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Are they not referring to foreign earnings and pensions received in France? Be interesting to learn whether 'certain pensions' included my wife's government pension!

I appreciate that makes good sense Clair, and most occasions when I go to your links and I am duly rewarded. On this occasion, however, I found the whole thing very difficult to follow. Probably more a reflection on me rather than you though:)

We are of course all very grateful for the contributions from Clair our Moderator. However, Clair regularly posts links to complicated and obsure French sites, when there equally good, if not better, reference sites in English. This is the case here, where I can think of a number of sites (IFP, FE etc) where there is a lot of useful information on this subject. Come on Clair, if you are being told to keep other Anglophone sites off the LF pages, we do think you ought to come clean about it. I wonder if this post will be published? If not, I think it proves my point.

We are of course all very grateful for the contributions from Clair our Moderator. However, Clair regularly posts links to complicated and obsure French sites, when there equally good, if not better, reference sites in English. This is the case here, where I can think of a number of sites (IFP, FE etc) where there is a lot of useful information on this subject. Come on Clair, if you are being told to keep other Anglophone sites off the LF pages, we do think you ought to come clean about it.

Well our mairie have finally come back to me as they knew nothing about this themselves. It seems that a change is in the wind, and that the exemption we have had in the past is going to be removed, at least for that part of the accommodation we occupy ourselves. I have no idea how much that will cost us but we are considering all moving into the back room:)

We pay nothing as the local mairie has allowed us to claim exemption, although I believe we do not pay tax d'habitation because our income is low. I cannot be fully sure of the rules. I have tried speaking to the mairie this afternoon, but they are not open.

I received my regular IFP newsletter today, from which it seems we are about to start having to pay local rates!   http://www.french-property.com/newsletter/2008/3/18/chambres-d-hotes/   I have e mailed IFP to try and get more information on it but so far no response.   Can anyone else help?