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Income tax bands in France for declarations in 2026 (for 2025 income)
The thresholds are usually updated each year in line with inflation
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Are children living outside of France obliged to look after their parents?
Both parents and children have familial obligations to financially support each other
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11% more first French residency cards issued in 2025 than in 2024
Some 15,000 first-issue permits were granted to Americans and 7,870 to Britons, provisional figures show
'Train marshals’ on TGVs
Measure taken to improve public safety
Plain-clothed, armed gendarmes have been travelling on TGV trains as part of Interior Ministry tests for US-style ‘train marshals’ to improve security against terror attacks like that in 2015 on the Amsterdam-Paris Thalys train.
Trained by the GIGN ‘swat’ squad, the six gendarmes travelled in pairs and kept out of minor crimes to keep their anonymity and an element of surprise in case of an attack.
The ministry will now decide whether marshals will be used across the network.
