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Can I get a tax reduction for employing gardener at second home in France?
Rebate is available to people who employ someone to work at their home via the Cesu system
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54% of French households did not pay income tax in 2025
Income tax brought in a record €95 billion last year despite most homes not paying any
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The little-known document that can derail a property sale in France
French property law requires certain risk information to be disclosed before a sale is completed
Parents warned on French property handover
Donating the freehold of a property to your children while you maintain use of it could be considered an abuse by the taxman from January 2020, a financial thinktank has warned .
Cercle des fiscalistes says a provision in the 2019 Finance Act means that parents donating the nue-propriété while retaining usufruit (a life interest) could end up being heavily fined.
It hopes the new text will be struck out by the Conseil Constitutionnel.
Tax payable by offspring at the time of receiving a nue-propriété gift is lower than if inheriting the same property later, as the value of the gift takes into account the fact the beneficiary does not (yet) have full rights to it.
Up to now, the arrangement could legally be contested only if it was proved to be done exclusively for tax reduction reasons. The new text changes this to “principally for tax reasons”.
