Gabriel Attal, the Minister of Public Accounts, announced the creation of a “fire cell” which will be responsible for creating a “tax shock absorber” to “limit the economic and financial consequences” of fires on the victims.
Le Monde with AFP
The government wants to “restore a little oxygen to all those who have suffered fires directly”. A “fire cell” will be set up within a week in the Directorate of Public Finance, announced the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, in an interview with Dauphiné Libéré , Monday August 15.
In connection with URSSAF, she will be responsible for setting up “a kind of tax shock absorber” to “limit the economic and financial consequences that the French concerned will be undergoing” fires which ravage several French territories Since the start of the summer. Measures will be provided for individuals, but also for companies and communities.
For individuals who have seen their goods in the durably affected, Gabriel Attal evokes, already, “mainly three measures”: an exceptional period of levy of income tax, a suspension of local taxes (property tax and housing tax) concerning the affected housing and a potential revision of the drop in rental values, “depending on the depreciation of goods”.
Side businesses, the Minister has promised “postponement of payment of tax deadlines” and an accelerated refund of CICE or CICE credits, “to give a boost to their cash”.
Means for civil security
The many fires linked to the scorching episodes that has gone through France since June have drawn this year a sad record: that of the largest area of hectares burned, at this stage of the year, since the start of the data Satellitaries in 2006, according to the European Information System on Forest Fires (Effis). The latter specifies, however, that the country experienced very worse years in the 1970s, before European standardized data.
Once the fires have been turned off, President Emmanuel Macron will bring together all the players in the departments concerned, in order to reflect on the “model for fire prevention and fight” in France, announced the Elysée on Sunday.
“We will have to learn from what happened and we will change our means of action and anticipation,” added Mr. Attal on Monday, promising “new measures in summer next “. “In addition, we will continue to increase the means dedicated to the fight against fires in the next budget,” he promised, “with additional credits for civil security”.