Ron Avery

[quote user="Jacqui Too "] [quote user="dennis"]Have just bought house near Fougeres (dept 35,  E,Brittany)  and have lots of scrap metal to dispose of...Dennis[/quote] I'm sorry that my post will not help you! but why oh why did you not put a clause in the contract that the owner was to remove all the rubbish! we did after having a good look round before we signed the first contract, he wanted the sale so agreed and ended up using 10 lorry loads, one large bonfire and 6 blokes! [/quote] Isn't a standard clause that the house and buildings must be empty?  We have heard on here where the previous owners have taken this to the Nth degree, removing doors, lighting cables, fixed fires, plugs etc  etc.  The OP should have a look  at their contract or ask the Notaire, they may well be able to make the seller get this stuff removed at his cost.

Thanks for the replies I have now downloaded it, I like the tabs with options of new or duplicate and it has retained the old IE6 tool bar with File/Edi/Favourites/ Tools etc so now I get a choice of two buttons.  On the French version there were a lot of optional extras that I did not select like silverscreen? and various toolbars, but that would not download perhaps because the old version was in English, however the UK version works OK but did not offer any extra stuff or toolbars. So far it has not caused any problems to any sites, but I note there is a compatability button next to the refresh button that might cure the LF Forum small button problem?

[quote user="bigears"] Nice post Ron, hard hitting as ever. [/quote] As Noddy keeps telling you, you reap what you sow.  School hols again???

I see through MSN that IE 8 is now available, anyone tried it?  I couldn't get on with IE7 too many things I use like Find and tools hidden away for my liking and History being mixed up with favourites, so am I going to like IE 8 better?

I would be more worried about what the French tax people think about why you have started declaring tax in France after 8 years of not having done so, but from your previous posts on here you think that they are stupid don't you?  However, you mighty be able to duck and dive as is your want but there is a real risk that unless your employment circumstances in the UK have changed and your actual residency they might just ask for tax back for the last 8 years and you end up being taxed in both countries,  What sweet justice that would be[:D]  Like your optimism about selling your house in two years time though.[kiss]

"The finance "expert" on the "Connexion" newspaper has, I seem to remember, published an answer to someone in your situation ,saying (I think) that if you have it paid into a UK bank you don't need to declare it here."" Despite the fact that French tax law says that if you are resident in France you have to declare your world wide income.[:-))] No doubt this is the same expert who gave people dodgy advice about how to declare their UK taxed pensions and totally confused not only them but himself.  Is this bloke cheap, on some sort of medication or just deranged?

From the days of the great CMU kick out, and unless its changed in the meantime I think the English speaking help line is operated by one department's CPAM in Britanny or Normandy and can only assist with specifics relating to that department. They can give general advice on rules but not cases outside of their area.  I know people who have arranged to phoned them from their CPAMs to assist in translation and interpretation issues but unless you are in their area, they will not be able to tell you when your CV is coming in other cepartments.

You only need to bother about this if you clean out the bowl/tank.  Take out the fish and keep them in the water from the tank, clean  out the tank, fill it up with tap water, leave for a hour or so to get to the same temperature as that where the fish are, put the fish back in.  Voila

My pension is paid gross in euros as are most private pensions and that is declared in France,  However, if you have a "service pension" taxed in the UK, that is paid net to you,  you do need to gross it up for the 2047 form.  The applicable  exchange rate can be found here  http://www.x-rates.com/cgi-bin/hlookup.cgi

Deb I was only using "Harry from Halifax" as an example, not citing your bloke in particular, this was just an example to question if somebody using the AE scheme and not having to pay private health care premiums might not be any better off if they have to pay employment based insurances, which for work such as roofing can be very expensive. Your situation needs expert advice and consideration, at the moment you are legally covered as a family under an E121 but if you are covered by an IB based E 121 that may well change as IB is replaced by the Employment Support Allowance. You should get advice from CPAM as to what your status would be regarding dependency should you work under an AE as that may complicate your situation considerably, but be careful as your possible situation of one parent under an E121 the other working is not a usual occurence in France and you might get conflicting answers.  I don't know anyone who is that situation but there might be someone on here who is and so can advise. To answer your last point, whether in the UK or France, check both the registration/Siret and the insurance.  If someone you employ is not insured (and you knew that to be the case) and falls off your roof it might turn out to be you who pays for any medical treatment, assuming that he survives!! 

Linking to another thread, if you are doing  "property maintenance" work eg roof repairs,  don't you have to be insured which would nullify any cost savings from obtaining health care through the AE route?  Its my understanding that a lot of builders do not do roof work as the insurance premiums are so high.  What would happen handyman Harry from Halifax fixing slates in the Charente falls off your roof?  Would you be liable for any injuries if he was not properly insured for such work?

Mr D the info you want is in a PM just sent. HTH

[quote user="teapot"] Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus, different orbits, a bit like the M25 and the Peripherique, only we didn't ask for directions [:D] It was a vague question from a Mens perspective, are you going clockwise or anti clockwise round the Peripherique? it makes a huge difference. That said Sundays is usually quiet. [/quote] Except when PSG or Stade Francais are at home or there is a trade fair or an accident or its raining or road works.

