Tax & Finance

#2010-1658French Tax and Property Value Revision Law 2010

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The law updates how property values are calculated for tax purposes, aiming to better reflect market conditions. It outlines detailed criteria for property evaluation, such as usage and physical characteristics, and sets up committees to supervise the implementation. Building owners must provide declarations about their properties, affecting local government revenues and how taxes are applied.

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Key Changes

  • Revises property value assessments to align with market conditions
  • Establishes new committees for overseeing property evaluations
  • Mandates property declarations from building owners

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Building owners must provide declarations about their properties to local government authorities for tax evaluation purposes

Building owners and property holders
reporting
high

Each department must establish one or more evaluation sectors that group communes or parts of communes with homogeneous rental markets

Departmental tax administrations and local governments
operational
high

Property valuation must account for nature, destination, usage, physical characteristics, situation, and composition of the property

Tax authorities and departmental evaluation commissions
operational
medium

Municipal and intermunicipal tax commissions must transmit their written opinion to the departmental commission within thirty days of being consulted; silence after thirty days constitutes approval

Municipal and intermunicipal tax commissions
operational
high

Departmental commissions for professional property values must establish and publish evaluation sectors, property classifications, applicable tariffs per square meter, and location coefficients

Departmental commissions for professional property values
disclosure

Affected Parties

Property ownersLocal governments

Tags

tax,real estate,property valuation