The government has revealed who exactly will benefit from its plans to abolish council tax for 80 percent of people living in France. The move to abolish council tax for 80 percent of people living in France by 2020 has been championed by French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe alike. "Council tax is a bad tax, an unfair tax, the basis for which was set in the 1970s without taking into account the development of towns, or areas. At the moment, council tax represents 36 percent of the tax income for the local districts, with Macron promising that the state with compensate for the deficit to the nearest euro. This relates to the fact that the council tax rates were set in the 1970s, according to the land registry valuations of the time, many of which have changed in the intervening decades.

Source: The Local September 14, 2017 10:18 UTC