INCREASING TAXES FOR 2016? WHAT MORE!

Metz is a town located in the northeast of France, in the Moselle department in Lorraine. Head of department, the administrative region Alsace-Lorraine-Champagne-Ardenne. Since 1^st of January 2016.

Area: 277 km²
Weather: 1 ° C, wind N at 11 km per hour, 76% humidity
Population: 120,738 in 2010.

The urban community of Metz, 44 municipalities will be forced to increase taxes for households in 2016. Faced with a large debt, and a decline in state grants and the construction of its convention center, the chipboard is in the red.

Red alert for finance Metz. Local taxes agglomeration to households (residence tax and property tax) will increase in 2016. The rate of increase has not yet been decided before an expected vote Thursday in the Finance Committee.

Metz is facing a strong debt to lower state grants of 3.5 million euros per year and, the construction of the convention center.

In recent years, the urban area has increased the tax increases. First in 2009 with the creation of a tax on households (property tax and residence tax), its doubled in 2011, the decrease in the general allowance in 2014 and increased 11% in 2015 to removing tax garbage.

Raising taxes is not the taste of the alderman of Metz and community Emmanuel Lebeau (DVD) "As I warned for over 5 years, the wall of debt left by the Mettis is there, and, the chronic deficit Annex transportation budget! Indeed, debt has skyrocketed Metz. The amount of aggregate debt rose in 2009 from 13.5 million to over 200 million in 2015. The debt was multiplied by 15 in 6 years "is he unworthy, calling abandon the project of building a convention center whose budget exceeds 60 million.

Thierry Hory, Mayor and Marely president of the Finance Committee of Greater Metz, this tax increase is "inevitable." "Contrary to what some would have us believe, this tax increase is not related to the construction of the convention center. The annual budget of Metz is 200 million. The convention center cost 60 million euros while the share of funding for chipboard is 10 million. The convention center is at the margin "says Horry. »Besides that whether or not the convention center, even when taxes increase," he says.

"We have no choice," said Thierry Horry
Ensuring that "arbitration is still ongoing," Thierry Horry hopes that "the percentage of the tax increase will be single-digit" below 10%. In September 2015, the figure of 22% had been officially advanced. "We must understand that difficult choices must be written down recorded. Either we do not increase taxes but is stopping to assist the University which is not within our area of expertise, we stop funding the Opera Theatre, or we opted for a tax increase allowing us to move forward «says Horry.

In 2014 and 2015, the savings (staff, operation, event, communication etc.; amounted to 6 million euros. "But this is not enough," laments Thierry Horry, ensuring that lower state grants impact brutally agglomeration. "Nicolas Sarkozy had frozen endowments, Mr. Holland has decided to lower the" mayor accuses Republicans. In addition to the latest investments that plague debt Metz (Centre Pompidou, transmission system Mettis, etc.; Mr. Horry also discusses future essential projects: the renovation of the roof of the Opera Theatre or land board Frescaty (former BA 128) which "continues to welcome companies."

For Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé (UDI), "the wrong choices and structural deficits Metz, do not have to be suffer by the families of the Messina city. Do politics differently, it starts with this: assume your choices and stop punctured ever more taxpayers to fund future projects and excessive whose relevance remains to this day to demonstrate "deplores the councilor of Metz.

Pay, pay, pay for their fuck ups!