The increase in the property tax voted by the municipal council of Marseille in 2022 could be canceled by the administrative justice, the public rapporteur having denounced Wednesday the insufficiency of the information given to the elected officials before the vote of the deliberation.
The Marseille administrative court examined two appeals, one filed by Marseille owners, the other by an opposition elected representative asking for the cancellation of the deliberation of April 8, 2022, during which the left-wing municipal majority voted an increase of some 14% in the municipal share of the 2022 Marseille property tax.
The applicants consider in particular that, prior to the vote, the elected officials did not have sufficient information on the future budgetary orientations of the municipality, in particular concerning the increase in the property tax, to enable them to take a clear decision.
A reason retained on Wednesday by the public rapporteur, who estimated at the hearing that in the report provided to elected officials as part of the budget orientation debate, nothing made it possible to detect an increase in the property tax decided by the municipality.
Moreover, if the rates envisaged for the 2022 property tax have indeed been communicated to the elected officials, this information alone did not allow (them) to measure the implications of their decision, however relating to a sensitive subject, noted the public rapporteur, asking the annulment of this vote.
Court deliberation around April 5
The object of the appeal is to highlight the lies and manipulations of the municipal majority, explained to AFP Pierre Robin, the LR municipal councilor behind one of the appeals, denouncing a vote on the sly.
We were made to pay on illegal bases, reacted for his part Jacques Gobert, lawyer for nearly 240 Marseille owners, including the Chamber of Owners and Co-owners of Bouches-du-Rhne and Var.
The people I represent are generally modest and because of this absolutely considerable and historic increase, some, very close to the poverty line, could find themselves in precariousness, he pleaded.
We are dealing with a use of administrative law for political purposes, castigated the city’s lawyer, Me Jorge Mendes, by asking the court in advance to modulate the effects of its judgment in the event of cancellation of the property tax. : We ask to have a little time to regularize.
The court’s deliberation should be delivered around April 5 at the earliest.
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