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Hello On a slightly different note, can anyone confirm the amount you may have to pay to the previous owner of a house if you sell in under 2 years and have made a substantial profit.  I would like to know the percentage you have to make in order for this clause to come into play and the percentage of the profit you then have to pay to the previous owner. Thanks

  This states it just has to be done, doesn't state you have to have someone do it and provide a certificate. 

  I understood too that it is a requirement for 'some' insurance companies (i.e. not a statutory requirement), ours have confired it is not a requirement for them. 

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Hi Well I'm no expert but I can't see that you can be employed by a someone as a salaried employee without them having to pay NI equivalent in France if you are expecting to pay NI equivalent yourself.  I guess my question is, are you stating your self as employed or self employed, it makes a big difference.  Someone posted a couple of weeks back about their employer not being prepared to pay the high level of cotistations required as an employer in France.  Your problem is that if you are still recognised as an employee in the UK being anything else in France would be hard to pass off. For my own part I am self employed as a contractor in similar circumstances and pay about the same in cotisations and tax together as I did in the UK.  The UK government actually refused the tax I paid there in year one and returned it all to me, even though I was orignially recognised as a remote employee.  I am now set up as a micro-bic, invoice my various contracts gross and pay tax and cotisations myself here.  It's all confusing isn't it! Panda

Hello Just to add a point, installing sky is very straightforward and if you have a box already then there is lots of info available regarding where to point the dish etc.  We have moved a number of times and have only once had to call in someone to 'line it up', the problem that time was line of sight so postion of the dish is important. I would advise having a go yourself first, what have you got to lose, that way if it works great, if not call someone in, you may save a few hundred euro's! Panda

Hi Crudler You also don't mention how you will be paying tax in France, are you to become an independent (self employed) worker, if not surely your company would now have to agree to pay French employers NI which is VERY high and something most employers refuse to do not just for cost reasons but there is the admin involved. What are your plans on that front? Panda

[quote user="Clair"] 16 000 euros pour un couple marié [/quote]   Does this mean the poster who got only 25% rebate declared only a single person on the  tax return  as they state 'we' but only got applied an 8k euro's ceiling?

Hi Sorry to hear of your lost, my vet advised me the last time I tool my 18 year old cat that I need not have her vaccinated as she was old and rarely left the house, he did say cats did begin to have side affects from the vaccines later in life and that after all these years she would have built up enough immunity not to need most of the jabs..  I did have the rabies jab but only in case of an emergency meaning she would have to enter a cattery.  The other jabs I left.  My dog also was up to date on vaccines and lived to 16 so it would seem she was not affected.  I think that perhaps it's a sad coincidence, particularly bearing in mind the things they developed. I hope you can remember all the good times with your beloved pets and perhaps think about  giving other pets the same privileged life that I'm sure your pets have had, we have recently done that and it's wonderful to think you've freed a cat or dog from the kennels or worse. Panda  

Owen could you not give an opinion on the original question about a convertable top up/full, seems a very good question and one you are well placed to answer judging by your signature .

Hello Glad to hear it, if you are allowed can you give some details (name of business, where she operates etc.) some of us on here might be able to give her some work! Panda

[quote user="ErnieY"] I think many may secretly miss a good number of the things you list but one thing puzzled me a tad; "the easy of travel to other counties with our motorhome" from the IoM....????? Where could be easier than France for that ? [/quote] You seemed to have missed the 'things I will miss line' as in things they will miss in France Ernie, so they agree it IS easy to travel with the motorhome from France.

