The majority of the socialist mayor Benoît Payan validated a 14% increase in taxes to “ensure an action budget”.
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The election promise has held less than two years. At the end of a long debate, more dwrked, the Marseille City Council voted on Friday, April 8, a 5.47% increase in the municipal share of the property tax. A first since the accession to power in June 2020 of the majority of the left, ecologist and citizen of the Spring Marseillais who, before his election, insured in his electoral program that she would not touch this tax. This increase, which causes a global increase of nearly 14% of the property tax, must allow the municipality to complete a total budget 2022 of € 1.835 billion, of which 270 million investment. It concerns more than 40% of Marseille homes, which, according to INSEE, have housing. And should bring back nearly fifty million euros into the coffers of the city.
After scrapping into the hemicycle and asked the socialist mayor Benoît Payan to limit this increase by the municipal share of 2%, “at the moment when the Marseillais suffer from a social crisis”, the group the Republicans (LR) imposed a nominative public vote. An effortless political shot, since none of the 55 elected majority affiliated has failed to appeal.
In the latter municipal council before the presidential and legislative elections – the next will take place on June 24 – Benoît Payan and his deputies assumed the rupture of their electoral promise and attempted to justify it by essential circumstances. “Nobody increases the caught taxes of heart,” pleaded the Mayor of Marseille.
“False motivations”
In charge of the budget, Joël Canicave (Socialist Party) recalled the weight of an imposing debt – 1.45 billion euros – inherited from the previous Mayor, Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR). Although partially renegotiated by the Spring Marseillais, it imposes in 2022 the refund of 190 million euros. The revaluation of the status officials’ salaries, decided by the State, and the announced thaw of the point of index, two measures greeted by the Spring Marseille, impact the municipal salary mass of 20 million euros annuals.
Finally, the elected representative predicts an explosion of the invoice of the fluids and energies, due to the war in Ukraine, of 12 million euros and the disappearance, by 2023, of the intercommunal equalization fund, balance of 14 million euros per year that will no longer be paid in Marseille because of overall enrichment of its metropolis. “A particularly unjust measure”, according to Benoît Payan, also concerned with the impact on its accounts of the effects of the 3DS law, referring to the communes certain hitherto metropolitan skills.
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