• In less than ten years, the future LGV between Bordeaux and Toulouse should make it possible to reach the Capital from the Pink City in 3h10.

  • To finance this Grand Sud-Ouest project, which also includes the section between Bordeaux and Hendaye, a new special equipment tax has just been introduced.

  • It will be paid in particular by the landowners of 2,340 municipalities in 14 departments and should represent less than 4 euros per year per tax household.

This year, landowners in the small town of Lestelle-Saint-Martory, south of Toulouse, will see a new line appear on their tax sheet: that of the Special Equipment Tax (TSE).

The revenue from this TSE should contribute to financing the future high-speed line between Bordeaux and Toulouse, but also that between Bordeaux and Hendaye.

It should correspond to a 0.4% increase in their property tax, "which should represent 3 to 4 euros more per year and per household", indicated a few months ago Carole Delga, the PS president of the Occitanie region. .

A territory particularly concerned by this new high-speed line which should be put into service "maximum in 2032" and put the Pink City at 3h10 from Paris.

Logically, its population will be affected by this new contribution, like that of New Aquitaine.

But not everyone will be subject to it.

Thus, the inhabitants of Castillon-Saint-Martory, a village which touches that of Lestelle, will not be subject to this tax levy for a history of four minutes of difference.



60 minutes from a future LGV station

Indeed, if it takes 59 minutes to reach Toulouse from Lestelle, it takes 1h03 to reach the Pink City when you live in Castillon.

However, according to article 77 of the 2023 finance law, published on December 30, this new tax applies "in municipalities located less than sixty minutes by motor vehicle from a station served by the future high-speed line speed ".

And by decree of December 31, the list of the 2,340 municipalities concerned was thus drawn up.

There are obviously Toulouse and Bordeaux or even Montauban, but also a whole host of towns and villages in 14 departments concerned by these high-speed rail axes, from the Dordogne to the Charente-Maritime via the Tarn, the Lot and the Ariege.

It will be paid by all owners subject to property taxes on built and unbuilt properties, but also to housing tax on second homes and other furnished premises not assigned to the main dwelling, as well as to the property contribution. companies.

This TSE should bring in 29.5 billion euros each year, which will supplement the funding provided by the State, Europe and local authorities for a Major Project in the South West, the cost of which is currently 14 billion. euros in total, including 10.3 billion just for the LGV portion between Bordeaux and Toulouse.

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