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[quote user="gpnoel"]For Cooperlola and Antonia: sorry I have only just picked up on these posts and did not reply sooner.
I am far from being an expert, but my understanding is that early retirement occupational pensions (received before UK State pension age is reached) are only subject to the 0.5% Contribution Social Generalisée on the gross figure received; certainly this is what I have been charged for the last five years - (and I suspect is what you also have paid from your comments, Cooperlola).
My recollection is that this reduced level of CSG for such pensions was the result of a case taken to the European Court - with which Sunday Driver (and perhaps Parsnips) was/were involved. However, I cannot support my recollection with any documentation, because when my previous hard disk "died", I lost lots of references/articles which I had bookmarked and can no longer quote "chapter and verse". However, I am sure Sunday Driver/Parsnips could confirm.
[/quote]Yes, Noel, this has always been my understanding too (and we have indeed been charged/paid 0.5% since our arrival. However, I read and re-read SD's post and the tax instruction in his link and still I don't know what is the correct thing to do - carry on as per or put our income in the TV box. I am rubbish at this stuff in English - let alone French. I really am a bit worried about this. I could cough up the amount but it's a lot (it nearly doubles the contribution to CMU doesn't it?) OK, I owe the health system a lot here but that is a lot to pay if it's wrong. It does seem odd that I appear to be one of very few people whom this affects - maybe I'm just relatively rich?Sunday, Parsnips - are you out there? Which is correct? Pretty please.
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I am the fat bat with the red mobility scooter with Club Arnage stickers on the back.[:)] Oh, and the car in my Avatar will be around somewhere.
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That is interesting Derf and Sid. I've been reading lots of fora asking about how one does this on Humax boxes since they don't have DVD drives (or at least not the ones I've looked at) and there was very little info. So anyway - you transfer to a USB stick, put it on your computer, then transfer it to disc? I thought there was some sort of memory limit for this making it impossible to make discs of long programmes in HD as the files were too big. Is that right or wrong? I'm more than capable of having got the wrong end of the stick where technology is concerned!
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So good they named it twice![:D]
Seriously, you are too kind. Found the bloke quite by accident (the recommendee, that is, not Norman!)
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[quote user="Antonia"]FWIW Cooperlola I'm in the same position as you and read it the same way. [/quote]Great, thanks. Just one person on the same wavelength makes me feel a little less daft! Thanks for that.[:)] I guess I've been getting away with this for years so it's a fair cop, as it were.
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It's obviously me - it took me four years to realise that "Active Topics" even existed! [:-))] The home page of the forum is, afaik, a list of the various boards. Plus, I'd be a bit embarassed to ask a question before exhausting the FAQs on any forum/help site, if I were expecting people to give up their spare time to help me. Still, clearly I'm a bit weird so maybe the mods could alter it if that's what stopping people from finding readily available info' which people have put a great deal of effort into producing?
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1. If I "tune in" to a website, I usually look at the FAQs before asking a question. Isn't this normal?
2. Newbies looking for tax advice surely look for it on the Finance board, don't they? Where else would they look?
3. I'd expect Tax FAQs to include filling in a tax form, but clearly those are not the kind of questions which newbies think are asked frequently about tax!
4. The last update date (as it were) is right at the top!
I'm not saying you're wrong in your assumptions, BaF, but it's not rocket science to find the thread if you care to look for it is it(that being the rub, n'est-ce pas?)
Mods : Maybe we should take some of BaF's points on board, as clearly it's still not obvious that the info' is there and readily available and easy to understand.
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If you have no luck then let me know. Our local little motel has a good room and I can ask them if it's booked. A little north of where you were aiming for but not too far off the motorway (30 mins or so). But Tours is probably better for a short stop/sightseeing etc. Lovely town - I wouldn't do more than wander around it for the day, or drive up the river a bit.
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Patronising and offhand responses apart (now, would I?), given that Sunday Driver put so much work and effort into the TAX FAQ'S at the top of this board, I do try to point new posters in that direction. It has even been updated to reflect most of the changes (except the new one about the collection of social charges) and I think would have dealt with all the points raised by our latest questioner.
Is it that people don't see the FAQs or that they don't trust them, or what?
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Am I the only person on the forum to whom this new procedure applies? I have to go ahead as the deadline is nearly here but I'd love to know if anybody reckons I'm right or wrong as 6%-odd of our income is a chunk of money to find in one hit so I need to start saving if I've got this right. I'm pretty sure but a second opinion would be good.
Anybody?
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[quote user="Mr Ceour de Lion II"]Maybe they don't have a tv or licence there?
[/quote]I don't know if this applies to FBW as I'm not clear as to whether s/he's to be based at a private house, but surely if you are receiving broadcasts via the net then you still have to buy a license don't you? Just curious. -
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Before I do this then, can I run this by you please?
