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Thank you for your replies, that is very helpful. By way of clarification, my wife ran a french registered business for two fiscal years just prior to taking up permanent UK work in March 2007.  By the sounds of it, this would provide the proof you mentioned regarding permamnet residency.  The latter of those fiscal years is now about to end, so we are very clearly still existing within a French system and will in the new year receive the proof of payment of taxes and contributions as per previous years.  On that point, is there a definite period of time after leaving France to become permanent residents in a nother country which exempts us from French CGT? In response to another point, we do own a UK house where she has been living, but this was only purchases in April of this year. The VAT point sounds dreadful.  Would this be at the rate of 5.5% or 19% Thank you again for your advice.  Jack

Any advice with regard to our tax position would be gratefully received. We have lived in France for just under 4 years. We return to the UK in two weeks, wchich would means we have lived in France for 3 years and 51 weeks.. My wife has worked and lived in the UK since March 2007 and has been registered for tax in the UK as a result.  I have lived with our three kids in France throughout but have never been employed or earnt an income...just doing the renovation of our own property. Can anyone let us know whether we will be liable to French or UK capital gains tax when selling our French home and whether there are any ways of mitigating this liability perhaps through keeping it for a certain period of time? Happy to provide more information if that does help.   Many thanks for your help. Jack