The Grenoble city council votes on Monday on the city’s 2023 budget with in particular a controversial increase in the property tax, a necessary contribution, according to the ecological mayor Eric Piolle.
The Grenoble city council votes on Monday on the city’s 2023 budget with in particular a controversial increase in the property tax, a necessary contribution, according to the ecological mayor Eric Piolle. This 25% increase in the municipal share, which will be added to a 7% increase in the bases decided nationally, should make it possible to raise around 44 million euros. The municipal opposition, opposed to this measure, plans to demonstrate on Monday on the sidelines of the council.
According to the municipality, half of the sums thus raised will be used to meet inflation, the cost of energy, or the increase in the index point of agents, while the other half will be paid into an investment plan. existing dedicated to transitions, the strengthening of public service and the establishment of a social and climate shield.
This shield allows us to lower the prices of school canteens, to go faster on support for mobility – this is crucial with the arrival of the ZFE (low-mission zone, editor’s note) – but also for health, popular education and young people, it is a deliberate choice, explained ric Piolle, questioned Monday by France Bleu Isre.
I hear the concern of some owners, we are all faced with food price inflation – 15% in one year – or energy prices. We are aware that it is a contribution that we are asking for, he underlined.
The city of Grenoble had not increased its tax rate on built land since 2009, according to the city’s website.
In 2021, this rate was 54.72%, the fourth highest in France behind Angers, Amiens and Poitiers, according to data from the UNPI observatory of property taxes.
The city council should also decide on Monday on the sale for 37 million euros of the city’s shares in the social landlord Grenoble Habitat, a subsidiary of the Caisse des depots et consignations (CDC). Opponents of this privatization project have also planned to gather on Monday afternoon on the sidelines of the municipal council.