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Reminder: deadline to correct French tax return is tonight
Taxpayers can update information online until midnight June 25
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French tax authorities now have more time to update incorrect second home tax bills
Deadline for officials to levy taxes missed due to calculation errors or owner omissions has been extended
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UK inheritance tax changes: questions raised over impacts for Britons in France
Full implications are still being assessed by legal experts
Unit for owning up to tax evasion closes
A service allowing tax avoiders to own up and avoid heavier penalties if found out, has closed, having collected €8 billion in tax and penalties
Some 14,000 remaining applications will still be dealt with this year. It opened in 2013 after controversy over the then budget minister who was found to have hidden money abroad.
An increasing number of countries, including all EU ones, are now in theory open to the automatic exchange of information on bank accounts, even if, partly for technical reasons, this is not yet operational everywhere.
