And what has just happened in ?

Any links?

Steve

 

It is all over the British media!

All media outlets in UK covering the story.

hits British second home owners with 60pc tax surcharge

Thousands more local authorities granted power to apply council tax surcharges

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

There's already the imputed tax on second & subsequent properties here of course.

Not 60% of anything, but it does already exist.

 

There's already the imputed tax on second & subsequent properties here of course.

Not 60% of anything, but it does already exist.

Yes, and it went up for UK residents after Brexit because EU residents pay a lower rate.

Is the change in affecting all non-EU residents with properties in of just the British?

Knowing the British press they will portray it as a directed and exclusve attack on "Brits" even when it might be a change affecting all non-EU owners.

 

Typical DM rubbish.
It is not against the British.
It is not always applied. I understand it is for each Commune to charge and what level of taxes to impose. Here is the official French website about changes in the law.

Décret n° 2023-822 du 25 août 2023 modifiant le décret n° 2013-392 du 10 mai 2013 relatif au champ d'application de la taxe annuelle sur les logements vacants instituée par l'article 232 du code général des impôts - Légi

Décret n° 2023-822 du 25 août 2023 modifiant le décret n° 2013-392 du 10 mai 2013 relatif au champ ...

www.legi.gouv.fr

and is an up dated law dating from 2013

Décret n° 2013-392 du 10 mai 2013 relatif au champ d'application de la taxe annuelle sur les logements vacants instituée par l'article 232 du code général des impôts - Légi

Décret n° 2013-392 du 10 mai 2013 relatif au champ d'application de la taxe annuelle sur les logements vacants ...

www.legi.gouv.fr

Oh BTW Wales has a tax on second homes does it not?

New tax rules for second homes | GOV.WALES

The Welsh Government has announced an increase to the maximum level of council tax s for second homes, as well as new local tax rules for holiday lets.

www.gov.wales

 

The Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill is currently making its way throught the parliamentary process in England, and if ed Councils will be able to charge double the Council Tax on second homes - which is rather more than the 60% French increaase.

 

The Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill is currently making its way throught the parliamentary process in England, and if ed Councils will be able to charge double the Council Tax on second homes - which is rather more than the 60% French increase.

And Cornwall Council has already announced that it will take advantage of the new legislation and impose a new for second home owners from 2025. No doubt other councils in UK holiday areas will do the same. Second Homes - Cornwall Council.

 

IMO should be 4x, on second thoughts make it 10x!

 

We didn't realise how extensive second home ownership was until we returned in late 1978 after 16 years overseas.
We bought a house in Cornwall, and were surprised when we went into the local pub one day, a few weeks after we moved in, when the landlord was surprised we were "still there".
He was equally surprised to realise that it was now our home.
We went to the pub a few more times, but it rapidly became less interesting, as our arrival usually doubled the clientele for the evening, which usually comprised the blacksmith and a naval rating who rented the house next door to us.
Our village was far from the most sparsely occupied in the area, and the majority of residents probably couln't afford the pub.

 

One of the (many) reasons we sold up, left Cornwall and moved to Spain after 2 years there was that we felt we were treated as outsiders. The schooling was also abysmal.

 

Plan to curb second homes could hit house prices, council says

The council says a hit to prices from its plans to limit the number of second homes is "inevitable".

www.bbc.co.uk

Want their cake and to eat it.

Want more affordable housing, but don't want their homes to lose value.

 

Successive govenrments have really dug themselves a deep, deep, hole over this