EuroTrash

or manage it better. It has made the forum unusable. Will pop back in a few weeks and see if it's gone.

Best of luck with your plans, but as you say yourself, earning a living looks like being the challenge. I'm not sure exactly what a shop floor retail manager does, but smooth communication skills are usually part of being a manager. Ask yourself would it be possible for eg a French person recently arrived in England, not speaking much English and not familiar with English retail policy and legislation, products, customer expectations, local customs etc, to come straight in and do that job? Would that person be likely to be chosen above the other candidates for the job? IT could be easier to get a foot in the door, depending on what role you are looking for, but I'm not sure how transferable expertise in the education sector would be if that means schools. If you haven't already, why not start job searching on one of the online platforms eg indeed.fr to get an idea of what is available in your chosen area. As regards Brexit, it seems you've been following it closely yourselves so your guess is as good as anyone else's. At present it looks unlikely that freedom of movement will survive, and that being the case Brits will lose their automatic right to look for work in France after Brexit. Likewise if Brexit happens then if you aim to be exercising your FoM as workers at whatever cut-off point is decided on, word seems to be that you would need to have been established in France as a worker, ie with a job, for at least 3 months at that cut-off point.

If possible I suggest you are waiting outside his local tax office when they open on Monday morning so as to be first in the queue. They will answer all your questions.

Wooly, try that one on your French teacher or your GCSE examiner ;-) And why not argue that tu est and various other common alternative forms aren't wrong either. Seriously - I would say dropping the ne when the rules say it should be there, is colloquially acceptable but grammatically incorrect. So in a context where you should be grammatically correct, like a formal written communication or speech, it would be wrong. Papoting with your friends it is fine. But like everything the important thing is to know the rule, so that you break it from choice in appropriate situations, not from ignorance in inappropriate situations.

The rule is that you need ne + another bit. Usually the other bit is "pas". But there are certain specific constructions where it is ne +something else instead of the "pas". The most common are ne ... rien - nothing ne... jamais - never ne... personne - nobody ne... plus - no more However ne... toujours is not such a construction. So it would be "je ne comprends toujours pas" (I still don't understand) or "je ne comprends pas toujours" (I don't always understand). Does that help?

As said. Firstly there is the risk of you being taken advantage of. Secondly, "do a bit of work in exchange for rent" doesn't really fit with France's big emphasis on workers' rights because if they're doing a bit of work, what about their social security contributions, what about their healthcare? If they work for you that means you're an employer, and employers have obligations. And what about their tax, because France has a formula for declaring "payment in kind" eg for au pairs/caretakers etc who get accommodation and food in return for au pair/caretaking duties, and have to declare and potentially pay income tax on those benefits. They won't want to declare income they don't actually get in the bank and you won't want to meet employer obligations so you would all have to keep quiet about the arrangement, and having to keep things secret long term can get a bit stressful for all concerned. Particularly since if you live in France you seem to be forever having to tick boxes on forms to say whether you're a property owner or a tenant or if you're being accommodated for free and if so who by, whether you're working or not, what income you have, etc. Being a Brit living in France is a bit different from being a Brit living in the UK, especially with Brexit coming up. I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying, don't do it without understanding the situation and being aware of what rules you might be bending, and making sure that potential "tenants" are aware as well.

Sorry you haven't had more responses Danny, but fittersmate is the best advice - look for a gite that will give you a good long-off-season rate. Or try airbnb. I think the trouble at the moment is that those of us that live here are a bit socia-media'd out, what with trying to keep up with the gilets jaunes protests and Macron's half-assed proposals and all the social unrest and is there going to be another revolution, on the one hand, and Brexit on the other hand and what will happen and how that might affect us and our futures, and it's none of it very cheerful or positive, that we're not our usual happy helpful selves on the forums. But I hope you find somewhere lovely to stay and have a great holiday.

@BinB but Idun said " they also work from their french home for a UK company .... online. " - didn't mention dividend. That was the other thread. You could be right on that one, it wasn't clearly stated beyond "We have a UK-based company which provides the majority of our income" which as you say could mean dividend only.

https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=851&langId=en might help too, it gives a good explanation of the basic rule that you can't pay into the social security systems of two EU countries at the same time.

