mrmulliner

Thanks for your advice. Trust me, I'm in no danger of the wealth tax! And I'll look into leaving it in England 'til we're ready-might make things easier.   Thanks again, Mr Mulliner

I hope somebody can help me with this question. I intend to sell my English home and move to France with the equity.As I understand this, I will not be liable for CGT in Britain because it is the sale of my principal residence. Once I get to France, I will rent for a while and look for a property. In this gap between selling my English property and reinvesting the equity in a French one (and I have no idea exactly how long that will take), will I be liable for further tax on my equity/savings which will be sitting in a savings account in France? I have a fear that the fisc will see it as income and tax accordingly.   I hope somebody can help me with this query, I've looked on the boards and have not found anything that matches my situation.   Mr Mulliner

for opalienne - yeah i know it sounds dodgy put that way -when i used to do the job and people asked what i did and i said 'money laundering', id always get the same remark "har har, yes ive got some drug money, can you launder it for me!". anti-ml. check this link out. theyve only been doing it a short while-theres the cert and the diploma. http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=slv1-wave&p=%22diploma+in+anti-money+laundering%22  

thanks again to everybody for all the advice. ive just found out that ive got a bit more money to go towards potential house so thats good news. but i certainly dont expect to run into anything blindly. working in money laundering-to be honest thats not something id even thought of-i just imagined doing something fairly menial-but i do have a diploma in that which is possibly transferable-worth looking into! my budget may seem small and probably will grow with experience of what everything will actually cost-but 3000 euro seems a lot to me. thats probably because we get by on very little at the moment here in england because we have deliberately overpaid on our mortgage for a long time (probably the reason why we're lucky enough to even be thinking about making this move at our relatively tender age of late-twenties). for the person who criticised my punctuation-i didnt find that helpful and it was not the sort of advice that i requested. i teach a-level english in a school with the best results in the city in this subject, so communication and my native language is certainly not a weak point-obviously my register is flexible enough to take into account my audience and 'forum' (if you'll excuse the pun!). i also found it interesting considering the amount of typos in your own posting. attend to the beam in thine own eye....   thanks again to everybody who took the time to give me information. i shall keep watching the boards for more info!  

thanks to everyone who got back to me. it was 10k a year btw (5k each-partner and myself) and my degree is in french and english. thanks for comments. it's something i really want to do, but i certainly wont do it until i know as much as possible where i stand. merry christmas and happy new year to everyone.  

hi nick-thanks so much for responding! yes i definitely need the non-rose-tinted-glasses view. so can i clarify that even without working my partner and i would have to pay more than 5000 euros in tax each? bloomin' eck-what tax is that? and that it would be difficult, even in the big cities, to get jobs paying 5000 euros each, even if we were happy to do absolutely anything? i didnt realise the situation was as dire as that, to be honest. i need to change the colour of my glasses    ps we wouldnt intend working for ourselves    

hello there, i am newbie making their first post. i wanted people's views on my prospects of finding a job. at the end of this academic year my contract will come to an end at the school at which i teach. me and OH are considering this to be the prime time to make the move we have dreamt of. however, im very aware of the employment situation in france and that is the one thing that concerns me. so if i lay out the stats-maybe one (or more!) of you nice people can tell me what my (our) chances are. me-6 years working for large english bank in money laundering. 2 years teaching french to GCSE. OH-middle manager for international charity-learning french and probably at about a-level standard and advancing quickly. we would only need approx 9600 euros between both of us per year (food and billls as house bought outright) we plan to move to a big city or v nearby and will do anything to earn our keep, but would obviously prefer if i could teach in some way. OH is aware he may not get a job for a long time due to non-transferable skills and limited french. so, what do you reckon?