Support for second home tax proposal

Connexion readers on Facebook share their thoughts on plans to impose social charges when nonresidents sell a second home in France

I PERSONALLY find the idea of a holiday home which gets used a few months each year at most morally wrong, especially in the current state of the economy. The Parisians and the Brits have been buying up houses and apartments for holiday homes here in the south for years, boosting the house prices and pricing local young people whose families have lived in the area all their lives out of the market. How is that fair? T.B.

IT seems reasonable to me. If you can afford to own property in a foreign country, in order to make (even more) money, you can afford to be taxed on it. Some people I know rent out their shabby second, third or fourth homes for anything between £1,000 and £2,000 a week for 10 or 12 weeks a year. That’s a lot of money, more than most people earn in a year of hard work. It’s big business. W.K.

ONE has never been able to make the sort of money on selling a property in France as has been possible elsewhere. A property is seen as a home and not an investment so has always been taxed on sale as that. S.D.

MORE taxation and more (much more) spending from the French government but nothing about reducing costs. Remember Blair and Brown? And we now know what their brilliant economics did for the UK. A.O.