Hello I too was shocked by my own feelings, I was driving alone in France about 6 months after moving here with a random CD playing and Land of Hope and Glory boomed out and I started to cry.  It's weird as I, like you, never thought I felt that strongly about being away from the UK.   I'm not sure how I would react to the same scenario now, 3.5 years on, it would depend on my current mood, some days I long to be in England, others I walk the dogs and think how lucky I am to be here! Panda

Hello As others have said this has been covered before, I am in a similar position but chose to set up as self employed as a contractor.  In this way the employer pays you an agreed gross figure from which you then pay your tax and social contributions, again covered many times but for me it works out that I pay the same now in tax (very low) and social charges as I did with the combo of tax and NI in the UK. So it's not as scary as it seems made out to be, I've done this for 4 years without issue.  Panda

Hi All I could not agree more and the Phoenix Association are based in the Dordogne so would be easy for you to get to.   Take a look on their site http://www.phoenixasso.com/adoption.php3 they have some new puppies! Here is my new baby rescued from them last week: [IMG]http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc149/ahoward99/DSCF1052.jpg[/IMG] The dog I bought over to France: [IMG]http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc149/ahoward99/DSCF1056.jpg[/IMG] They now get on well: [IMG]http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc149/ahoward99/DSCF1059.jpg[/IMG]  

Blimey Give it a break, how dull is this thread and each time I look in it to see if anything worth reading has been entered and any posts by anyone other than Frenchie. 

A little late but my LiveBox does this on occasion and going through the 192. etc. and rekeying the login and password for connection to the interent ususally sorts it out.  The 'fault' is caused by the user validation according to FT, the livebox is not being given access and so I now know that if my @ light is flashing I have to log on to the router  192.1.1 etc log on as admin etc as explained by Danny) and then re-validate my login for connection to the internet (usually starts (ft1/ or something along those lines).  I've had to do this on occasion for the telephone connection too which occasionally disaperars (as in the light on the livebox of a handset disapear  

Someone keep Llwyncelyn busy whilst I type this please.. Hello Not wishing to resurrect the dead but want to ask Barbel, have you found a place with a lake or did you give up on that idea?  We took a bridging loan (pret relais) when we bought and sold recently, it was cheap, interest rate was the standard variable rate and it was easy to arrange.  You can have the loan for up to a year, might be worth it if you have really found your dream home.  Panda

Hello It happened when we bought recently, the seller was told to come back to the notaires office and collect the cheque in a weeks time.  I thought it really odd at the time as when I sold we were handed a cheque.  I think it can depend on things like clearing any debts (mortgages, bridging loans etc) but if he has none of these I can't imagine what reason they are giving for holding on to the money unless the funds from the buyer have not cleared. Panda

Hello Not sure if this could help, either as a place to buy of somewhere to rent (mobile home) that has kennels: http://www.businessesforsale.com/Kennels-And-Holiday-Home-Business-For-Sale.aspx  

Hello I was hoping you would respond Christine, I was just about to check the tattoo and take a picture when, having called the local huntsmen, who had in the meantime found the owner, the owner then turned up and the dogs were so happy to see them.  I was so surprised as I thought they must have been abandoned, they were clearly working dogs but I was so pleased that the owners seemd to love them an vice versa, not the usual shut up in a yard hunting dogs.  Apparently the adult has done it before but this time it took the new puppy with it, the pup had walked about 4 miles, poor little thing no wonder it was starving and soo tired.  The owner had only had the pup for 3 days! So all's well that ends well as they say, it has got us thinking about getting another dog though!  Thanks for the response, Panda    

Hi Not sure if anyone can help but this morning I found a puppy and an adult dog, the adult has a collar with a number (perhaps an identity number)  the puppy is unmarked.  Who should I contact to trace the owners, I've tried the neighbours but no one knows them or has seen them before.  I don't want to call the gendarmes if they are likely to be put down if no one comes forward so what should I do.  For now I have fed them (they were both starving) and tied up the adult to stop him eating the chickens, the cat etc.  my other dog seems not to interested which is good. Panda

Hi Pps You will be glad to know the sun is still shining here.. not long now! Panda  

Great photos John. I found a very tiny type of mouse in the garden yesterday but it hopped (rather that ran) and it had really huge back feet when compared to his front, bit like a gerbil, I've got no picture.   I could easily catch it which worried me so I quickly put it out of the cat, dogs and chickens way, what m ight it have been? Loads of stag beetles about this year, is it a bumper year, do they like this damp summer? Panda

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