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Lowering cadastral income
Hello, we are in the process of buying house, however the cadastral income is crazily high. CI of the similiar houses in this area is at least 100% lower.
Has anyone has an experience of asking the kadaster office to review the current CI? What would be additional thing we could do to further lower it, would joining two small rooms together, to make one, make a difference?
If you are in the process of buying a house, you are employing a notaris who will charge you a fixed fee for all the work involved in the purchase. Ask your notaris for advice - it will not cost you any more.
Be aware that it may be that the RC of your proposed new home is about right and that it is other houses in the neighbourhood that have one that is too low.
Get down your local café and ask for advice. There are more fiddles than the London Philharmonic orchestra. Remove a staircase, (on paper) have half the "garage" as a student rental apartment......
Becasse is right. Mike is full of shit.
Your house is probably a LOT newer than other similar sized houses in the area. The CI on 30 year old houses in our neighbourhood is 2 to 3 times the CI of 60 year old houses.
To reduce the tax you pay, have kids or other depandants. Each one reduces the tax by 10%
That is quite a big difference although, I suspect, not that unusual - my house, for example, is more highly rated than most other properties in the village by a similar ratio, it is, though, only 20+ years old.
Almost certainly, your house has been rerated more recently as a result of works done to it rather than still having a value linked to its original valuation of 40 years ago.
The revenue cadastre is supposed to represent a notional rental value for the property (with the emphasis on supposed and notional), so at the time it was valued there must have been something about it that was considered particularly desirable for a rental property.
My notaire left me with the distinct impression that seeking a reduction in the RC would not be worth the effort and could even be counter-productive (as they could decide that the current value was too low). There may be some sort of valuation exercise going on at the moment as I know that some of my fellow villagers have received letters from the Cadastral Office asking a lot of questions about their houses.
It's more likely that people around haven't informed anyone if they have undertaken renovations, as I believe it's linked to rentable value so if your house in known to be in better repair then that's might explain it.
I'd suggest you discuss it with the notarie.
We found locals to us tend not to be proactive on keeping communes informed on upgrades because let's face they think why would you pay more tax than you need to.
We were warned not to let the commune reassess ours by a friend if possible because once in they will add lots of positives. And it will go up and up. Fortunately we have opposite ours is low because our house was in very bad repair. We were told by our notarie to take lots of 'ugly' pictures of house in case of any future issue about the price we paid. Good luck
