2023-10-05 16:10:32
The tax pressure in Andenne is historically high: a personal tax rate of 8.6 since 2017 and additional cents to the property tax of 2700 since 2014, increased to 2800 this year. For the mayor of Andenne Claude Eerdekens, increasing this tax was a question of “political courage. Everything increases,” he explains, “the expenses of our staff, energy supplies, all the work carried out.”
“Our increase is not one, he continues, in relation to the increase in all income of citizens. Increasing by an additional 100 cents is to keep pace with inflation and the indexation of wages. This is a correction compared to the index. And we can’t even keep up with the index.”
Claude Eerdekens would like to add that “the people of Anden pay less to their city than the people of Namur, the people of Nivellois, the citizens of Gesves, of Ohey, etc.” This does not mean that they are taxed less, but that the average amount collected by the municipality is lower in Andenne than in certain neighboring municipalities. And this is what pushes the municipality to increase tax rates. To increase revenue. With tax pressure which therefore continues to grow.
No municipality takes such an unpopular measure willingly. “Communities do not increase their taxes for the sake of it, concludes Arnaud Dessoy, the head of municipal finances at Belfius, so if they did it, it is because they probably had no other choice. They are forced to present a balanced budget.
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