Taxes - foncieres, habitation and capital gains!

[samurray]

My understanding of tax paid when you sell a house is that improvements you have made are taken into consideration based on artisan's invoices but if you do the work yourself then the materials + twice their total is allowed. Our French neighbour confused me when we were over there as he said now only artisan's bills are taken into account, not work you have done yourself but he was relating this to his taxe d'habitation, fonciere, not to tax due when selling. Any enlightenment please?

[Mazan]

>Our French neighbour confused me
>when we were over there
>as he said now only
>artisan's bills are taken into
>account, not work you have
>done yourself but he was
>relating this to his taxe
>d'habitation, fonciere, not to tax
>due when selling.

There are no deductions to the taxe d'hab or fonciere for work carried out on the property. These deductions are on CGT and income tax, the latter being only for major work and work tending to save energy and only applies to work carried out by a professional. For CGT DIY is OK.