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€1.2m Dubai case ruling shows importance of knowing French tax residency rules
Couple ordered to pay backdated taxes to France
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France finally passes 2026 budget - what it means for residents
Budget has measures to help homeowners and low earners but is more punitive to business and local authorities
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Am I being overcharged on savings in France?
A reader writes about income tax demands on interest
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.
