Viki

Hello! I have read with great interest the pros and cons of running gites against B&Bs.  However, I would be very grateful if you could answer a question regarding registering as a company and paying taxes. If you are running a gite - living in an alternative property, would you be required to register as a company ie with the chambre de commerce.  Also, what about declaring and paying taxes on the earnings/profit?  Do you have to have an accountant, or can you file your own tax returns and if so when and how?  Is there an amount that you can earn before you have to pay taxes - can you point me in the right direction to get more information??? Thank you in advance for your help Kind regards and Happy New Year Viki  

Hi There I have just found this forum and after several months of reading books about relocating to France, there are still a few questions that my books don't appear to be answering. We are moving to Normandy in the next few months (fingers crossed the sale of our house goes through!) and have a place to live at my parents house.  Our plan is to find a house, fairly close to theirs, to rent out as a holiday home.  I ruled out long lets! Although I can see there are a lot of legal requirements with long term lets, the books /articles I have read do not have anything about holiday lets. Are there any legal requirements associated with this? Your help is greatly appreciated!