Debra

Just to update this to say you can't offset the loss against the gain if you're a private individual - only if you're a business. That was a bit annoying, to say the least!

Does anyone know how this works if you have both a loss and a gain in the same tax year when selling property?I know that normally if a gain has been made the notaire deducts plus value tax and social charges from the sale proceeds. What happens if the gain you've made is a lot less than the loss you made on another sale in the same tax year? Can one be offset against the other and if so can the notaire allow that no tax is due on the second sale because of the prior loss or is it a matter of them taking the tax and charges anyway and the seller having to claim them back from the impots?

What international law on asylum? There is no such rule in law. This thread is a bit sickening really. Why do certain people keep referring to 'illegal immigrants' rather than 'asylum seekers' or 'refugees'? Quite a high percentage of those who have made it across to the UK in boats were genuine refugees and were given asylum. The UK has stopped them going any other way. There should be a proper centre for people to go to and seek asylum but instead, all the ideas seem to be about preventing them from trying.

Or get a second hand one off leboncoin.fr for a couple of hundred euros and you can always sell it on again on the same site afterwards.

I have a friend who works on the ferries and he says it's been mad in the last few days with the number of small boats crossing. I reckon the Daily Mail article has worked like an advert!

I'll keep popping in then. I miss this kind of forum format and though there are lots of useful groups on Facebook I don't feel they are as useful as forums like this at all. Really hard to search on stuff so you get far too many repeats of the same questions, for instance. Google searches still bring up useful info on this forum and it would be a real shame if it disappeared. So yes, let's use it and not lose it.

I'm still around and have popped in a few times but usually to find nobody has posted for a long time so I was surprised to see this thread - is it asking how many are still using the forum or how many have survived this dreadful year?! So sorry to hear about Sunday Driver having passed. I've often wondered where he was and whether he would pop back up on a forum or if he'd migrated to Facebook or something. My condolences, Caroline - and thanks for updating us. Are there plans to close the forum? That would be sad.

Yes and if she gets her Irish Passport to prove that she is still an EU Citizen after brexit, if she is exercising treaty rights that would mean you could also retain freedom of  movement as her family member.  I recommend that those with an EU Citizen spouse apply for their carte de sejour UE/EEE/SUISSE as a family member for this reason and still before the cut off date because it still acts as proof that you were here before the exit day and so will have rights under the withdrawal agreement, if it's ratified. It may seem like it's not necessary to get one now (though you will need one later) if your spouse is an EU Citizen who is exercising treaty rights but getting one to prove your rights under the withdrawal agreement means you get the guarantees re social security, healthcare and pensions as well as the improved up to 5 year right of return without loss of permanent residence rights.

British Citizenship can be acquired in the following ways: lex soli: By birth in the UK or a qualified British Overseas Territory to a parent who is a British citizen at the time of the birth, or to a parent who is settled in the UK or that Overseas Territorylex sanguinis: By birth abroad, which constitutes "by descent" if one of the parents is a British citizen otherwise than by descent (for example by birth, adoption, registration or naturalisation in the UK). British citizenship by descent is only transferable to one generation down from the parent who is a British citizen otherwise than by descent, if the child is born abroad.By naturalisationBy registrationBy adoptionSo for my son's kids to be British he either needs to reproduce with a British woman who was born in Britain or ship the mother of his children off to the UK or an Overseas Territory to give birth. It sounds like it gets very complicated for people born before 1 January 1983.

A lot changed with the British Nationality Act 1981, which took effect in January 1983.  Wikipedia has the history of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationality_law

[quote user="NormanH"][quote user="Chancer"]Debra.   That was the first reasoned justification I have seen for applying for a C.D.S. and makes complete sense. [/quote]  I have renewed it twice; the first time was for its convenience as a card I could carry which was understood by the French anywhere, and this second time very simply because it short circuits all the Business of having to produce documents and justifications that will be needed for any new system that is put in place. [/quote]Exactly.  All we should need at renewal is proof of continuity of residence.  Some prefectures accept avis d'impots for the duration of the previous card alone.  Some require a utility bill per semester to prove you've lived here since that card was issued.  A lot less than I needed to get the card in the first place.  Plus the criminality check - which I think my prefecture already does as it's one of those who require fingerprints (if not they could easily do it from what they already have).

Re AnOther's comment about my situation not being common: there are actually quite a lot of people who can't use their latest five years here as their qualifying period for permanent residence rights.  In my case it was because when I separated from my ex I had a drastic drop in income for a while (unluckily, my tenant gave notice the month after he went back to the UK, so that added to the usual problems of separating).  After five years, income as an EU Citizen is irrelevant - but to get your permanent residence rights recognised you have to prove that for five qualifying years, you had the right level of income or were working or a student (with limits as to how long you can be unemployed and still retain the right to stay). Some people have had a period of unemployment which is longer than is allowed under EU freedom of movement rules and need to use an earlier period because of that.  Quite a lot of pensioners may be affected because the UK state pension isn't a high enough income to be legally resident ( apparently there are a quite a lot of people who only have that as their income) once they are over age 65.  So they could have come here with enough income under age 65 but that was no longer enough once they were over 65 (more income needed over age 65 as an EU Citizen in France because ASPA, the income support for those over 65, is higher than RSA, the income support for people under age 65).  So there may be a lot of people who have to do what I did and prove a 5 year period from years ago and then prove continuity of residence since then - and if they don't get a card, keep storing up that continuity of residence documentation just in case they are asked to prove their rights - not just those who had a  marriage breakdown that affected their financial situation.

One of the things some campaigners are hoping for is to continue as we do now and not have a cds but only have to prove our right to stay by 'other means' as and when necessary.  In my view that is impractical because everyone will end up in my position with the ever growing folder - the wheelbarrow method.  This is because even those who only need to provide the latest five years' documentation to prove their rights under the withdrawal agreement will then have to add to that file every six months with ongoing documentation to keep up the continuity of residence proof after brexit.  Much easier for all concerned to just insist that we will need a carte de sejour.

See this document on page 9 for the originally published question and answer (I'd copy and paste it but I seem to lose all the formatting when I do that) : https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/2017-12-12_qa_citizens_rights.pdf

AnOther not all of us would be landlocked anyway if the agreement that has been made so far is all that is agreed.  It's those of us who are not working and are self sufficient who could be landlocked but even then, only with regards to moving to live permanently in another EU member state.  We'd still have rights to visit for up to 3 months accorded to us via our EU permanent resident status. The Q&A answer to that question on the Europa site has been amended since it was first published, when it answered in great detail about the rights we could have as third country nationals.  Apparently British in Europe requested this change because they felt that to start talking about third country national rules in relation to us was premature and might panic people (or maybe they thought it would remove the momentum to argue for total freedom of movement for us?).  I actually thought it would be helpful to a lot of people (just not me and others who aren't working or students :) ).