METZ METROPOLE WILL INCREASE TAXES IN 2016

Red alert for finance Metz Métropole. 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 Métropole is facing a strong debt to lower state grants (€ 3.5 million / 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 doubling in 2011, the reduction in 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 Métropole. 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 (Republicans) and Marly 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 Métropole 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 stopped 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 ...) amounted to EUR 6 million. "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 Métropole (Centre Pompidou, transmission system Mettis ...), Mr. Horry also discusses future essential projects: the roof renovation of the Opera Theatre or land board Frescaty (ex-BA 128) which "continues to welcome companies."

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