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Sue, did you try chasing the conciliator fiscale as you said you were going to do in early December in the other thread? https://tinyurl.com/wpybhae I also gave a link to the Public Service quality guidelines on that page which you could use as an additional lever.

Here is a link to slow cookers on Amazon France https://tinyurl.com/vqg4g6b So it seems crock pot/mijoteuse électrique programmable are the common descriptions

I received interest - see my post at the top of this page http://services.completefrance.com/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/forums/21/3657883/ShowPost.aspx#3657883 And I think you will find others on that thread mentioning having received interest payments.

NH you should have highlighted all of "as long as they remain legally resident in their host country" as well. Although I wonder how the "remain legally resident in their host country" will be checked by the UK? They could do it by making the Pension Life Certificate an annual demand?

I would suggest you point him in the direction of the British in Europe web site and specifically their series of Withdrawal Agreement papers. The paper concerning health care and pensions is https://britishineurope.org/2020/01/25/wa-health-pensions-social-security/ I suspect some of those pensioners expressing concerns in The Guardian article are those who have never registered as being there permanently, aren't paying taxes/social charges, etc. and are using an EHIC. It might have been more sensible if the reporter had asked individuals their residence status, etc first.

The official French statement is on https://brexit.gouv.fr/sites/brexit/accueil/vous-etes-britannique-en/droit-au-sejour-en.html As a British national, will I be able to vote at the next European and local elections ? As from the withdrawal date, British citizens living in France will no longer be able to take part in the election of French members of the European Parliament nor in local elections. As the condition of nationality (being a citizen of an EU Member State) provided for by Article 2-1 of the Act of 7 July 1977 on the election of members of the European Parliament and Article L.O. 227-1 of the French Electoral Code for local elections will no longer be fulfilled, British citizens will therefore lose their right to vote in these elections. Accordingly, British citizens who also have French nationality are not concerned by the foregoing.

The current cost is £480 for the 10 trips i.e. £38 each trip. Shouldn't that be £48 each trip? P&O Season Tickets are cheaper in £ http://www.poferries.com/en/dover-calais/offers/season-tickets and even cheaper in euro http://www.poferries.com/eu/dover-calais/offers/season-tickets No time-of-day travel restrictions although there are some High Season supplements for specific days http://www.poferries.com/medias/sys_master/h99/hb2/9558990389278/Season-Ticket-Peak-Dates-SS-GB-18Nov19.pdf

You obviously know you are going to live long enough to take advantage of those allowances? Even if you go with the Prudential you would still need to decide which funds to put your investments in. Why not just select some similar unit or investment trusts where you would not have all the upfront costs and would not have the possible short-term withdrawal restrictions/charges?

You can use a splitter but you will reduce the signal strength by more than 50% to each box (not a good idea as the UK signals are already weak in France) but more importantly, one box will take control of the LNB feed as different programme channels use different bands and polarisation so there will be a lot of limitations on simultaneous programmes you could watch. You should really install a quad output LNB and run two new cables from it to your additional boxes.

[quote user="Blodwyn"]Yes, I live in France, I'm not sure Assurance Vie is available in UK? The recommended accounts are Prudential, based in Dublin, but apparently portable should I ever have to return to UK. [/quote] You also don't say whether you want to invest in pounds or in euro. Given the variation in the exchange rate you could gain or lose much more than 0.5% in value quite easily at any time. Don't assume assurance vie always go up in value. They will probably need to make at 1% or more to cover their annual service charges, etc. Have you seen the publication Le Particulier http://leparticulier.lefigaro.fr ? You can subscribe (there are hefty discounts available), buy individual copies or can probably read it in your local library. It is a sort of french financial/everyday living Which? and publishes an annual tax guide (which is the main reason I subscribe for a year every few years) It has regular articles on investments. There was one recently on the best (French) euro assurance vie (which tend to be rather conservative in their investments). Have you thought about premium bonds? The annual prize interest rate is 1.4% (but taxable in France).

You don't say whether you are retired or not? You don't say whether the intention of your investment is to provide you with regular income or whether it is for a possible inheritance (the French assurance vie inheritance rules are less favourable if you make the investment when you are over 70)? Are you happy with locking money away which you won't be able to access instantaneously (or at least not without a heavy withdrawal charge)? This page gives some other (unbiased) options https://www.epargne-en-france.com/en/french-financial-investments-options/

You might even get stuff from two unseasons. Yesterday, the local Iceland Foods had Easter eggs next to the last of their mince pies.

When I received my social charges intérêts moratoire calculation earlier this month, the spreadsheet used by the tax office still had a columns which contained the calculated interest in both French Francs and euro. The first year on the spreadsheet was 1993 and the annual rate then was over 10% (if I remember correctly, I'm on holiday).

I can't remember any significant changes in tax except for savings and income tax where the default became a fixed income tax rate of 12.8% and social charges of 17.2% giving a total off 30%. However it was possible to opt for being taxed at your marginal tax rate (as was the case in previous years), which for many, would be less by checking a box on the tax form. So is it possible the accountant forgot to check the box despite working out the tax at the marginal rate?

https://www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/particulier/delais-de-reclamation Whether that covers the case where a claim has already been made and revised is another matter. But perhaps you need to query the accountant and find out why the figures are so different. Was it a poor estimate in the first place?

