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0 pointsthrowaway1105q2y ago0 comments

I am not French but I live a country or two over. Here it's mostly people who own 1-5 apartments in the city they live in, they definitely pay taxes there. And short term rentals are definitely not as simple as "profiting from land value".

Anyways I don't have an opinion about this, just wanted to answer why would people protest - because it's not some faceless corporation but them directly you're taxing.

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Rinzler892y ago· 1 in thread

>it's mostly people who own 1-5 apartments in the city they live in

Owning 1 apartment is completely different than owing 5 apartments in the same city. You can live in 1 apartment but you can't live in 5 at the same time. You're profiting off the other 4 ,so you should pay tax for it.

throwaway1105qOP2y ago

Yeah, sure. As I said, I don't agree nor disagree. As far as I know, rental income is taxed everywhere in EU. I just answered why the people would revolt or vote against it - because they're probably still right there in that same city or nearby, and you're touching their personal assets, not some faceless corporation/fund.

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