Allen

Thank you for your advise. We do live in France, each year we fill in a form for our healthcare and we are in the CMU base but we do not pay cotisations as our earnings are too low but we do pay a prelevement sociale to the tax office which is about 15.5% of the 29% of our earnings. The assurance maladie put us in the the CMU base which is different to just the CMU which is for people on benefits so we assume that this is correct... It is just we are rather worried as we have heard that once you are registered with a siret number the charges you have to pay are very high and as we only earn well under the €23k per year and we pay all our other taxes whether we will be able to afford to stay here.

Hi, After filling in our tax from and delivering to our local tax office (Charente-Maritime 17) at the end of May, last week we received a letter from them which basically is saying that we need to get a Siret number even though we only have a gite and earn less than €23k, but it is more than 50% of our income. Have been trying to find out why as we have been doing it for 10 years - the tax office just say 'they (whoever they are!) have started at the coast and have now instructed our local tax office that everybody needs to register their gites with a siret number. When we stated that we earned less than €23k per year and should still be on the 'non-professionnel' regime she insisted that no matter what circumstances everyone had to register at the C of C and she would not back down from this. Can anyone clairfy this situation? Also if we disagree with it who do we approach. Would be grateful for any advise.