Question 10978 — local authorities

Summary

Mr. Julien Gokel draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the threats posed by the draft finance law (PLF) for 2026 on industrial territories. Despite the ambitions reaffirmed by successive governments in favor of reindustrialization, the PLF 2026 once again presents a significant risk for local authorities located in industrial areas. However, welcoming businesses and more particularly industrial activities requires considerable investment by communities: land development, infrastructure development, adaptation of transport networks, housing construction, social and environmental support, etc. These investments require sustainable financial support from the State. In the In Dunkirk, for example, ongoing industrial changes should generate nearly 20,000 jobs by the end of the decade. Local authorities are mobilizing considerable resources to support this historic turning point. However, several provisions of the PLF 2026 compromise this trajectory. First, the once again scheduled reduction in the compensation allocation for the professional tax reform (DCRTP) weakens territories often heirs to important industrial zones, even though this allocation was designed to compensate for losses linked to the abolition of the professional tax. Then, other measures provided for in the PLF reduce the compensation for tax losses borne by communities. Thus, the fraction of VAT allocated to communities to compensate for the abolition of the CVAE should be clipped. Even more serious, the text provides for a 25% reduction in compensation for the abatement on business property taxes. Such a measure could cost several million euros to certain municipalities in Dunkirk as well as to the Dunkirk Urban Community (CUD). These financial assistance from the State, initially designed to support reindustrialization and guarantee the attractiveness of territories, are thus called into question. By going back on these commitments, the Government risks weakening the confidence of local elected officials and slowing down the transformation dynamic underway. These reductions in compensation, combined with other measures of the PLF such as the “DILICO 2” system, or even with provisions of the social security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2026, in particular the increase in the old-age contribution rate for employers territorial to the CNRACL, will hit industrial intermunicipalities hard. For some of them, the accumulation of these measures could represent a loss equivalent to 5% of real operating revenues, at the very time when they must face growing needs in terms of public services, housing and infrastructure. Local authorities are not responsible for the degradation of the national budget. Current imbalances are due in particular to the choices to eliminate several pillars of local taxation, thus depriving the State of long-term resources. The reindustrialization of France cannot be done without the territories, nor against them. On the contrary, it supposes guaranteeing them the necessary means to support industrial projects and make them levers of balanced development. He asks her consequence if the Government intends to revise these provisions of the PLF for 2026 in order to guarantee industrial territories the financial means necessary for their transformation and the success of the national reindustrialization strategy.

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