxation of rentals of tourist furniture, so that it is not to the detriment of an annual rental offer, he explained.
The tax advantage had already been the subject of a standoff during the examination of the 2024 draft budget, with the executive’s promise to reduce the deduction in extended areas from 71% to 50%. The text, examined at first reading, also applies energy performance diagnosis obligations to tourist furniture.
Socialist, environmentalist and Liot (independent) amendments open the possibility for municipalities to reduce from 120 days to 90 days per year the maximum period during which a main residence can be rented as tourist accommodation. On Monday, around thirty elected officials from large cities that are members of the Urban France association called for real regulation of Airbnb-type tourist accommodation and more regulatory powers in the hands of municipalities.
But the Assembly could not go as far as voting on Wednesday, its work theoretically having to end at midnight. We will do our utmost to ensure that this happens, Guillaume Kasbarian, president of the Economic Affairs Commission, declared to AFP.
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