tigerfeet Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 does a form need to be filled in to start getting these bills ?moved to france in 2006 , filled in income tax forms this year and have had contributions sociales bill .thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tj Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 HiHabitation tax is generated by your tax return, also includes your TV licence fee, just received ours a few days ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derf Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 [quote user="tj"]HiHabitation tax is generated by your tax return, also includes your TV licence fee, just received ours a few days ago [/quote]I don't think that is right, otherwise all non residents for tax purposes would never get theirs[:D]. It just comes along following the normal buying a property process, sometimes it can take a while for it to filter through the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex H Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 How can it be generated by a tax return?If I have a maison secondaire, do I not pay habitation tax? (UK resident) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tj Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 HiI dont know how the holiday homers go on with theirs, which is kind of irrelevent to your question..But when you put in your tax return, it asked where you were living on the first of Jan 2007, and this is the basis of your habitation tax demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenniswitch Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 [quote user="Tandem_Pilot"]How can it be generated by a tax return?If I have a maison secondaire, do I not pay habitation tax? (UK resident)[/quote]Normally, when you purchase your maison secondaire the notaire notifies the authorities so that the taxes(Habitation and Foncieres) are transferred from the seller to the buyer.That assumes that the maison secondaire is habitable.In our case, we have not been assessed the T de H because the house has been under extensive renovation. We have been told by our sous-maire that we should notify the mairie when the renovation is complete and we move our furniture into the maison secondaire. He says the mairie will take care of notifying the taxing authorities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex H Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Thanks for that tenniswitch. Our house was inhabited before we bought it, but in the 3 years since we purchased, we have only had fonciere demands.Perhaps I should tell the authorities [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiona Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 We purchased our holiday home in November 2005. Visited Tax Office in June 2006 - NOT ON COMPUTER with shrug of shoulders! French friends advised we would not be forgotten!!! Visited again last week and were told that a bill had been sent to Scotland ( I told them I hadn't received one). No, of course not because "we are sending it on 31st October !!!!!!!!!!!) I enquired if this account was for 2006 and 2007 (another shrug of the shoulders!!!) I will await the account which I probably won't understand so will post here for translation - PLEASE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nectarine Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 We've owned a holiday home in the Creuse for 11 years and always paid both tax hab. and fonciere. My understanding is that the notaire automatically informs the local mairie and taxes office, as we received both bills fairly promptly after picking up the keys!The TV licence is included in the tax d'hab. but every year we receive a letter asking if we have a telly - we don't and reply accordingly. then a few weeks later comes the tax d'hab bill but without any mention of a television charge. I think that if you get a tax d'hab. bill and there is a television payment, and you don't have one, then you have to inform the authority and get them to remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerfeet Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 Went to a local `tresor public` today and they said the bill had been sent to my last address in the UK ..... thanks to those who mentioned this happens.Paid both today , tax fonciere had gone down 323e was 425e last year (previous owner paid part last year) , tax habitation 185e.Not bad 508e total , £350 compared with £1,400 council tax in the UK , the difference can go towards private health care , maybe I can stay here [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philouis Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Is it a fact that if you are ovr 75 and income is below a minimum, one is not liable to pay the tax fonciere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I'm sure I've read something like this on here. What appears to happen though, is that you get a dispensation, if appropriate, on the back of your annual tax return. I'm sure there's a thread about this around.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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