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The Connexion has compiled a series of helpsheets to explain the practicalities of everyday life in France. They are provided in pdf format viewable in Adobe Acrobat and are updated regularly. If there is a topic or a question about life in France that you would like us to cover which is not listed here please email us the details at help@connexionfrance.com and we will endeavour to find you an answer. A selection of the question and answers will be published (anonymously).

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Title Description Price Select
French Residential Taxes This helpsheet comprises information previously published
in The Connexion.

• Taxe d’Habitation
• Taxe Fonciere
• Other French residential taxes
• TV licences in France
€ 5.00
Tax rebates for environmentally friendly renovations. Related articles This helpsheet comprises information previously published
in The Connexion.

• Getting EDF to pay you for electricity
• Asbestos, termites, lead: Understand the checks you need
• Three streets of ‘eco-friendly’ homes
• What assistance is thereto help me turn green? – benefit from ‘credits d’impot’ which are offered by the government
• Can I put up a 10m wind turbine?
• How to get ‘tax credits’ for home improvements if you do not pay tax
• Maintenance of gas and other appliances
• Can British pensioners living in France claim the UK fuel allowance?
€ 5.00
Letting out your home to holiday makers This helpsheet comprises information previously published in The Connexion.

* Which homes rent out best
* Key Facts: Furnishings - Documents - Deposit - Taxes - Insurance
* Employing maintenance staff
* Listing as a meuble de tourisme / marketing options
€ 5.00
Wealth Tax - ISF Certain of this information has been previously published in The Connexion.

• Who is liable
• What is taxed
• Valuing a property for wealth tax
• Strategies to reduce the tax
• Which regions pay the most tax
€ 5.00
Buying Property in France - the SCI option This helpsheet is produced in association with the Conseils des Notaires

*What is a Societe Civile Immobiliere - property investment partnership?
*Setting up an SCI
*Running an SCI
*Using an SCI well
*When a partner leaves
*Winding up an SCI
€ 7.50
The auto-entrepreneur regime The auto-entrepreneur regime is a simplified version of an existing kind of small business set-up, the micro-entreprise.
Some of the information in the helpsheet has been previously published in The Connexion.

* The status of auto-entrepreneur
* Declaring your business
* Social charges and income tax
* Questions and Answers
* Reader queries addressed
€ 5.00
French Income Tax: Completing the main 2008 forms *Written for Britons living in France
*Step by step illustrated guide to the form
*How to declare your income from pensions, gites etc
*Exchange rates to use
*French tax deadline dates
*Terminology and concepts of the forms
€ 5.00
Death in France *Formalities
*Burial or Cremation
*Financing a Funeral
*Organ Donation
€ 5.00
Eco pret - the interest-free loan for green renovations An interest-free loan of up to €30,000 is available to carry out environmental improvements to your home.

Certain of this information has been previously published in The Connexion.

*What sort of work is covered
*How and where to apply
*What the terms on the form mean
*How to complete the application form
*What steps to take to make sure you get the loan
€ 5.00
CESU - employing people at your home The government’s Cesu system: set up to allow people, gardeners, cleaners etc to legally undertake odd jobs around your home.

Certain of this information has been previously published in The Connexion.

*How to set yourself up as an employer via Cesu
*What you need to pay and to whom
*The tax benefits you can receive
*Exemptions from paying social charges
*Your rights and the rights of the employee
*Whether you need a contract and the laws surrounding employment
*How to end a contract
€ 5.00

 
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