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Prélèvement à la source

Prélèvement à la source

When you received your “avis d’imposition” back at the end of August, some of you would have to pay some Monthly amount September to December to make up the tax for the year 2020. If this was your first tax form, from September to December you are paying the tax for...

Properties declarations

Properties declarations

All of you that own a house in France must have received an email from the tax office (see below) telling you to go to your personal page online to declare who lives in your properties. Panic not as the tax office has made it available in English for you so go to your...

Social charges on private pensions outside of France

Social charges on private pensions outside of France

irst of all, this article is not for you if you are in receipt of a state pension meaning you are under the French health system via an S1 form. This is only for people who are in receipt of a private pension (not government pension like civil...

How to declare your tax online

How to declare your tax online

A few notes to start with Bad news this year is that you have to re-enter all the details of your bank accounts held outside of France as they have changed it to include pay pal and assurance vie accounts. To save time, you can go to your personal page and print the...

Social charges: how to claim it back ! Again !

Social charges: how to claim it back ! Again !

SG CRDS (French social charges) is for sure the most unpopular tax in France, not just for British people but also for French! Yes, even worse than VAT. We call it the weed, because like weeds, it grows everywhere, and you can’t get rid of it!...

Reducing your income tax legally

Reducing your income tax legally

h no, like me and 50 million French residents, you have received your French income tax bill in August and maybe wondering how you could reduce this bill without getting less income!!Of course! Well did you know that finding ways to reduce your...

How to pay your « taxe fonciere » or habitation online

How to pay your « taxe fonciere » or habitation online

ome of you are obliged to pay their taxe fonciere online if the amount is above 600 euro. You do not need to create a personal account or get onto your personal tax customer account. You simply go to www.impots.gouv.fr and click on “espace...

How to get the tax office website access codes

How to get the tax office website access codes

K, as if filling it the French income tax form was not hard enough, you now must do it online!!  The French government passed a law in 2016 stating that by 2020, everybody will do it online and they are gradually forcing everybody to do it. In...

How to avoid the double taxation

How to avoid the double taxation

have found out during my tax filling forms marathon that many of you still pay tax on your private and state pensions in the UK, even though you are declaring them in France. There is a double taxation agreement between France and the UK which...

Income tax: 2020

Income tax: 2020

ES! It’s that time of the year again when we start receiving the dreaded income tax form to fill in (from mid-April to Mid-May)! Some of you thought that the new changes with Monthly payments taken at source (prélèvement à la source) would stop...

Tax information: Forgetting box 20P and the S1 boxes

Tax information: Forgetting box 20P and the S1 boxes

s all of you have received their avis d’imposition, I have noticed two things that could be of interest to you all! And could save you money!   New information on Social charges: The French government has changed the law regarding social charges....

No social charges on UK rental income

No social charges on UK rental income

ll of you would have by now received their income tax bill and some of you had the bad surprise to have been charged social charges on UK rental income. Well, as you know, this income is taxed in the UK and even though it has to be declared in...

Capital gains tax on property sale in France and abroad

Capital gains tax on property sale in France and abroad

1)What is capital gain: It’s basically the tax on the gain you made on the sale of a property (building or land) so the difference between the buying price and the selling price.   2) who pays it: Any seller who is a French resident and make a gain in France or...