Airbnb made a great catch. The San Francisco company announced, Monday, November 20, the recruitment, as director of legal affairs, of Ron Klain, long-time loyal and former right-hand man of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, at the White House . A significant reinforcement in the difficult period the group is going through.
After allowing furnished tourist accommodation to prosper, cities and governments all over the world are now seeking to limit the activity of platforms like Airbnb, accused of contributing to the housing shortage and causing rents and prices to soar. real estate prices.
At the beginning of September, New York banned owners from renting furnished accommodation for a period of less than thirty days, except under very strict conditions. In October, the Italian city of Florence decided to prohibit any new short-term rentals in its historic center, while at the same time offering tax relief to owners who agree to return to traditional rentals.
The Canadian government, for its part, announced on Tuesday, November 21, a series of measures to combat the housing crisis. Among them is the limitation of tax deductions on income generated by the rental of furnished tourist accommodation on Airbnb.
In France, one of the American giant’s main markets, a transpartisan bill is arriving at the National Assembly at the end of November, to significantly tighten the rules targeting the platforms. Supported by deputies Annaïg Le Meur (Renaissance, Finistère) and Inaki Echaniz (Socialist Party, Pyrénées-Atlantiques), it is the result of long-term work to rally the support of the government. He procrastinated for a long time before the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, affirmed, on November 16, the need to “give communities new tools to regulate furnished tourist accommodation” and lends its support to the text, during a trip to Dunkirk (North) devoted to the housing crisis.
This bill, intended “remedy rental market imbalances in tight areas”, will therefore be examined with favorable omens, Tuesday, November 28, by the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly. Initially tabled in April, the text arrives in Parliament “re-groomed” and strengthened, through amendments “consensual”underlines Inaki Echaniz.
“A big tax injustice”
First of all, it is a question of reorganizing the taxation of furnished accommodation with, in sight, the tax loophole enjoyed by owners of Airbnb-type accommodation. Renters of classified tourist accommodation benefit from a flat-rate reduction of 71% on the rents received, compared to 50% for classic furnished accommodation, and only 30% for empty classic rentals. “The citizen has the feeling of a big tax injustice, and there is a wait”observes Annaïg Le Meur.
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