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A penalizing reform
First and foremost, this reform will penalize popular and accessible boating: family boating, small-scale recreational fishing, and modest-sized coastal vessels. Several tens of thousands of yachtsmen could find themselves faced with a new tax that could exceed ?500 a year, on top of their already heavy burdens. Over and above the financial impact, access to a practice that is part of everyday life in coastal areas is threatened.
The proposed system is also illegible. The introduction of four new tax brackets based on kW power, with marked threshold effects, makes the tax harder to understand and reinforces users' sense of injustice.
In environmental terms, the reform misses the mark. It claims to encourage the use of electric powertrains in power segments for which these solutions do not yet exist on a market scale.
Last but not least, this measure comes at a time when the French yachting market has already shrunk by 17% by 2025. Such a reform risks accentuating this trend, and permanently weakening the yachting businesses, from sales to maintenance, which provide a livelihood for many coastal employment areas.
Faced with these facts, we call on members of parliament and elected representatives to review this project in depth, so that it :
- preserves access to popular and accessible yachting,
- is simple, readable and comprehensible to all,
- makes a real contribution to financing the sector's environmental transition.
Boating and fishing professionals and enthusiasts are urgently calling for the law to be rewritten. The Confédération du Nautisme et de la Plaisance, together with all its members, is launching the appeal "Pour une plaisance juste et accessible" ("For fair and accessible boating").
All professionals, enthusiasts and players in the sector are invited to relay this mobilization widely to their networks, in order to make the voice of yachting heard, and to sign the online petition .
