The local government reform project is not the only subject on which departmental elected officials, who open their Convention in Clermont-Ferrand, will concern this morning Brice Hortefeux, Minister of the Interior. "What is the most serious, currently, it is the financial situation of the councils and the evolution of their taxation" to alarm t - on the Assembly of the departments of France (ADF). The accounts of these communities would be difficult to hold that many of their executives fear of not being able to submit a budget in balance at the end of the year.
Since the fall of 2008, the departments suffer a terrible effect of scissors. On the one hand, their tax revenues, which are very largely dependent on the real estate market, today in full depression, are endlessly of plummeting. On the other, their social spending soars, must heal the wounds of the crisis, as dealing with the rise in charge of new skills. (EUR 550 million in 2008) expenses related to the provision of compensation for disability (PCH) explode ( 65 between the first semester 2008 and 2009). And the burden of the allocation personalized autonomy (APA) is increasing again ( 5.67 in 2008). Even the most deliberately pessimistic estimates should be revised downwards. At ADF, there are more negative amending budget decisions. Some departmental Executive tightening the conditions for payment of subsidies for investment in the Commons. Claudy Lebreton, the ADF President (PS), sounded the tocsin and threat to call the General advice to suspend their co-financing on all sites which the State is the master of work.
In road, PDMI (programs of modernization of routes) are in the sights. The departmental co-financing for high-speed lines and the policy of the city, via the USOC (urban social cohesion contracts), could be of bad wind of budgetary rigour. In a full area of financial turbulence, General Councils fear that the removal of business tax (TP) as of 2010 leads to new and strong disturbances. The scenario of replacement of this economic tax concocted by Bercy "door to the tax autonomy of departments", storm t - on to the ADF.
A part of the CSG
These, retaining more than the tax on built land, would lose 70 of revenue from their current direct taxation (18,78 billion including TP 8,43 billion). They must share with the regions the assessment further (CC), a component of the reassessment economic territorial (this), sitting on the added value, but they will not be able to vary the amount. In fine, their power of rates apply on 12 of all revenues, compared to 35 today.
This scheme goes badly in the Senate, where the power of influence of the departments, already largely hostile to the reform project territorial communities, is important. "The presentation to date shows that the assignment of taxes to categories of communities shows too rigid for some and too changing to other revenue," warned Gérard Longuet, President of the UMP in the upper chamber group.
"We want solidarity expenses, over which we have no margin for action, to be offset to the nearest euro", says - on to the ADF. The departments including want a share of the CSG. This claim, almost as old as the introduction of the tax revenues, could be enriched with more new proposals on the content of which the Congress of the ADF must lift the suspense.
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