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  1. Hi. sorry to be a pain again. But there's just one box I don't understand. It's the bit where it's a tick-box for Personne Physique or Personne Moral. Thank you!
  2. Thanks very much for the reply. It's got me a long way towards completing it. Much appreciated!
  3. I know it's a basic question, but I'm selling my old French car here in the UK and my French is very poor. Has anyone got a scan of a COMPLETED declaration, - to give me a hint of what to write where? Sorry for the stupid question. But I'm rather stuck here.
  4. [quote user="Will"]If you are not married or in a legal partnership (PACS) you are taxed individually in France. If you are married or PACSd though you have to declare your worldwide income in France, i.e. UK + French income (remember to declare the UK income as tax having already been paid). The resulting household income is likely to take you into a higher tax bracket in France, so there will be more tax payable than would have been due solely on the French resident spouse's income. Because in UK you are taxed individually, your spouse's income in France is of no interest to the tax authorities there so you don't need to declare it in England, just the UK employment income.[/quote] Thank you for this information. I'm about to go down the AE route and am really pleased to find out that I will be taxed as an individual. Thank heaven we never married!
  5. What if you're not married and one of you is resident in the UK and earns their income solely in the UK. Whilst the other is making, say, 15,000 euros and is in France for 200+ days a year?
  6. No problem Lulu. Let me know if I can be of any help. And if you want to pop in - you're welcome! Want to buy a 3/4 renovated house near La Roche Bernard ? !!!
  7. Thanks very much, - both of you. Perhaps they haven't finished upgrading everything yet, then. But, at the moment, I can still use my landline phone for incoming and outgoing calls. However, my voip phone has changed it's CID from the old 09... number to my landline number. I thought it had ALL happened yesterday. Maybe only part of it had. I wouldn't bother with the additional fee to keep the landline. It seems a lot to pay to just deal with the odd possible loss of livebox usage. Much cheaper to use my gymsim mobile to deal with problems of that sort. Great advice. Thanks.  
  8. One other question: Can anyone recommend a good sat dish to purchase? Are they all, essentially, the same?
  9. [quote user="Quillan"][quote user="Howie"][quote user="Quillan"]Yes[/quote] Sorry, Quillan. What was the 'yes' in response to? [/quote] It plugs in to the SCART socket and works OK with an English TV. Just a couple of things. Having checked with Orange I can confirm what Danny said, theres 2 different box's for TV. One for satellite use, the other for Internet only TV. I questioned this because the instructions for my box shows the option of having a dish if your line speed is not quick enough. Perhaps they print the same manual for both box's although thats not very well explained in the manual. That takes me to the next subject of TV via Internet. Technically, according to Orange tech support its possible with only 1mb but the picture will be very, very jumpy so they will only allow it with 8mb or more. I don't know about the practicality of this but its what their tech support guy has said. Getting higher speed is down to your local Marie and what they are willing to pay for i.e. are they willing to pay for the road from the exchange to be dug up and a better cable or a fibre optic cable to be laid. Again this is what the tech support guy has just told me. I asked how somebody can get hold of a LiveBox 2 if they have an old type box. If you rent you can take your old box, with original packaging, cables etc to any Orange shop and pay 19 Euros and they will give you a new one (type 2). Finally, I have just changed to the new 34.90 package via the website, plus the extra 3 Euros for renting a LiveBox. Thats going to save me a few bob even though unlike my old tariff the number of hours not used for mobiles does not accumulate but thats not a problem for me personally and it covers all the countries I would consider calling for no charge. Thats going to save me about 12 Euros per month, better than a kick in the crutch s they say. [/quote] Ahh, thank you (scart info) . Yep. I've just done the same deal. Very pleased. And my line speed has already been increased to my max here (8mb). They took a 49 euro equipment deposit from me (they are sending me a decoder). But I was also given a code for the return of the livebox, - in order to get the new version. He said I would get my 49 euros back (I'm not sure why) when I take my livebox in to an orange store and exchange it for a new one. He said there was no charge to do the exchange. The other thing is that you lose the ability to dial out on your normal phone line. (I hadn't realised this). But the number still works for people dialling in, - so you need to keep a phone plugged in. Also, the VOIP phone now identifies itself as your landline number to anyone you call.
  10. [quote user="Jane and Danny"]Quillan, It is Orange who decide if the line can support TV or not and they will send a different decoder in case of either TV by sat or TV by ADSL. From the nature of the question by Howie and his other thread, I assume the Orange rep must have told Howie that it will be TV by Sat. Danny PS Howie, are you sure that you would get 8MB ? On your other thread, (if I have the offer right) the offer Net Plus is actually up to 20 MB [/quote] Hi again. Yes Orange have just told me that 8mb is not enough. Sorry, not sure where that 20mb came from? But,yes, they are now doing some sort of software update in order that I will receive 8mb, - which, apparently, is now my line speed capability.
  11. Oh. - and .. Does the Orange TV decoder plug into a scart socket? (ie, will it work with a UK TV)? Thanks so much to everyone for their help with this.
  12. [quote user="Jane and Danny"]If you mean me Ernie, I didn't mention the decoder..... As you say, the decoder is supplied by Orange. I was just talking about everything else whch is not supplied by Orange. Just to clarify for anyone else.... Orange TV is only available to Orange internet subscribers. If your ADSL connection is fast enough (minimum around about 8 MB) you can get it via the ADSL. There is no need for satellite. If your ASDL connection is not fast enough, then Orange TV is offered by satellite. You need a dish set up already - correctly pointing to one of three satellites. In both cases, Orange supply a decoder which needs to be connected to the livebox. Channels vary depending on whether it is by Satellite or ADSL. Danny [/quote] Actually, I have an 8mb connection and it's not fast enough. Still need the sat dish. However, Orange do provide the decoder free and give you 50 euro refund on any dish you buy (just send them the receipt). Anyone know if I will need a TV license? I don't have terrestrial TV here.
  13. I'm thinking of doing this. Has anyone here done the same? If so, is it easy and have you got any recommendations of a supplier for the equipment? (I'm in S.W.Brittany) Thank you!
  14. Just to let everyone know. From today, if you're a new customer or out of your first year's contract. Orange.fr are doing an all inclusive broadband, phone & TV deal for a total of 37 euros. It includes: Line rental. Up to 8mb broadband. Orange TV (you need to install a sat dish for this, of course). Livebox VOIP phone WITH FREE ANYTIME EUROPEAN CALLS. Nothing else to pay. I've just chaged my existing deal. And at the same time, the english call centre guy discovered that my line speed can be increased from 0.5mb to 8mb. I was amazed that they do that automatically as your local exchange is upgraded. But they don't. Whatever you 'sign up for' originally is what you get, - until YOU ask them to increase it. Bit annoying because I signed up for their minimum (2mb), - but at the time my fasted local line speed was 0.5mb. So that's what they've restricted it to ever since. Hope this is useful to someone. Howie.
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