[quote user="Cathy"] Ron - This is a perfectly decent question, asking about road conditions on a festival day. Post edited by the moderators, as it was found to breach the forum code of conduct. [/quote] Well that is your opinion and I have posted mine.  However, our concensus is its hit and miss and you don't know anymore than anyone else would.  So the point of your post was to tell the OP who is travelling on Sunday that Good Friday is not a bank holiday?

No sorry only done it at 4-30 pm on Boxing day, if it had not rained and there had not been two accidents it would have been just like driving round Toulouse but different.[blink].  Seriously, how can anybody answer this question and what relevance is anyone else's experiences?  Traffic conditions on the perepherique change by the minute.[8-)] If you have a problem with driving round Paris or think you might, go via Rouen and use the A28 to Calais.............. or let your husband drive[:-))].

I thought you asked what they do now??.  A gin soaked dummy used to work for my six kids[Www]  Not that they needed much enticement to sleep after a day up the chimneys[:P] Getting back to the topic, The Mirror lambasted the mother for not going to court with her sons, maybe that is why they were in a foster home in the first place????

It must have  a recent CT to be re-registered so as they will have to re-register it, it must have a recent CT.  Its not exactly the earth at around 50€ for a new CT and for peace of mind?.

[quote user="hakunamatata"]Thats the same medication I used for my son - not every night you understand!  What do they do now for babies who scream most of the night for no reason?  .[/quote]   Put them on the naughty step and take away their Nintendos?[:D]

Not a problem Allen, my method is totally legal, honest and as usual for me above reproach.  I really do not know where this new poster gets off telling people who have been here for years how to calculate their income "so as to not to mislead newbies", I suggest he or she goes back a few years of April/May postings of this Forum and sees the amount of patient help given by people posting here to newbies including one who has posted on this thread, on compiling tax returns before uttering rubbish about integrity.  My method?  Pension is paid direct in euros, so no problem there although I could in theory claim for the cost of the transfer. Savings, what is left of them is paid monthly in £s and the rate at the month end date that I would have received in euros noted.  If that is not an open and honest way to declare income I don't know what is!!  Using the end of year rate as some French tax offices suggest for my return is not appropriate for such income and would understate it, that cannot be honest or right,[blink] so I prefer to declare a more accurate figure.

Not seen anything about out of contract cards no longer working.  As you can get all the free to air stuff like Ch4 and 5 with an out of contract card or a freesat card why should you not be able to continue to do so?  Surely these new cards are only of interest to those who subscribe to SKY through a UK address?    Anton, Tim where are you???

"I have spoken with our local TAX office in France and they have confirmed we can work here and pay tax in the UK" Given that you say your French is not that good and as French tax offices are notorious for giving opinions and not checking facts,  I would certainly check out that statement. Did they fully understand that you would be doing work in France?  Doesn't sound right at all.  The danger is if its wrong you might end up getting taxed twice! There are one or two qualified electricians on here who will tell you the hoops you have to jump through, but as your O/H is a qualified electrician he will not find the French wiring difficult, just different.[:D] 

Yes, what may be an horrific story but so far based on "an investigation" by the BBC at one home out of hundreds that found 10 women out of thousands who may or may not have been given drugs 25 years ago.  At present its all based on the word of one woman who has children who have problems not related to each other's and then "possibly" linked by one chemist to the drugs that she may or may not have been prescribed. Didn't the BBC also uncover a children's home on Jersey where hundreds of children had been abused, tortured and even murdered???. 

[quote user="woolybanana"]Last year, my tax office refused to accept a monthly exchange rate calculation for monthly investment income as they only recognize annual payments so I had to use their rate of 31th December, which had been fixed by Paris.[/quote] You pay tax WB?  I thought you had all the pickle millions stashed away in a banana republic[:D][:P].  Coops and Allen are spot on about the rate to use,  its really not hard to note the rate that you got is it?  If anyone who gets regular income rrom the UK wants to use the Connexions figure go ahead, I know who will pay more tax and its not us who will use the actual rate received.[:-))]

I was going to say not another doom and gloom UK press correspondent on here, but heh ho lets all worry about the poor and deprived in the UK and not what is happening in France like mothers being killed by their sons for being too religeous.  Anyway, to get Clarks point about the BBC report in perspective, lets add a few more words eh? "As for the second case, the BBC report that allegedly 10 girls out of hundreds that had stayed in one particular children's home (and thousands of others who had been in care in the 1980's), where they were allegedly given large cocktails of tranquillising drugs to control their behaviour, have had children with birth "abnormalities" which are not detailed any further.  Of course the odds of this happening anyway and the medical histories of these children is not detailed as it might spoil a good yarn. Bit like the cancer yarn on Newsnight, "70 % of adults in the UK are not changing their lifestyles to avoid cancer, apart from stopping smoking" but  in the small print this was a survey of 1002 people out of 60 odd million in the UK!!!![:-))].  Motto for BBC News editors, if news is in short supply, make it up.[:P]

"the taxes are based on valeur locative as you well know"." [:-))][8-)]?????  Why do you say that, do you know him then?  If he "knows it" then why say something different???  He is certainly right about the jealousy though!! The point I want him to clarify is the bit on their website about deductions for the over 60s.  This is an old chestnut often raised on here, quoting from English language newspapers that quite frankly are not worth wrapping fish in, and UK based "French" property agents estate agents who are as equally ignorant of the rules.