Our pensions are from the UK, we are in CMU and we paid more than 61 euros last year, I put the full amount of our pensions in box 8TV in Section V111 on the pink form then transfer it to the (extended version of the) blue. We will pay 6.6% of our pension amount in CSG. Right or wrong?
Also, I'm assuming that they'll want this all in one hit in Jan 2013 along with the CRDS payment. Right?
[/quote]Sorry to repeat this but before I file my return I just wondered if anybody (Sunday?) could confirm that I'm correct? -
Tell me about it. A couple of weeks ago an external hard drive packed up. It just would not power up, even when I used another transformer from a different unit of exactly the same type. I tried everything, even visited the company's forum on which several people reported a similar problem. Neither the company nor the retailer knew what might be wrong, and both were sceptical of my ability to rescue the 1.7tb of data (movies) I'd painstakingly saved to it.
Today, just before I had decided to go into LM and take it to the computer specialist to lift the data, I plugged it in again and - you guessed it - it worked![:-))]
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You need a Proxy Server. Many seem to use Expatshield which is free. Onspeed (which you pay for but which is not so plagued with ads) is a paid for service which I use (Quillan recommended it) to good effect.
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[quote user="5-element"]
There is no change for my husband, who will continue to have his own S1. So in effect, as far as social contributions go, we will have to be taxed separately. I don't know how "they" will work that one out, given that we have a joint return.
Please someone tell me I am right, it took me ages for the change to percolate????
[/quote]I think that if you put just your income in VIII/8T,Q,V,Wor X - depending upon which is correct for you - then the social charges should be correct. -
I am not on an S1. I am one of those evil people[;-)] who won from our campaign and who pays 8% of their income in cotis to CMU-B. It will be another couple of years before Mr C is old enough to get paid for by the UK.
Does 6.6 sound right to you, N?
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Before I do this then, can I run this by you please?
Our pensions are from the UK, we are in CMU and we paid more than 61 euros last year, I put the full amount of our pensions in box 8TV in Section V111 on the pink form then transfer it to the blue. We will pay 6.6% of our pension amount in CSG. Right or wrong?
Also, I'm assuming that they'll want this all in one hit in Jan 2013 along with the CRDS payment. Right?
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Eureka! Left the thing off for a couple of days. Unscrewed the aerial terminals from both inputs - I noticed also that one of the little nuts was very loose. It's now working normally. Whether it's the aerial connector which caused the fault (it doesn't seem to want to tune in the 2nd satelite unless you do the other one first) I don't know but I do suspect it as it is the thing that has changed.
Thanks for the research etc as per, Martin.[:)]
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Campanile's accessible rooms are very good, imho. The motel style nature of the places (don't know if they are ALL like that?) means you can park your car outside your room too. Great.
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Problem solved! £20 and ten minutes later, installed THIS and went from one blob to five. Smashing.[:)]
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I own a Panasonic DMR-XS350EB twin Freesat tuner/recorder. Last night, whilst it was merrily recording a programme I had set up in the EPG on one chanel, I tried to access the other feed (twin cables input from a quad LNB) and it came up with the above message. This morning I was hoping that it was just a problem on one feed but when the Morning Line came on the red flashing warning light came on and the same message was now showing on both channels.
I tried a re-tune and there was no satelite found on either feed. I then grabbed a baby digi-box from downstairs and linked one of the feeds onto it. It works perfectly - all chanels are there.
I assume that the Freesat tuners in the Panasonic box have died but it does seem a bit odd that both have gone at the same time. Before I condem the thing to the scrap heap, has anybody any idea as to what might be the problem and, preferably, how to solve it? I've currently got it switched off in the hope that it might reboot but I'm not holding out a lot of hope. Sadly, they don't seem to make these things any more and the only alternatives are the Humax style products which don't seem to allow you to archive onto disc/hard drive so are not of much use to me.
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You're welcome. A little taster:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97986095@N00/sets/72157624486903796/
and those are just the track shots from Plateau 4 (of 6) two years ago.
Lots more eras etc on my photostream if that whets your apetite.
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But of course, everybody knows that San Seriffe is an island group.....
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A bit like asking people what colour top you should buy Sweets, wasn't it?[:D]
Changes to the collection of social charges on foreign earned income and pensions
in French Finance
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I am not going mad then. Thanks.
Oh, and what is simple to you is a murky pond to the innumerate (is that a word?) amongst us!![:D]
EDIT : I must say that I'm quite surprised at the muted reaction to this on the forum - I can only imagine that everybody has been paying URSSAF as they should have been up until now, or they're all on very low incomes (imho, 15.2k isn't that much for a couple, pensioners or not.)