Arbitration on the quantum is still in progress

It is the season of the prognostications of the Paris City Hall. As for taxes, the Mayor of the capital increase persists and signs. After you have increased the rate of 9 in 2009 and created a departmental tax 3 - an increase of 28 on the map of taxes received by the Parisiens in September-, Bertrand Delanoë confirms, as it announced during the municipal campaign, a further increase in 2010, the last of the parliamentary term. Arbitration on the quantum is still in progress.

Before the debate on the budgetary guidelines of next Monday, the finance Deputy Bernard Gaudillère (PS) yesterday assured that increase would be "significantly less strong than that of 2009 and less than 10 ".Indeed, this year, no tax will be created, unlike the past with the departmental property tax year. Despite these increases, Bernard Gaudillère argues that the tax burden is always lower in Paris than in the majority of large French cities. A speech that leap to the right. "Life is much more expensive in the capital and 78 of Parisians households live on less than 2.880 euros per month." "The increase is substantial for families, the Mayor is not adapted to the crisis," said economist Christian Saint-Etienne, Advisor of Paris to the Centre group and independent. A UMP, Jean-François Legaret, Chairman of the Committee on finance to the Council of Paris, provides for an increase in rates in 2010 a little more than 9. "9.54 In 2009, slightly more than 9 in 2010, the updating of the databases and inflation, it will be on average 25 increase in two years, an absolute record", it carries the Mayor of the 1st District.

"It is not far from a tax revolt of the Parisians, warns the Mayor UMP 15th arrondissement Philippe Goujon. With the crisis, it is a decision against the current, anti-économique. "To the operating budget of the city, and pointing to"an increase in the wage by 35 since 2001"the UMP request the publication of the most important 10 wages of the city. "An attack completely demagogic and under debate", replies were in the entourage of the Mayor.

Effort on the investment

Despite these criticisms and a difficult context - transfer rights should drop to 600 million euros, against 620 in 2009 and 940 in 2007-, Bertrand Delanoë guard in 2010 a sustained effort on the investment, at 1.7 billion euros on a budget of more than 7 billion euros, and not retreat on projects disparaged the stage Jean - Bouin (about EUR 200 million) or of halls (EUR 760 million). It reaffirms its priorities of social housing in childhood, through solidarity and innovation. Policy defended by the PC and the Greens, although that very offensive since the European offer a blend of the increase of taxes.

-Side operation, Bertrand Delanoë maintains jobs freeze and continuing the reform of the Paris administration. In the heart of the budget debates are of redeployment of posts, for example of cleanliness to other services. A difficult budget, arbitration tense: the exact increase in taxes will be decided in November.