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the Association of Actors accommodation and tourism professionals (AhTop), created in July 2015, which claims 30,000 adherents, especially among the hotel (eg the Best Western chain, but not the AccorHotels group) and travel agents, decided to fight the competition, it unfairly judge of Internet platforms renting apartments to tourists. She has recorded 127, which, of course, specialized Airbnb and HomeAway, but now also as generalists Leboncoin, SeLoger, Booking.com …
This Thursday, June 23, AhTop shade several assets in the part it plays tight against them. The first card is legal: 60 organizations, especially trade unions such as the National Federation of Real Estate (FNAIM), the Union of real estate unions (UNIS) and the National Union of Professional Realty (SNPI) had on 13 November 2015, filed a complaint in this matter. They blame these sites various offenses, including the Hoguet law on the profession of real estate agent and the tourism code, but have not made them public action, to allow prosecutors investigate discreetly.
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“Seven months later, the first elements of the investigation show significant deviations says Jean-Bernard Falco, president of AhTop. In Paris, for example, the proposed 41,000 addresses – about 75 000 beds, almost as much as hotel rooms – on the Airbnb website are at 88%, entire homes, and 67% do not comply Paris regulation. “
multi-owner referred
Are referred to multi-owner, originally a third of ads in France, for example one whose nickname is “Fabien” which launches housing 257 and thus acts as a real professional realtor. There are also advertisers who claim to rent their principal residence, whereas it is not, or that easily exceed one hundred and twenty days annual rental authorized by law for access to housing and a renovated town planning ( ALUR Act of 24 March 2014)
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“A Paris the 41,000 available addresses on the Airbnb website are at 88%, entire homes, and 67% do not comply with the Paris regulation “
the Paris prosecutor’s office and the National Service surveys (SNE), under the Ministry of Finance, have, for their investigations, supported on the website Inside Airbnb, opened by American academics who had “sucked” Corporate data banks in cities across the world, including Paris, and had made public and open access.
“We are not at all against the reception of tourists in private apartments and have same need to increase the accommodation capacity on Paris and France, and increase, by 2030, 85 to 130 million visitors, but it must be regulated “, asks Mr. Falco.
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tax Editing
the unions realtors AhTop allies to deny, them, that this activity is carried without any obligations that are theirs: management card, financial security, liability insurance … They also found that 25% of residential leases are thus “hôtellisés” that is to say converted into tourist homes, which dries the conventional rental market. The Observatory rents in the Paris area (OLAP) had already identified 20 000 private rental units disappeared between 2011 and 2014.
Another angle of AhTop is taxation in the first place the platforms. If HomeAway pays taxes on its business in France, this is not the case of France Airbnb, which are hiring 25 employees and despite its commissions estimated at over EUR 150 million (15% of billion euros it collects on behalf of renters), shall pay only 89,000 euros in taxes. The tax structure is identified: a subsidiary in London and sub-subsidiaries in Ireland and the Netherlands allow to relocate the profits made in France. AhTop denounces this optimization – albeit legal – like “a competitive inequity more» . As for income renters, who are only 15% to declare, AhTop proposes that the platforms are required to transmit data to the tax authorities
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Four supported amendments
the battle also plays at the legislative level with the adoption of the law on digital which, after a first reading in the Assembly and Senate, arrived in joint committee Wednesday, June 29 Hoteliers support four amendments: the requirement to register as a renter to his town hall in agglomerations with over 200 000 inhabitants which establish for such promises to do Strasbourg; Obligatory quality control of the owner, proprietor or lessee authorized by the lessor; transmission of data on income earned in taxes; Ad blocking leasing companies that exceeded legal hundred twenty days.
“San Francisco, home to Airbnb, has adopted such registration together with a hotel tax of 14% ; New York and Barcelona require a minimum rental period (respectively twenty-nine and fifteen days) to limit short-term stays; Madrid and Berlin flatly prohibit the rental of an entire housing … Our proposals are therefore comparatively moderate “, welcomed Mr. Falco.
Finally, AhTop wants to combine the public opinion, necessary to support parliamentary work and commissioned a survey (conducted by Harris Interactive among 997 people, from 24 to 26 May), which revealed that 72% of respondents are favorable or very favorable for registration hall Internet, 69% approve of the automatic reporting of income to the tax administration and 66% blocking ads beyond one hundred twenty days allowed – people over 50 years and the Socialist supporters are even more convinced.
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