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BTW, welcome back to ET! *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Voter rolls are only used for jury and poll purposes, and are set up by the municipalities ; Tax rolls don't care about nationality, and are set up by the State. Also means that you can vote even though you are cheating the tax man, also,tax rolls probably don't know everybody ; married couples count as one for the tax administration, etc... Finally, some people might chose to vote in their village in the province but pay tax in Paris... (e.g. All politicians vote in their fief in some small provincial village, but live in Paris most of the time) Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
I think that is a bad thing. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
In reply to another comment of yours furthjer down, in France local authorities can't decide to raise new taxes ; they only decide the rate of state-defined taxes. All taxes are collected by the Direction générale des impôts, and then redistributed to local authorities.
Ho, and I never left, spent much time lurking. I just don't comment often :) Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
Regarding the tax collecting/distributing system, then it seems it is not much different from what we have here. Here, one of the two main tax sources of local authorities is a fixed percentage of the income tax of its registered inhabitants (which, as in France, the tax authority collects but then redistributes to local authorities according to residence registration data). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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