• During discussions on its budget orientation report, the metropolis of Nice intends to increase its tax rate for the removal of household waste and collect that for the management of aquatic environments and flood prevention from 2024.
  • Eric Ciotti calls Christian Estrosi, in a letter on Wednesday, to renounce to take "a new step in the unbearable tax pressure that weighs on our fellow citizens".
  • "Those who are indignant today yesterday opposed the return of purchasing power to households with the total abolition of the housing tax and the audiovisual fee. We must be consistent and stop demagogy, "retorts the metropolis.

These decisions will be submitted to the vote of the councillors of the Nice Côte d'Azur metropolis this Thursday. And they have already been talked about. Eric Ciotti calling on Christian Estrosi, in a letter on Wednesday, to give up taking "a new step in the unbearable tax pressure that weighs on our fellow citizens". During discussions on its budget orientation report, the community intends to increase its household waste collection tax rate (TEOM, from 8.46% to 10.46%) and collect that for the management of aquatic environments and flood prevention from 2024.

If the second, called Gemapi, is only 8 euros per inhabitant - where it reaches between 10 and 20 euros in other intercommunalities of the department that have already applied it "often for a long time", according to the metropolis - the first could increase the bill by several hundred euros for some administered.

"The context has changed significantly"

The community responds through the voice of Gérard Steppel, mayor of a small town in the hinterland of Nice and vice-president of the finance commission of the metropolis. It recalls that the rate of the TEOM had "largely decreased thanks to three successive decreases in 2018, 2019 and 2020" and that it will remain "still lower than that of 10.90% in force until 2017". And to justify this arbitration by "the context" which "has changed sharply" with "unprecedented inflation for forty years".


In January, the mayor of Nice had to announce the postponement of several projects, the health of metropolitan municipal finances being burdened, according to him, by "the pandemic", "the tragedy of storm Alex" and "new expenses" related to the "inflationary and energy crisis". He also acknowledged: "we are bordering on" the debt ceiling. Enough to give grain to grind to his opponents, his former ally Eric Ciotti in the lead.

And the deputy, president of LR, has put a layer in the light of these new announcements. "While you are caught by the throat by the Leviathan that you yourself gave birth, you are forced to increase, again, the taxes of the inhabitants of the metropolis," he wrote to Christian Estrosi, "asking him to reverse this decision".

"Those who are indignant today yesterday opposed the return of purchasing power to households with the total abolition of the housing tax and the audiovisual fee. We must be consistent and stop demagoguery, retorts the metropolis. The aim of this debate on budgetary guidelines is to support the economy and employment. We are maintaining our investments in services to the public, with no increase in property taxes. »

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