I've no magic proforma (and I'm not even sure whether what is below wasn't just a copy of something posted here earlier by someone else - if it was, thank you!). Not too sure about the correct French, but it does seem to have been understood! I only discovered the Public Service commitments document yesterday although I knew there was some sort of commitment from a problem I had about ten years or more ago. This was all I sent at early October: Ma demande concernant les prélèvements sociaux (+messagerie no. xxxxxxx) Il est maintenant plus de xx mois depuis ma demande xxxxxxxx et votre réponse et plus de xy mois depuis que ma demande a été envoyée au service des affaires juridiques et du contentieux de la Direction départementale des Finances Publiques. Je n'ai pas eu de communication du service des affaires juridiques et du contentieux. 1er juillet 2019: Le Conseil d'Etat applique la jurisprudence européenne de Ruyter https://www.cleiss.fr/actu/2019/1907-conseil-etat-applique-jurisprudence-europeenne-de-ruyter.html Par sa décision n° 422780 du 1er juillet dans l'affaire Dreyer, le Conseil d'État confirme l'exonération d'impositions sociales sur les revenus du patrimoine des contribuables affiliés à un régime de sécurité sociale dans un pays membre de l'Espace économique européen (EEE) autre que la France ou en Suisse, en application de la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne (CJUE) de Ruyter. Savez-vous quand cette demande sera résolue? Cordialement

It might be worth mentioning Commitment 7/Engagement 7 of the Public Service quality guidelines. Something for the conciliator? https://www.modernisation.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/fichiers-attaches/referentiel_marianne-sept-2016-web.pdf Nous répondons de façon claire et précise à vos demandes et à vos réclamations : ▪ dans un délai maximum d’une semaine, lorsqu’elles sont adressées par voie électronique (courriels, formulaires de contact en ligne, téléprocédures), ▪ dans un délai maximum de deux semaines, lorsqu’elles sont adressées par courrier.

In the Vosges (88). All the communications I have made have been through the tax web site messaging. They seem to go to my local tax office, given the name of the person who normally replies. I sent a message in July after the law was approved. When nothing had happened after three months, I sent a reminder message in October saying I'd not heard anything for three months and included a request for the details of the tax conciliator. I think that got things going. I had a message saying I would hear soon and at the end of October I received an e-mail and then a letter from the departmental tax office in Epinal saying my claim had been approved. The letter had an address and an e-mail for the conciliator, [email protected] I assume that is a standard format so you just need to change the department number. I'd suggest an e-mail to your conciliator.

My claim is now completely settled. Just a couple of days short of a year since I made the claim. I had a bank transfer earlier in the week which I assumed from the amount, was my intérêts moratoire. Today, two further letters. One contained a cheque for the missing year; why wasn't paid by bank transfer like the refunds for other two years and why was it dated 13 Nov but only posted on 4 Dec? The other letter contained a breakdown of the intérêts moratoire. Those calculations were based on the number of days in each of the years an amount was owed with the interest calculated at 4.8% interest for 2016 and 2017 and 2.40% for 2018 and 2019. For some reason the 2017 and 2018 only had 360 days in their interest calculations for the 2016 and 2017 claims?

An update. After the initial e-mail confirming the amounts of the refunds for the three years, I received a letter stating the same. Last week I received three further letters, one for each year with a revised avis for the tax and social charges. They both mentioned there would be intérêts moratoires. So plenty of paperwork to give them something to do! Two of payments appeared as transfers in my bank account. This week I received another letter (dated 12/11) containing a cheque. This was for a small refund of income tax. One year I'd overpaid because I'd paid in three instalments. They'd netted that off against the social charges owed. So oddly, they've paid that tax refund by cheque rather than by bank transfer. But I've still not had the social charges refund for that year or the intérêts moratoires for the three years. I now wonder whether I'll have to wait until mid-December as they only seem to do bank transfer refunds/payments around the 15th of the month?

That East India name made me do a search and I found it on this web site (50cl bottle) http://tinyurl.com/v74jfnj along with many other sherries https://www.drinksco.fr/vin-jerez although delivery is more.

As is pointed out in that article there were lorries over the 19 ton weight limit often using the bridge and no one stopped them. It seems, from press reports, the lorry on the bridge was over 40 tons. They need to do something to stop this misuse.

Gardian wrote: Anybody know what’s going to happen over the audiovisuel element in the current TdH? Will it simply be collected via Taxe Fonciere? The TdH will continue as the Macron reductions do not apply to secondary residences and it will still be charges for primary residences for those who pay the l'impôt sur la fortune immobilière (IFI) or those with higher revenu fiscal de référence (27 432 € for one part and 43 688 € for two parts tax) I'm also not sure how the 100% TdH reduction is going to work. But as I understand it the reduction is given on the 2018 TdH figure. However the local councils are now setting TdH higher than 2018 TdH so the difference will still need to be paid for sums over the 100% of the 2018 TdH. So I assume the audiovisual tax (reduced a euro to 138€ for 2019) will still be included in any future TdH bills until they decide the cost of collecting it is getting too high and it gets subsumed into general taxation.

I think it would be rather hard to get a thermometer probe into the centre of turkey oysters and then get an accurate reading. We low-temperature sous vide beef steaks, duck fillets, chicken breasts, etc. It would work well on the oysters. They could then be given a coating and a quick fry just to get that crunchy or covered in a sauce.

Yes, a pack of four labelled "Sot-l'y-laisse de dinde a mijoter" 0.408kg original price per kilo 11.90€. We'd seen them in the anti-gaspi before but not known what they were. I'd taken a photo of the label to identify when we got home. Not sure how often they are on sale. Given how thick they were they would have needed some time for the centre to be cooked through. So next time we have them they'll each be halved or cut into three. Looking on the internet, most recipes seen to indicate 20-40 mins but the sizes in the photos do seem to vary.