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    French tax on UK pension fund

    in French Finance

    Posted

    You will have to pay UK tax on the 75%. Utmost will deduct it automatically so you won't receive the full sum from Utmost. But you will eventually be able to claim the tax back (or the Inland Revenue will eventually refund it automatically) if you have told the Inland Revenue you are resident in France for tax purposes.

    I think you will find this article explains your various options for declaring in France, depending on the size of the fund https://www.french-property.com/news/tax_france/lump_sum_pension_payments/

    Vaccine appointments

    in Health

    Posted

    The same announcements have been made by Les Hauts-de-France and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Expect more departments to follow in the coming days.

    «Afin de garantir l'administration de la seconde injection pour toutes les personnes ayant déjà reçu la première dose en janvier, l'ensemble des rendez-vous de primo vaccination (1ère injection) prévus jusqu'au mardi 2 février inclus seront déprogrammés et immédiatement reprogrammés à partir de la première semaine de mars», écrit l'Agence régionale de Santé (ARS) des Hauts-de-France dans un communiqué.

    Son vis-à-vis en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté avertit, quant à elle, que «certains rendez-vous pris en février pour une première injection sont susceptibles d'être reportés de quelques jours ou semaines». «Aucun rendez-vous ne sera annulé», assure l'agence dans un communiqué. La réservation en ligne de nouveaux rendez-vous sera à nouveau possible «dans les prochains jours», promet-elle, disant «mesurer l'impatience légitime des candidats à la vaccination».

    from https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/en-direct-covid-19-pandemie-confinement-couvre-feu-veran-20210128

    There is a delay in the Pfizer deliveries as due to upgrades of the production plant https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55666399

    Has anyone managed to connect to sante.fr today?

    in Health

    Posted

    I tried sante.fr a couple of times and also received the message about all times already taken.

    I then registered for doctolib.fr and found time slots. However, having selected times for the first and second injections, it failed to confirm the reservations.

    Perhaps I'll try again next week.

    It seems we are not alone. Problems reported everywhere in France https://www.lefigaro.fr/social/j-y-ai-passe-la-matinee-sans-decrocher-de-creneau-la-galere-des-prises-de-rendez-vous-pour-la-vaccination-des-plus-de-75-ans-20210114

    Has anyone managed to connect to sante.fr today?

    in Health

    Posted

    Le Quotidien du Medecin has an unofficial interactive map of the Covid vaccination centres. You can zoom in, click on a place and get details such as address, phone, opening hours, etc.

    https://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/actus-medicales/sante-publique/vaccination-covid-la-carte-des-centres-reserves-aux-professionnels-de-sante

    or this short URL https://tinyurl.com/y3w4fc2x

    It is updated regularly (442 adresses répertoriées au 14/01/2021, 10h40)

    Has anyone managed to connect to sante.fr today?

    in Health

    Posted

    If he is still has a job, Castex is due to give an update on vaccine strategy at 1800 today.

    I wonder what excuse he will give for this failure?

    Given the heavy snow here in the east of France, I hope the strategy includes an allowance for large number of no-shows due to difficulties in driving to vaccination centres and the consequent possible vaccine waste?

    Disinheritance Question

    in French Legal Issues

    Posted

    mint wrote: If an "English" will were made now, since Brexit, would the law about according to the will-maker's UK preference be honoured?

    It is worth reading this page for a brief summary:

    from https://www.blevinsfranks.com/news/article/your-last-will-and-testament-france

    It includes

    1.It is important to note that, when drawing up wills in the UK, it is the practice to include a provision to automatically revoke all earlier wills. So if you make a French will, and subsequently change your UK one, make sure your solicitor knows about your French will so that he does not inadvertently revoke it, with quite unintended consequences.

    and

    2. The EU succession regulation 650/2012 (known as ‘Brussels IV’), which came into effect in August 2015, allows foreign nationals to opt, through a statement in their will, for the succession law of their country of nationality to apply on their death. So British expatriates can now avoid French succession law by electing for UK law to apply to their estate instead.

    NOTE " through a statement in their will"

    The will (in French) I wrote last year with help from a English/French notaire included a paragraph which mentioned

    1. European Regulation (EU) n ° 650/2012 of July 4, 2012, relating to jurisdiction and applicable law of succession

    2. choosing English law to govern the entire estate, and

    3. excluding French law except for the validity of the will, which was drawn up in France where I am resident.

    Rapid roll-out of vaccine? Yes, but not in France....!

    in Health

    Posted

    NormanH: I think it would be useful if you looked at the quote you took from my post and then looked at your calendar!

    You quoted a le Figaro article here on 8 Jan but seem to have forgotten even the first few paragraphs.

