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Has anyone been tempted to think about buying shares in FDJ, the French government's Loto monopoly, which is being privatised today?

Looking back to EDF, another ex government monopoly, whose shares were launched at €32 in 2006 and which are now worth about €9, past history isn't very encouraging. However, the return on conventional savings is so...

If you have an S1 or are non resident and were charged social charges on investment income, apparently you should now reclaim them

I was looking for years for a company that could not only transfer money at a good rate unlike rip-off banks but also had a 'wallet account. A wallet account allows you to 'hold' money until a the currency you want to transfer money into achieves a good transfer rate. I knew of one based in Poland and then last year Transferwise created a...

Not for me but am asking on behalf of someone else who is non resident, has no French bank account and finding it very difficult to pay the taxes foncières and taxe d'habitation.

They want to pay by UK debit card and I know that it can be done on the impôts télépaiement site but as I suspected it wants your numéro fiscal before it will let you do...

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Can anyone suggest a decent bank account? I was given a suggestion for the post office bank. I was told that their charges were cheaper. Any other suggestions out there?

Noticed today the Taxes habitation avis 2019 is now online.

Its social charge time again, ours came today. Looks like its tuna and pasta for Christmas :lol:

Had an odd situation with a rental this week, company contracted with me for a 3 month rental for a new employee, paid 1st months rent, wanted a get out clause if he was not retained beyond the first months trial, - no problem, said that he would pay the cheque de caution, all no problem for me.

It turned out to be a sort of re-insertion with the...

It’s online now.

My banque account has been creditted with €138 with the description : Ddfip De La Haute Vienne 1e08700

I know that they are the centre for processing payments from Les Impôts and other government departments but I have no idea what this amount is for.

I am à jour with my prélèvements for impôts, taxes foncières & habitation and all of them...

We sold our french house at the end of Feb. 2018, first compromis in Sept. 2017, and moved back permnanently to the UK :( After a lot of moving, couch surfing etc we're finally settled . The move has added about 10 years to my life.
But the french fisc are still after us! I completed and sent off the declaration last May 2018 for 2 months of the...

Okay - so out TDH have always been in my name - I pay them every month and Mr B give me a cheque about now for his share. TDH arrived - guess what - his name is now first, the fiscal number has changed and there is no notice of prelev. I telephoned - yes I was calm but taking no shit. The first person I spoke to didnt understand what my problem...

Well have those in the Dordogne received their paperwork yet - we have and they are starting to put the systems in place not far from us. Apparently the charge for emptying your bins and reclycling bins in general and the decheteries will all be changing. They say it will be deducted frol your THab. You have to fill in the form, then you will get...

Does anyone know if one exists, or if you have a complaint about insurance who do you go to to make a complaint?

Our recent insurance claim (after storm damage) is not paying us for the Humax box and the other decoder we had, they say because they are not available in France . However I've pointed out that the TV sat man is siret registered, and...

Just wondering who you all use, and if your experience has been good, bad or indifferent.

Currently we are with allianz for house, health and 2 cars and previously with Axa. As advised by others I think it's time for a change.

Any good?

Looks like the house purchase may actually happen, opened a bank account with them at my local branch, and they have offered house insurance also, I know saga do holiday home insurance also, but just wondered what people recommended here?

JD

Apologies in advance if this has been discussed recently but I can't find a relevant topic.

I've just looked at our Avis and we have been hit with Social Charges on our UK rental income which we've never had before, have the rules changed this year?

We are in the French Social Security system.

This may be helpful to some.

I spend up to 9 months of every year in UK and the rest in France. I found Metro Bank very handy for the no-commission top notch exchange rate on the debit card in Europe and recently started to use a Starling Bank card because that gives an equally good rate all over the world when using its debit card.

Today, while...

Do any members use Cheque Emploi Service?
I understand that , once registered, it may now be possible to use ordinary personal cheques to pay and then complete info online. Do you have any experience or knowledge of this. Does cesu work well for you? Any pitfalls?
Thanks

How does that work.
We get a number of tax fonciers at this time of year for anything we own private or company owned.
This year we got two exonerations for company owned properties.
Amount to pay 0
Never had that before.

Hi
Just looking at our bill and I notice the name of our house is spelt incorrectly, it is actually the exact name of another house in our village which is a very large farmhouse.
Is there somewhere I can check without making a fool of myself. Is there something on the bill that I can use to work how it is calculated.

I have noticed that under...

Where does the abolition of this tax now stand?

Heads up. The documents have been posted in the on-line system. (At least mine has!)

Supposedly if you started work before the age of 20 (and are able to prove NI contributions in the UK) you can retire at 60 here if you accumulated more than 168 trimestres in total between the two countries, has anyone heard of carriere longue?