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    in Finding/Owning French Property

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    I think you will find that you are responsible even if you are not aware of the problem, unless it's something that should have easily been spotted by the purchaser , if he had bothered to look.

    That's why the vendor can include a clause in the sale contract denying responsibility for any VC!

    See

    http://www.vices-caches.com/vendeur-comment-vous-proteger.html

    More Capital Gains Tax

    in French Finance

    Posted

    So it looks as though the Government will be further increasing the CGT.

    From 2014 if you make a gain of more than 100,000 they will increase the tax by 3%, if it's more than 150,000 then the increase will be 5%

    19%+5%+Charges it all adds up, or should that be all takes off!

    Amending bookings with Brittany Ferries

    in Travelling to/from France

    Posted

    I think BF have moved to a more active, probably automated form of yield pricing since the start of October. This all happened when they abolished the short period cheap returns.A return ticket is now always the equivalent of two separate singles.

    Previously fares changed erratically and infrequently. Now they changes quite regularly.

    I had been planning our December/January trip for quite a while and had seen prices increase by £30 on the UK/French leg. I decided to book a single yesterday morning, and was just about to enter CC details when the door-bell rang. By the time I remembered to continue the booking, I had to restart and the price had increased by another £30. Grrrr

    I think this £30*2 on the outward is what has affected the original poster.

    Any changes to times or dates mean that you are now treated as a new booking at current prices with a credit for the old crossing.

    Still quite generous compared to the airlines.

    More generally it's good to see that some of the crossings have virtually sold out of cabins. There must still be some life left in the western channel market!

    Circuit for electric radiators

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    Reply from Zibro's website.

    La loi en application depuis le 4 juillet 2009 impose que toute installation contenant un liquide réfrigérant doit être effectué par un technicien accrédité. Un installateur agréé est qualifié pour souder des raccords hermétiques et est conforme à toutes les exigences en matière de technique, d'environnement et de sécurité. Les techniciens agréés sont aussi équipés des bons outils (pompe à vide, poste à souder, manomètres, et détecteurs de fuites) pour installer et faire fonctionner un climatiseur. Ils ont aussi les connaissances qui peuvent s'avérer utiles pour le perçage du béton, le transport vertical, l'alimentation électrique, etc. Les modèles muraux dotés d'une connexion rapide Parker peuvent être installés en grande partie par l'utilisateur car les conduites où se trouve le liquide réfrigérant sont déjà hermétiquement fermées.

    Orange....Again !!!

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    I can't see any objection to this facility, as long as you are given the choice of opting in or out.

    BT has the same thing with their Home Hubs.If you opt in You are given free access to FON wifi spots world-wide, and BT wifi spots in the UK.

    As my wifi barely covers the house, never mind the garden I can't see the point of objecting!

    I don't think you are required to open the gates and allow people to park on the lawn so that they can pick up the signal......

    Filter for Broadband

    in French Satellite TV, French Internet and Telephone

    Posted

    You don't need a VOIP service with this package. The included phone calls come the old fashioned way through the ordinary phone.

    My Optimale Internet chugs along quite nicely at 18mb using an old unlocked BT branded wifi router. It's quite amusing that BT replaced it with a Homehub because their software upgrade woudn't work, unlike the "pirate" download which freed it up to work in France. As this particular model was available on Ebay for around £5 I bought another one as a spare. Works out cheaper thyan 3 Euros a month for a Livebox whose VOIP services aren't required.

    PS You of course do need a filter not Another's adaptor, because of the live ordinary phone. I suspect Another may have a package with no traditional phone.

    New Central Heating Boiler

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    Does it have to be Qualigaz? There are several other gas companies eg Butagaz Totalgaz Antargaz etc

    Qualigaz are the organisation who are responsible for checking and certifying ALL gas installations, think CORGI as being a similar UK body. They are not a gas supplier.

    www.qualigaz.com/

    Qualigaz est un organisme de contrôle continûment agréé par arrêtés ministériels depuis le 1er décembre 1992, dans le cadre du contrôle des installations

    VAT TVA

    in House Renovations

    Posted

    Whenever purchases of materials are made, whether by a registered trader, or by an individual VAT is charged at the full rate.

    When an Artisan carries out qualifying work he charges VAT at the lower rate on the total job,materials, labour and profit, but is able to reclaim the VAT he paid when he purchased the goods.
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