Friday, January 30, 2015

APL, home ownership, social housing, VAT: tracks … – Les Echos

APL, home ownership, social housing, VAT: tracks … – Les Echos

EXCLUSIVE – The inspection report made a series of concrete proposals

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Personal Aids

The strongest recommendation is to tighten the allocation of housing assistance criteria ( APL), making them ineligible for housing above a certain level of rent and land and households with a certain level of wealth. This is the British model. It aims to ensure that aid goes to households already have a housing (second home, rental housing …).

Another proposal shock, ending the possibility of connecting to tax household of students receiving housing assistance. Among the reasons, the fact that students receive income from their parents who are not taken into account in the calculation of the aid. If that average income was 850 euros in 2010, it could reach 2,334 euros for the more affluent students. This alone would release 400 million euros in savings in the second year. It had been envisaged by the Fillon government. Last major reform proposal: APL modulate based on the “affordability ratio” (the weight of the housing / rent in the household budget)

Aid to. private donors

The current regime of investment in new rental housing (Pinel) provides for a tax reduction of 18%: the report proposes to reduce it to 13% in return, increase the gross rental yield by raising the rent ceiling allowed (today, it must be less than 20% market rent). The advantage of this system would be reformed especially true in the most tense areas, practicing the highest market rents. The report estimates that any tax reduction also save the passage to 180 million per year in stride.



rental of furnished Plan

Various technical measures aimed at reducing the current tax benefit of the status of non-professional furnished rental company, which is currently a rental investment modes having the most success, including residences service. This is in parallel the microfoncier the plan.



Social housing

A tightening is recommended, including the simple deletion of ‘aid to stone “(direct state subsidies to housing agencies, serving their own funds). They somehow already been greatly reduced for five years.



Fight against vacancy

To prevent housing is vacant, it is to allow individuals donors rent with leases of less than three years, or to be able to take over the lease being accommodation, subject to strict conditions including a support for moving expenses tenant and a period of reasonable notice. “These measures go against the grain of the provisions adopted in the context of the Alur law” , says the report. It also recommends to limit rent regulation in Paris and possibly in some of the neighboring towns (not all tense areas). The rent control would be applied for two years after deployment observatories rents to better understand the impact of the measure.



Homeownership

In addition to the elimination of the state premium for new home savings plans (PEL) and APL Accession (excluding accident of life), it is recommended that end the exemption from property tax for two years for new housing. This would yield 300 million to local communities. But the state would reduce all its endowment. Finally, it is proposed a refocusing of the interest-free loan. The question does not arise: it was refocused last year

Energy Retrofit

The report goes. against the current measures taken since last year to support energy renovation work. He advocates deleting the premium for work and bring the VAT on the work of 5.5% to 10%.

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