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devils advocate

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  1. but selling personal effects on the market does NOT require registration? We see a lot of housewives selling little things, I do not think they are registered for anything
  2. unthinkable here (I live part time in Canada) never had a problem with a bank if a mistake is made - money into wrong account - one phone call suffices to fix the problem. I keep my money here and drip them into my French bank account.  The largest sum we deposited was 40K euro. Good bank, the french postal office!  so far no problems, no disappearing funds, no imaginary checks, all it well.
  3. we love AUDIO because he is funny.  I enjoy your posts....
  4. uhm, they did come to help us with the demolition - it was definitely planned an coordinated. The timing - one starts university in October, the other had 2 weeks unused holidays he chose to spend in France. The third one joined a bit later because he had a serious argument with his wife and wanted to cool off his head. so I would say there is a definite connection between their "working holidays" and the shed demolition! The way we see it,  we did help a lot their families before, (mostly financially - we are well off and they weren't) and it is definitely exchange of favours between the family members - gratitude? I really don't see how the authorities can prevent people from helping for free or giving gifts to the family members. All my sarcasm in the previous post aside - I think it the world would be better off if people snitched less and helped more.
  5. You are TOO EAGER to report!!! We bought an old house in Burgundy. My 3 twenty-something nephews came from Poland for short period (2 weeks) to help us demolish a huge steel shed  that we didn't want to keep. (and yes, we do have the permit to demolish).  And, ahem, I was born in Poland so this is where a lot of my family still lives. My husband (who speaks English only) was working with them today when the Gendarmes showed up! ('') They tried to question the boys who only speak Polish and some English, so no conversation there, and then turned to my husband who by gestures etc explained to them that he is the owner.  Easy enough to check this one - he gave them his name and age but they did not ask to see his passport. The Gendarmes left, but now we are all uneasy! My guess is that an overeager neighbour called them in - thinking my husband and my nephews were all illegal workers! We paid bus fares for the boys, they are staying in our house, we feed them and after work we take them to see the tourist sights. We will of course give them some gifts on departure, and perhaps some pocket money... but they mostly have fun being in France and learning to use power tools! Does that make them undocumented workers? I am worried that Gendarmes continue to pester us and perhaps all the other offices which you so hotly recommend to denounce others to! We are not doing jobs for other people, but you can say that we took anyway French jobs (or yours) by doing the demolition ourselves rather than hiring people. According to your line of thought, we should be declaring and paying taxes on our own work performed in our own property since technically we deprived some chap of 22 euro per hour wage ?
  6. your statement doesn't make sense. "take up token ... residences to avoid paying tax"... meaning he really lives elsewhere and living in France helps him to avoid taxes in his "real", not-token domicile? Grammar aside, I always question why "little people" are so keen on denouncing and criticizing other "little people" for trying to pay less in taxes while not batting an eye when multimillionaires can get away with paying nothing...  These are the ones capable of hiring ace lawyers and ace accountants to advise them. Of course, he should have paid the extra $295 so the highly-overpaid politician can blow it off on his fancy dinner.... we cannot deprive these at the top of their perks, right?  We, the little people should, in fact, not only try to pay every coin of the taxes owed, but we should send our savings as donations to the government, too!!!
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