The Mayor of Terville, in Moselle, wants to set up a voluntary tax to finance the holders of innovation projects in his town. Beyond the financial benefits, this new formula is to rethink participatory democracy at the local level.
This is a measure for the least original. In the small town of Terville (Moselle), some thirty kilometers from Metz, the mayor has redesigned partly local taxation at the budget debate. Elected head of the city for fifteen years, Patrick Luxembourger, who belongs to no political party but which is positioned on the right, wishes to establish a “voluntary tax” to finance innovative projects of its common, reports the ‘Est Républicain .
In detail, this is a new tax formula that offers taxpayers to pay, on a voluntary basis, 10% of local taxes in addition: “It allows me to bring solutions to a number of innovative projects, “says the Le Figaro Patrick Luxembouger. Projects that want to “new services to the population, they are learning in the direction of the elders, or associations, in a joint innovating all the time,” explains the mayor. The taxpayer, if desired, may in finance from one to three. In addition, “citizens will be able to build something that combines a narrower way to projects, taking part in decisions, execution thereof and control of expenditure. The aim is also to ensure that people realize that this can be a source of personal satisfaction leisure, “said Patrick Luxembourger
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” the tax is not a correction of the company’s condition “
If the mayor recognizes a” deliberately provocative formula, “” in the good way, “he says, he wants above all generate debate by posing the problem of the relation to tax. “The tax is not to change the world and satisfy human passions. This is not a correction of the company’s condition. ” Above all, the chosen of Terville wants rethink citizen participation. The approach follows a logic of “direct and participatory democracy” with the objective to “renew the debate in the community”.
Like many local officials, Patrick Luxembourger regrets lower provisions granted by State the Commons: “I question the method we glue the state of stress in an already restrictive environment. It is a small town for which lower provisions represents 540,000 euros in a full year. ” Compared to a decline of local taxes 5% last year, he has resolved to increase 7% this year. A tax consequences that should stop within three to four years, at which it undertakes to announce a further decline to “not to break the dynamics of the common compensating the state’s inability to reform”.
In these circumstances, the voluntary tax could alleviate some of the difficulties with budgetary restrictions. The device should be launched by the end of the year. And if Patrick Luxembourger does not seem to doubt the generosity of its people, they will not have the option to pay 10% additional tax, less, more …
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