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If it pre-filled it is something carried over from claims for earlier years and these is nothing further to carry forward for this year. You might have to go back to earlier years to discover the source of the credit.

This is still in the notes (51) Ce crédit d’impôt s’applique sur les revenus du patrimoine, d’activité ou de remplacement de source étrangère, dès lors que la convention internationale conclue entre la France et le pays à l’origine du revenu prévoit celui-ci en vue d’éviter une double imposition. I've never seen that credit in my declaration. I think you must have declared something differently between the two years with a figure in a different box or an income one year you didn't have in the other. Have you done the comparison of your declarations, as I suggested?

First, have you compared your declarations for the two years to see if you have made any obvious mistake? As I understand it, the Crédit d'impôt sur rev. étrangers calculation is - (Impôt sur les revenus soumis au barème) x (Revenus et plus-values étrangers imposables au barème en France) / (Revenu imposable)

I think you need to read it more carefully and understand the different types of British nationality and sorts of British citizen https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality and https://www.gov.uk/check-british-citizenship Regarding visas, the article you quoted does not mention they will be needed for British Nationals but does mention children/spouses/etc. as they may have a different sort of citizenship. Returning from the EU UK nationals’ children and existing close family members (including spouses, partners, parents and grandparents) who are moving to the UK from the EU, after the UK has left the EU, will be able to do so without the need for a visa until 29 March 2022. Those moving to the UK after 29 March 2022 will need to apply for a visa. Other dependent family members and future spouses of UK nationals (where the relationship was established with the UK national after the UK has left the EU) who are returning to the UK from the EU, after the UK has left the EU, will be able to do so without the need for a visa until 31 December 2020. Those moving to the UK after 31 December 2020 will need to apply for a visa.

Various other banks, e.g. HSBC and Lloyds have an app to photograph the front and back of cheques and then make a payment. But they have a limit on the size of the amount of an individual cheque (£500 ?) and the total daily amount (£750 ?) I've used it for the occasional sterling cheque receive in France.

The article mentions "entièrement remboursé" par l'Assurance maladie rather than "free". Does that mean if you give the laboratory your Carte Vitale you will not be charged or does it mean you still have to pay 54€ and are given a form to claim it back? It is also unclear how it works if you use one of those in the new list of those now allowed to take a sample.

It is your tax office which decides whether or not you are subject to the reduced rate of Prelevement de Solidarite. You should already be declaring you hold the an S1 through your tax declaration so you get the reduced rate on all your investment income. The tax office will know as they can check your Ameli status.

It would have been an E106 not S1 in 2003. If you scroll down this page https://tinyurl.com/y9hg5r5h (it is from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content you will eventually come to the standardised English version of the E106 form for use by any European country. But it is dated 2006 as it is the version which replaced an earlier version. I suspect the earlier version was similar.

As I understand the French inheritance of property, there would be no French inheritance tax to pay if she formalised a civil partnership as long as she wrote a new will. The old one would be revoked automatically by the change of status.

With the death of a couple of friends in the last few months (not coronavirus-related), and with the changes which could occur from 1 Jan 2021, it seemed a good time to do a review of our inheritance, finances, etc. That included revising the document for our children to help them in understand our finances not only in the case of our deaths but also in case of long-term care. As part of that analysis I reviewed our incomings/outgoings. I did those in sterling and in euro given the possible exchange rate variation a lot next year. We have a second home in England (probably worth 2-3x the our French house) but half the size. When we paid taxe habitation and taxe foncière it was approx the same figure in euro as we pay in council tax; now we only pay half for the taxe foncière alone We have two cars and the insurance is a lot higher in France than in the UK, but does include breakdown cover I can't compare house/contents insurance as the properties are so different but I suspect they are similar for similar properties. I calculated electricity/gas/water would be same figure in euro in sterling. Other living expenses are probably similar although food is more expensive in France, but possibly somewhat better quality. No one has mentioned mutuelle health insurance csots which, by the time you reach retirement age can be quite significant. And there is the possibility of Impôt sur la fortune immobilière (IFI), which replaced Impôt de solidarité sur la fortune (ISF) for some. After a couple of inheritances were added to our savings we were paying ISF for several years. The charge, which came to well over 25% of our pension incomes, was getting to the point where we did contemplate moving back to England. There has been discussion of a return to a wealth tax (and for a flat tax) in France, for everyone from 0€, as solidarity. And a wealth tax in the UK is also now being talked about (but excluding pensions and main home).

Most of the historical data weather sites don't include lightning as is localised and usually only a brief event. They also only have data for the weather stations around the country rather than specific towns. However, this web site might help: https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/foudre.php?archive=1®ion=fr

Yes, you can claim for 2017. As long as you do so before the end of this year. It's the last year you can claim for before they changed the social charges from 1 Jan 2019.

There are over 100 reviews/comments and over 200 questions/answers on Amazon UK https://tinyurl.com/yc6uwa6w although some refer to other Huawei models.

