Sunday Driver

I bought my four year old Mercedes E Class from Germany. Prices in Germany and France were broadly comparable, but Holland was much more expensive. However, Germany offered a much wider choice of vehicles than France and I eventually found the exact model I was looking for at a small rural Mercedes dealer in South Germany.  They handled all the export formalities for me - export registration, transit plates, EU CoC - and although the age of the car only qualified it for a dealer used car warranty, when I explained this would be not much good to me here in France, they managed to blag Mercedes Benz Germany into agreeing a full pan-european factory warranty for me. Finally, because it was mid winter and my little Peugeot wasn't equipped with the obligatory winter tyres, I couldn't drive over there to view and collect the car.  No problem to them - they offered at no extra cost to truck the car across to Strasbourg where I met them off the TGV and drove the car home. My local Mercedes Truck Repair Centre handles all my servicing requirements (their hammers are bigger) and their labour rates are actually cheaper than my local town garageist. I'm a very happy punter........[;-)]  

[quote user="NormanH"][quote user="Sunday Driver"] This 8% that everyone is talking about is the means tested contribution towards couverture maladie universelle which only concerns people who do not otherwise qualify for state health insurance cover.  It doesn't apply to people in receipt of old age retirement pensions, either British or French.    AEs who retire are entitled to a pension on the same basis as that of a retired salaried employee so they remain affiliated to the régime general for their state health insurance.  Unless they take up residence abroad and choose to pay a voluntary contribution to maintain their French state health insurance rights, they do not pay any further 'healthcare' contributions. As regards Emily's case where she submitted her S1, this has no impact on her rights as as recipient of a French pension.  All it does is give the French social security a bonus in the form of a contribution from the foreign government which issued the S1. Finally, as regards all French people paying stoppages from their pension, the 7.5% mentioned earlier by idun refers to CSG.  This is not payable if the French pension is below a specific threshold (around 10K€ for a single person) or where the pensioner is not 'a la charge d'un régime obligatoire d'assurance maladie' - ie through a form S1.   [/quote] Not on her rights as a recipient of a French pension. But as the recipient of a French pension it is technically the French who pay for health cover, not the UK through a S1. In this case the retired person is in the same case as " a retired salaried employee so affiliated to the régime general for  state health insurance"  That could lead to liability to pay CSG , although not 'healthcare contributions'  But a she has already stated the French aren't insisting on this for obvious reasons...[:)] [/quote] There is no liability to CSG or CRDS where the pensioner is not 'a la charge d'un régime obligatoire français d'assurance maladie'. https://www.lassuranceretraite.fr/cs/Satellite/PUBPrincipale/Retraites/Paiement-Votre-Retraite/Prelevements-Sociaux?packedargs=null By exercising her entitlement to an S1 so as to have her French state health insurance paid for by the UK government, Emily has also exempted herself from having to pay CSG/CRDS on her pension income, both French and English. It's her legal right and the French can't insist on anything otherwise.......[;-)]  

This 8% that everyone is talking about is the means tested contribution towards couverture maladie universelle which only concerns people who do not otherwise qualify for state health insurance cover.  It doesn't apply to people in receipt of old age retirement pensions, either British or French.    AEs who retire are entitled to a pension on the same basis as that of a retired salaried employee so they remain affiliated to the régime general for their state health insurance.  Unless they take up residence abroad and choose to pay a voluntary contribution to maintain their French state health insurance rights, they do not pay any further 'healthcare' contributions. As regards Emily's case where she submitted her S1, this has no impact on her rights as as recipient of a French pension.  All it does is give the French social security a bonus in the form of a contribution from the foreign government which issued the S1. Finally, as regards all French people paying stoppages from their pension, the 7.5% mentioned earlier by idun refers to CSG.  This is not payable if the French pension is below a specific threshold (around 10K€ for a single person) or where the pensioner is not 'a la charge d'un régime obligatoire d'assurance maladie' - ie through a form S1.  

You are missing the important bit... ".........then you might be taken into the french health system........or not, if people are in the french health system they will pay the 8% mentioned and if they want will take top up insurance. Retirement age and an E121(S1) will be issued and you will be taken into the french health system and be exempt from the 8% mentioned and top up insurance if you want." That's was Eurotrash was querying about AnOther's comment that the 8% would become payable when they reach UK state retirement age.........[;-)]  

You make it sound as if no-one in France knows how to run a business......[8-)]  

We were too young for The Ship so we had to make do with the crappy little amusement arcade. Three darts in a playing card.....[:)] Years later, we bought an old static caravan on a site situated at the unused end of the runway at the old Boulmer airfield further up the coast.  The RAF air sea rescue were based at the other end of the runway and when the Sea Kings took off for their training flight, they would fly over the caravan site with the winchman hanging out the door waving at the kids playing below.  

