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Taxe foncière bills - why many French communes are not raising rates this year
Less than 13% of communes have implemented additional increases
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Partner article: How procrastination can hurt your wealth in France
The costs of waiting can be high if certain details are ignored – and a little planning can go a long way
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Partner article: What is happening with US ‘tax fairness’ bill?
Bill to change citizenship-based taxation system is gaining cross-party support
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.