Nautical news · June 2026
An unfair, unreadable tax adopted without consultation threatens the French nautical industry. We take a stand.
Yachting Address officially supports the manifesto at plaisancejuste.fr, led by the Confédération du Nautisme et de la Plaisance (CNP) and the Fédération des Industries Nautiques (FIN). We urge our entire community — buyers, sellers, and brokerage professionals — to sign the petition.
What is the TAEMUP?
The TAEMUP — Taxe Annuelle sur les Engins Maritimes à Usage Personnel (Annual Tax on Personal-Use Maritime Vessels) — is the annual levy paid by every owner of a pleasure boat registered in France. Included in the 2026 Finance Act, a sweeping overhaul of the tax calculation is set to take effect on 1 January 2027. The reform replaces the old fiscal horsepower scale with a new system based on engine output in kilowatts (kW), introducing four new tax brackets and unprecedented threshold effects.
In 2026, the current scales remain fully in force. From 1 January 2027 onwards, however, unless amended by legislation before then, boat owners will face the new regime — with amounts potentially very different from what they pay today.
What the problem is
Financial impact
Tens of thousands of recreational boaters could face a new annual tax bill exceeding €500, on top of already significant costs: marina fees, maintenance, insurance, and fuel.
Unreadability
Four new brackets with sharp threshold effects make the reform more complex than the current system — the opposite of the simplification the government claimed to be delivering.
Hollow green agenda
The reform claims to incentivise alternative propulsion — but such solutions simply do not yet exist at the scale of the leisure boating market. The environmental objective is meaningless in practice.
Already fragile market
The French pleasure boating market contracted by 17% in 2025. This reform risks deepening that decline and undermining the 6,000 businesses and 500 marinas that sustain coastal communities.
Why Yachting Address is speaking out
Yachting Address is a marketplace built to serve professionals and sea enthusiasts alike. Our purpose is to make boat ownership more accessible — not harder. Yet this reform directly affects the buyers we work with every day: families considering their first sailing boat, coastal cruisers, and owners of small motorised vessels.
We share the CNP and FIN's assessment: this reform was adopted without any genuine consultation with the industry, and it fails both its simplification goal and its environmental one. It disproportionately penalises popular, accessible boating — precisely the kind we exist to support.
Boating is deeply woven into the daily life of coastal regions. Burdening those who sail means burdening entire local economies: marinas, shipyards, service providers — a whole ecosystem we work alongside every day.
What we are calling for
Together with the CNP, the FIN, and the full range of signatory organisations (Fédération Française de Voile, FFPP, FNPP, France Station Nautique, Fédération Française Motonautique…), we are calling on parliamentarians to rewrite the reform before it comes into force, so that it:
- preserves access to popular and affordable recreational boating;
- is simple, readable, and understandable for all boat owners;
- genuinely contributes to funding the sector's environmental transition.
There is still time before 2027. But every voice matters if public authorities are to hear the depth of the industry's concern and commit to a real dialogue with the sector.
Make your voice heard.
Join the campaign for a fair, simple, and properly consulted boating tax.
Sign the petition →plaisancejuste.fr — an initiative by the Confédération du Nautisme et de la Plaisance (CNP)