    Will this repeat link to that article help? https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/covid-19-comment-prendre-rendez-vous-pour-se-faire-vacciner-20210107

    Or perhaps this from Les Echos today

    https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/covid-les-inscriptions-a-la-vaccination-debuteront-jeudi-pour-les-plus-de-75-ans-1280074

    Tax inspection - 4BA / 4BL - questions

    in French Finance

    Posted

    If you search here you will find many posts on declaring UK rental income. This is one of the most comprehensive http://services.completefrance.com/forums/completefrance-forums/cs/forums/3667511/ShowPost.aspx

    This is the official guide used by the tax office https://www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/www2/fichiers/documentation/brochure/ir_2020/accueil.htm

    download the PDF version and you can search for the relevant tax form lines

    From https://www.economie.gouv.fr/entreprises/regime-reel-normal-imposition

    Le régime réel normal concerne les entreprises soumises à l'impôt sur le revenu ou à l'impôt sur les sociétés. Il est le régime par défaut des entreprises dont le chiffre d'affaires hors taxes est supérieur à : 789 000 € pour les entreprises de vente et de fourniture de logement.

    Rapid roll-out of vaccine? Yes, but not in France....!

    in Health

    Posted

    Catalpa wrote: What I really can't understand is why France is so vaccine-averse. A country that is so wedded to its pills and potions... why?

    In the 1990s hepatitis B vaccination was compulsory in schools. There were then rumours of increased multiple sclerosis cases and the vaccination was rapidly dropped. That caused the concerns. In 2002 the World Health Organization said “despite a slightly elevated odds ratio observed in the initial studies, none showed a statistically significantly elevated risk".

    In 2009 the H1N1 bird flu vaccines was linked to (unproven) narcolepsy. The H1N1 also helped turn the French from vaccination centres to wanting to receive it from their own doctor.

    A 2019 learned journal article "Why France is making eight new vaccines mandatory" gives more detail (2. How vaccines became controversial in France) https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01789212/file/Ward%20Verger.pdf

    Rapid roll-out of vaccine? Yes, but not in France....!

    in Health

    Posted

    CeeJay wrote: Just a simple practical point but presumably I will be contacted by CPAM or my MT when my turn comes around for the vaccine, or is it some other body?

    Last week it was said they would be sending out invitations, presumably in much the same way as is done for the flu vaccinations. There was no more detail, but presumably that was going to contain a reference to seeing your doctor so you could be told everything about the vaccine and to give your approval.

    They must now be considering changes to the original plan?

    Rapid roll-out of vaccine? Yes, but not in France....!

    in Health

    Posted

    As mentioned in Le Figaro today https://tinyurl.com/ybgqn4f5

    There are two cumulative factors explaining this relative delay:

    The centralised French health organization is poorly adapted to the limiting factors of the messenger RNA vaccine which require specific storage (-80 degrees) conditions and therefore the delivery needs very strict and planned deadlines, almost dose by dose. So it is necessary to establish the list of potential candidates for vaccination (residents and professionals), at the latest 5 days before the date of delivery, in order to be able to communicate to the the precise number of doses required and to ensure the necessary support services.

    There is apparently a new form of will.....

    in French Legal Issues

    Posted

    This is an EU law implemented by the EU countries. Most EU countries have decided to implement it. It will be up to them to make the changes it if they don't want UK law to take precedence over their succession law. There is nothing the UK can opt out of.

    They probably aren't too concerned though as the taxes continue to be paid according to the country of residence. It is just the inheritors can be different from a particular country. But each EU country have their own rules of succession rules and inheritance taxes.

    Even France has made several significant changes old Succession law based on the Napoleonic Code in the last hundred years or so.

    If a French person resident in the UK dies, they don't have any Brussels IV choice and their mobile assets would be taxed according to UK country laws. But the English/Welsh (I do not know the detail of Scottish inheritance) succession rules are more liberal and they would not have any constraints compared to French succession (and might even welcome the ability to leave an inheritance to even a fairly close relative which might otherwise be taxed punitively in France).

    Rapid roll-out of vaccine? Yes, but not in France....!

    in Health

    Posted

    There is an explanation here:

    https://www.lci.fr/sante/video-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemie-epidemie-pourquoi-la-campagne-de-vaccination-contre-le-coronavirus-est-plus-lente-en-france-2174078.html

    France is the only country informing each patient about the vaccine or to identify contraindications such as possible allergies and then getting written (or possibly oral) agreement.

    There also seem to be logistics problems regarding vaccine distribution - because of the French health strucure and also a need to make sure the low general level of the population will to be vaccinated does not get worse due to problem reports.

    Mayors in regions most affected are pushing for a faster rollout as their hospitals are already overwhelmed and know it could get even worse.

    https://www.europe1.fr/societe/campagne-de-vaccination-cest-bien-que-lon-naille-pas-plus-vite-estime-alain-fischer-4015107

    Spain is receiving 350,000 doses/week for the next two months and, as that is based on population, France should be receiving about 500,000 doses/week.

    The UK vaccination figures are updated weekly. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

    The UK will probably have given the same number of vaccinations by the end of December that France is planning for by the end of February.

    There was a defence council chaired by Emmanuel Macron this morning. I think changin the strategy would have been on the agenda given how slow the vaccination timetable is for France compared to other countries and the likely impact on excess deaths due to inaction?

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