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  1. If you're a CP (both Brits) living full time (domiciled) in France then you have to be prepared to forego all legal ,civic and social rights of a legally recognised partnersip. You also have to be prepared to pay 60% IHT on all your worldwide wide assets which may be substantial by the time one of you dies. You can not do a PACS in France nor can you divorce in the U.K to do a PACS. At the moment both married and PACSed couples in France benefit from 0% IHT and PACSed couples have been brought more and more in line with married couples so that there is very little difference between them, indeed LA HALDE the French discrimination body has ruled that pension rights must be similar and I'm sure more and more cases will brought to LA HALDE where there are still differences. IF you live full time here as CPs then you may also want to review everything else in you life since in French terms you are stangers and have no automtic rights as a couple. Unless you are willing to fight for you rights then yes you might as well sell up but accidents do happen in the meantime and eventually an IHT bill will fall on your mat and you will be asked to pay 60% IHT. 152,000 tax free allowance on life insurance with 20% on excess on a 60% IHT bill on eveything your partners owns in the whole world may not be enough (and in any case you pay for life insurance and as far as I know you have to pay the notaire to do it in France) and you may have to sell your home to pay fo the tax bill.  If you are interested in fighting for your rights then I suggest you email the following: [email protected] - english French Jean-François COPE [[email protected]] François Charles Bousquet [[email protected]] Bureau du Sénateur Richard Yung [[email protected]] [email protected] Alain Lamassoure [[email protected]] Alima Boumediene-Thiery [[email protected]] hussein bourgi [[email protected]] English MARZOCCHI Ottavio [[email protected]] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] VAN-DER-VEUR Dennis [[email protected]] [email protected] [email protected] BOWLES Sharon [[email protected]    
  2. Yes, a British life insurance which I guess won't have any tax signifcance to a French tax authority if you leave it your CP partner who in French terms is a mere stanger apart from when you actually want to perform the French equivalent of it. If you're not domiciled there then the British version of life insurance would be better as all of it would be tax free in the U.K and the French tax authorities would have no claim over non French assets. If you're domiciled in France and you have a lot of valuable assets there then I really don't know what the best solution would be to avoid a huge IHT for CP partners, with the increasing value of the euro and the huge increase in some house prices in some areas some people may find that their tax bill could be very large.  
  3. the only way  I know that you cam perform a civil partnership and a pacs together is if one of the partners is French, in that case the British partner does not have to supply a certificat de coutume and you can perform a pacs at the Frecnh embassy in london. If both of you are British and you have already done a civil partnership then you are stuck, the French demand that you supply them with a ceritifcat de coutume to prove that you are single (which you are not ) and unlik the French/British couple you also have to say that you reside in France to do the PACS. You should also be aware that if you become domiciled in France (ie you really have move there lock stock and barrel then even your life insurance will be part of the 60% IHT - IHT in France is on everythinh you own in the world not only your French property if you become domiciled there - the British!! life insurance is a good way only only if you don't become domiciled there and keep all other assets (apart from your French house of course) out of France.
  4. British CPs are not recognised in France despite the fact the the U.K recogises same sex French PACsed couples. Nor can you do a PACS in France since you have to prove you are single which you are not, nor can you get divorced in the U.K to do a PACS unless your relationship has broken down, which it hasn't since you are only wanting to do it for a PACS (which is the same thing in the U.K). A written declaration for mutual recognition of CP in the E.U has been set up by MEPS Sharon Bowles, liz lynne, and elpeth attwool , it needs to be signed by half of the euro meps by 15.1.09, the number of the declaration 0076/2008. If you look at the last posting on the following forum then you need to email these people to get them to sign to stop this discrimination http://riviera.angloinfo.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=119340 You can also email [email protected], [email protected] Both are campainging in France government levels, there are many other, look at the above forum and page backwards from the last page - there is a host of people you need to email to get things changed, otherwise you have no legal or civil rights of a couple in France and you have to pay 60% inheritance tax on all your worldwide assets if you become domiciled there (60% on French property if you don't become resident/domiciled) - French pacsed couples pay 0% iht.  
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