The decision of the French government to temporarily suspend the Franco-Luxembourg tax treaty dating from 2018 and which entered into force in 2021, is not only happy. If, on the one hand, cross-border workers who accumulate income from Luxembourg and French sources have seen their taxes increase with the new method of calculation and obtained, thanks to this unexpected about-face, a return for two years to the old system, the public finance centers of Thionville-Hayange and Metz, called upon to reprocess tax declarations, deplore an “additional workload” which “has serious consequences on the staff”, indicates Sylvie Pineiro, departmental secretary FO Public Finances Moselle.
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Do and undo
On Monday, October 25, the intersyndicale – Solidaires, FO, CGT, CFDT and CFTC Finances Publiques Moselle – carried out an “information” operation in front of the public finance center of Thionville, two weeks after the strike by officials from the tax services of the Thionville, Hayange and Metz sites which are the main contributors. “In June, 50,000 declarations in paper and internet formats from cross-border workers were taken up one by one. Today, we have to redo the work backwards for 25,000 declarations… initially, ”continues Sylvie Pineiro, who regrets that“ we are not able to create a computer program specific to cross-border commuters ”. “We have not finished hearing about this story, engages Philippe Ostrogorski, representative of Solidaires Finances Publiques 57. The entire Grand Est region is called upon to absorb this overload. I am not sure that in the Marne or the Vosges, for example, we are very aware of the issues facing people living in Luxembourg… ”
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Restructuring of services
Another point of tension was denounced by the intersyndicale on Monday: the restructuring of the tax services of Moselle north with the imminent merger of the public finance centers of Thionville and Hayange at 1is January 2022. “Hayange closes and settles in Thionville. Today, in Moselle there are 70 empty chairs, 70 vacant agent posts which cannot be found. “And to question:” Each year at the time of sending the declarations, the cars are parked in double line in front of the tax office, what will it be after the merger? How are we going to manage these flows? ”
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