Yep, and further back still there was the haulage company that actually did have a base in the UK, but it got picked up because it had a French phone number on its website and it was proved that the wife had been taking bookings and doing admin work from the couple's home in France. For every case that gets picked up there must be many hundreds that don't but that is no consolation to the unlucky ones that end up with 100s of 1000s of euros fines or even in prison.

HMRC link below explains how tax and social security works for employees of a UK company who live and work abroad. As I think was mentioned in the other thread, the only cases where an employee living and working in another EU state continues to pay NICs in the UK is when the worker is a posted worker (ie temporary) or a frontalier (ie physically works in 2 or more EU states). In both these cases the employee must hold the relevant EU forms issued by the UK to prove that the arrangement has been approved by HMRC. Otherwise, they pay social security in the country where they live and work. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/paying-employees-working-abroad Employee working in another European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland Special rules apply for these employees. Usually, your employee pays social security contributions to the country they’re working in. However, they may have to continue paying UK NICs and will be exempt from paying contributions in the other countries where either: the work abroad is not expected to be for more than 24 months they normally work in 2 or more EEA countries If this is the case, apply to HMRC for a Portable Document A1 (or E101) for the employee so they can continue to pay UK NICs. This will also be evidence that no contributions are due in the other countries.

Well on the face of it, from what you've said, then as said in the other thread, this is irregular. Presumably their UK employer has never been informed that they're living in France/and or is completely unaware of the implications. Which wouldn't be surprising because as has been shown by the Brexit farce there is very little knowledge and understanding in the UK of how freedom of movement and social security coordination actually works. As for how it's policed/monitored, well it isn't as such, which is why no doubt there is a lot of abuse at present. When/if Brexit happens and Brits no longer have FoM, it will stop because sources of revenue etc will be clarified and checked at the visa stage; visa applicants have to explain what they intend to do in France and where their funds will come from, and the carte de séjour they are issued with clearly specifies whether they are or aren't allowed to work in France. But at present Brits are trusted to find out the rules and stick to them and have minimal paperwork checks so the only way it's likely to get picked up is via their tax return (unless they make an enemy locally who finds out what they're doing and decides to snitch them up to DIRECCTE which can happen but very rarely does). Presumably your friend declares it as foreign earned income taxed at source, so the fisc will assume she returns to the UK to work there, and will apply the DTA and simply invoice her for CSG. However if ever her tax return is chosen at random to be checked, that's probably the first thing they would ask about. It's unlikely she is failing to declare this income in France because I think most people are aware that if they live here they have to declare worldwide income here, but if this were to be the case, then apparently the fisc use algorithms to identify cases where the declared income doesn't match the lifestyle and that could flag up further investigation. Realistically your friend may well get away with it for ever. Unfortunately if she doesn't, then the fisc will also look back at previous years and the longer she's been paying tax and social security in the wrong country for, the more difficult and expensive it will be to disentangle and put right. PS There is nothing wrong with being paid a sterling salary into a UK bank account, as long everything is being declared properly and tax and sécu is being paid in the right place. The fact your friend is being paid in the UK doesn't in itself mean that there is any irregularity. But, it is very unusual for UK firms to agree to go down the route of paying French social security contributions because of the hassle and expense.

Quite right too, I can't see any excuse for not returning the cleaning fee. Seems a bit cheeky to charge it upfront, don't you usually pay that when you arrive or at the end of the holiday? Rotten luck, I do hope you have chance to fit in a holiday or a treat later in the year to make up.

I don't think you can. If you've started one application, you can't start another for the same vehicle until the first is either completed or annulled. And if you can't see it, you can't annul it.

As has been said, if there is a clause suspensive relating to refusal of a loan, in order to use this clause you do need to provide a satisfactory papertrail to show that you have applied for a loan and been refused. You can't just say "I asked several banks but they all said no". Every application results in a papertrail, the notaire will want to see this, and if the paperwork you give him shows that a decision is still pending he'll arrange to wait until that decision comes through. He's going to assume the buyer is in good faith and is still hoping to proceed so he's not going to cut them off high and dry with an application under consideration, just because a random deadline has arrived; because how would that be in either party's interests. Amending the dates in a contract is not a big deal. Terminating a contract is a bigger deal.