You are correct. I was thinking of the price change when I bought books which are zero VAT in the UK and 5.5% VAT in France. There are other items with different VAT rates as well but I don't know of a comprehensive table listing the rates. The main German VAT rate is 19% but is reducing to 16% of 1 July to 31 December 2020.

You need to give examples to be able to understand the differences. Were both for delivery to a French address? If you order on Amazon UK for delivery to France the price will change to account for the different VAT rates. Some companies don't reach the minimum overall annual sales level to foreign countries so I think they can still charge their local rate. Books on Amazon UK are cheaper than on Amazon France since there is no resale price maintenance which limits French sellers to a maximum 5% discount. Amazon prices across Europe are not the same for all countries and there are price comparison web sites to help determine the cheapest.

Even if it was allowed today who knows what the regulations might be in a week or month's time. There could be a "second wave".

Most of the design work is done in Sweden but from https://inter.ikea.com/en/inter-ikea-group/ikea-industry/ this is for wooden furniture IKEA Industry consists of 43 production units in 9 countries: China, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, and the USA. We have around 20,000 co-workers. Our top five production countries are Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Portugal and Sweden. Stainless, china, etc items come from Vietnam, Malaysia, India and other countries. Kitchen ovens, dishwashers, etc are mostly made by Whirlpool

The link below should help otherwise elsewhere on edilians.com https://edilians.com/media/productattach/documentation-pv-13-huguenot.pdf

That is the official EU web site so the information should be correct. What conflicting information have you found? From an EU country or from Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, may I enter or exit this country for tourism? YES From: 15-06-2020 No compulsory quarantine for travellers from the EU, associated Schengen countries or the UK, except if the country of origin requires travellers from France to quarantine (reciprocity principle). Voluntary quarantine for travellers coming from Spain by plane and travellers coming from the United Kingdom. Quarantine is mandatory when travelling to French overseas territories. May I enter this country without being subject to a mandatory quarantine? YES, WITH LIMITATION From: 19-05-2020 Third-country nationals coming from outside the EU and associated Schengen countries are subject to quarantine, even if they are asymptomatic. The quarantine is voluntary for travellers coming from Spain by plane and for travellers coming from the United Kingdom. The quarantine is mandatory when travelling to overseas territories. Travellers showing symptoms of Covid-19 infection during border health checks should be subject to quarantine or isolation, regardless their nationality.

There was an article in The Guardian today mentioning the UK had not joined the new EU app and website. That service provides travellers with real-time information about coronavirus rules and the status of infections in each European country. It gives the current status of travel for other countries, which transport you can use, whether you can transit, need for quarantine, etc. https://reopen.europa.eu/en

I don't know if it is still the same but some time ago when I was purchasing a large modular wardrobe the carcass was a more expensive in France than in the UK but the components to fit inside were cheaper than in the UK. Overall for what I bought there was little difference in price. At the time I put it down to the usual extra cost/distance for transport in France of large/heavy items. I wonder whether the price difference is now down to the exchange rate. IKEA set a rate at the time of their catalogues and there have been sizeable swings since late last summer. I see there is now a new general IKEA France catalogue but, presumably since they've been closed, they've yet to release a UK version.

[quote user="mint"]Pomme, interesting as all that is, I can't see myself measuring the temperature of the water and waiting over an hour (or whatever time the article says) before preparing my toast soldiers and finally sitting down for breakfast. [/quote] It is much simpler if you have a sous vide water heating stick - usually cheapest from Aldi/Lidl at least once a year. We also have a vacuum sealer and mostly use them for perfect rare beef/duck. There is a link to the soft-poached egg recipe which says " Cook until outer whites are just set, about 1 minute. Retrieve eggs with the perforated spoon and serve immediately. Alternatively, eggs can be stored in cold water in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. To reheat, place eggs in a bowl of hot water for a few minutes until warm."

This is an interesting article on eggs cooked at different temperatures and the best for a runny yolk and firm white https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/10/sous-vide-101-all-about-eggs.html

This is a good article Taxation of Pension Lump-Sums in France which describes the various options for taxation in the UK and in France https://www.french-property.com/news/tax_france/lump_sum_pension_payments/ If you are taking a large sum out and paying into a UK bank the bank may want additional information on the source of the funds under the money-laundering regulations and the same may happen when funds are transferred to your French bank The only concern would be if this is a personal pension plan rather than an employer-run scheme and the plan has not been declared on tax form 3916. A personal plan which you can vary the amounts put in and taken out, etc is a savings plan so should be declared. The fines for non-declaration can be significant https://tinyurl.com/ybokn6xc

As the car is just a computer with wheels on it probably stores distance travelled in km and the display is just an arithmetic conversion. So when the car is plugged in for a service the correct distance will show. I had my car serviced in the UK and I had to tell them the reading was in km as they wanted to give it a full service as they assumed the figure was miles.