My mother-in-law is not coming over this year for her annual holiday....  [:-))][:D][:D] Does that count as a drop in booking?  

I come from Newcastle and as a kid, we used to spend the summer holidays in a caravan at Newbiggin. So that's three of us so far - any more.....?    

PV = procès-verbal = fixed penalty ticket In general usage, a procès-verbal is a statement, report, minutes of a meeting, etc  

Documents relating to tax - four years.  The rest can keep your rabbit snug at night............[;-)]. http://www.net-iris.fr/veille-juridique/actualite/4796/la-duree-de-conservation-des-documents.php  

Google 'location costume de mariage'  

Mrs Sunday's recipe for pancakes: Usual Yorkshire pudding batter Small knob of butter in the pan (just enought to coat the base) Pour in sufficient batter just to cover the base of the pan (swirl it around). Thin is good. When one side is done, toss. Pick up pancake off the floor (oops, sorry, that's for when I try doing them) When the remaining side is done, serve up onto a plate, sprinkle with sugar and lots of lemon juice then roll then into a tube. Eat.  

Blimey, you're keen. Come back in a couple of months and you'll find a 26 page thread on here dealing with the subject.....[;-)]    

As continuous third party insurance is obligatory in France (and as now introduced in the UK) you'll find that insurance policies are only avaliable on a twelve months contract basis. Under the law, you are liable for any third party claims arising from the use of your vehicle, even unauthorised use as in the event your vehicle is stolen.  

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/01/03/516429-le-pv-electronique-l-amende-du-futur.html  

La France saisit la Commission européenne sur la généralisation de l’éthylotest anti-démarrage (EAD) http://www.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=4044    

First section of Norman's link:   Vous pouvez bénéficier d'un crédit d'impôt si vous effectuez, entre le 1.1.2005 et le 31.12.2012, des dépenses en faveur des économies d'énergie et du développement durable, dans votre habitation principale située en France, que vous en soyez propriétaire, locataire ou occupant à titre gratuit. TAUX DU CRÉDIT D'IMPÔT Sous réserve des précisions apportées ci-dessous, les dépenses réalisées au cours de l'année 2010 ouvrent droit au crédit d'impôt au taux de : 1 - 15 % pour les acquisitions : -      de chaudières à condensation ; -      de matériaux d'isolation thermique des parois vitrées, de volets isolants et de portes d'entrée donnant sur l'extérieur ;  

Check out your local agri distributor or ask at your gendarmerie for the nearest pont bascule.  

[quote user="Bob T"] After a couple of BMWs...... [/quote]   [:-))][:-))][:-))] [IMG]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w4/r850r/condor_r.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w4/r850r/s-clan-tartan-600-1.jpg[/IMG]   Oops......[:$]  

[quote user="frenchdc"] thanks for replies but just to clarify: I have received form s 3139c Demande d'accord prealable Prescription medical de transport from my GP as the journey is over 150km. what do I do with it?? Send volets 1 and 2 to your CPAM marked for the attention of M. le médecin conseil.  If you don't hear back from them within fifteen days, you can consider it approved.  when I see the specialist at the hospital I ask for a bon de transport ? is that form s 3138c prescription medicale de transport? Yes. fill in form s 3140 b ETAT DE FRAIS with all toll receipts and parking and attach to bon de transport. Send to cpam with my bank a/c details?? Yes. thanks in advance fdc [/quote]

We've had our De Dietrich boiler (central heating only) for seven years.  Fully automatic with an external temperature sensor.  Our plumber set everything up originally and he comes around every year to service the burner and drink my whisky.  Other than switching it off for the oil deliveries, we never have to touch it.  As per Nick, not the cheapest on the market but as it uses 30% less fuel than the old boiler, it's more than paid for itself .....[8-|]  

Ask at your mairie for the address of the centre des impôts which covers your commune then go and see them.  The 2012 tax declarations aren't due in yet, but they can explain the procedure in advance and give you the necessary forms to fill in.  

Your friend's friend can register the bike under a carte grise collection.  Instead of a certificate of conformity, he needs an attestation from the Fédération Française des Véhicules d'Epoque (FFVE). Immatriculation en série "Véhicule de collection"  

The two links posted above by parsnips relate to a Belgian business advice organisation so the information available there may not reflect the taxation position in France.    

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