New tax increase in sight in Montreuil. Two years after the first increase in the mandate, elected officials voted Wednesday evening in the municipal council to increase the property tax by 5%. A “necessary” decision justified Patrice Bessac (PCF), in a “difficult context”. “Since 2021, inflation has been stifling our financial capacities: alone, it is responsible for around 90% of the increase in our operating expenses over the past three years,” detailed the mayor of Montreuil.
The elected official also mentioned “revenues which are not increasing as quickly”. “As a result of the real estate crisis, the fall in real estate sales is eroding our transfer taxes” with a loss of more than two million euros this year, he underlined.
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The initial budget was adopted unanimously minus two votes against, those of opposition elected officials Choukri Yonis (DVG) and Pierre Serne (EELV). During the session, the first denounced “an easy way out” while the second pretended to wonder: “What more or better will Montreuillois have compared to last year? It's just to make ends meet without any improvement. » Pierre Serne criticized in passing “the absence of major investment in the decarbonization of the city or in social policy”.
Among future expenses, around 15 million euros will be dedicated to the maintenance of municipal heritage and 50 million euros will be invested in the creation of schools and the renovation of school buildings, the deputy mayor also detailed. finance Philippe Lamarche (PCF).