Practical

It is always important to understand the tax implications when buying property, particularly where a foreign tax regime is involved and/or you have liabilities in more than one country.

When it comes to selling a property, and you know that the sale price will be greater than what you paid for it, one of the immediate concerns might be to know how much the tax office is going to take.

My wife and I live in France but are planning to spend the summer with our son and his family in the UK. We will want to move money across from France (euros to sterling) to cover our needs - what is the best solution?

French consumer fraud agency the DGCCRF has warned firms it is illegal to refuse payments in euros from bank accounts in other EU countries, including the UK, under the SEPA agreement.

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Notaires expect the property market in France to stabilise this year, after a record 12 months of sales for older properties (those over five years old, referred to as ancien).

More than two-thirds of legal transactions are now signed electronically at notaires’ offices in France and the first to be signed this way à distance, when the two different parties are not in the same office, have already been carried out.

July 2018

Learning French can be one of the biggest challenges related to a move to France but there are lots of ways of taking lessons – at local clubs, with a private teacher, online or with one of the many recognised bodies like the Alliance Française and online CNED.

Private schooling is increasingly popular in France but bears little resemblance to the UK

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People on France’s most common welfare benefit, the revenue de solidarité active RSA, may be required by their department to do ‘voluntary’ work after a ruling by the country’s highest administrative court.