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NormanH

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  1. They take the gross amount that you have paid tax on in the UK and calculate how much tax you would have paid if it had been paid in France.
    As French income tax is lower than British you have normally paid more tax than you would have paid here.

    The difference is then given back to you as a credit.

    In the past you didn't get it all back, they gave just enough so that you paid 0 tax.

    Now it seems that they give it all back so you can actually have a credit.

    It is worked out in detail on my Avis.

    There is 1 part way I can see the credit I have against my home help, and another part where I see the credit against the tax I have paid in the UK.

    They are then added together to give me a total refund

  2. Having looked at my 'Avis' which I didn't have available for my first post it looks as if I was right and they are now paying the full 'credit''on income  already taxed in the UK whereas before they cut it off at Zero so there was no money actually paid back..

  3. It's not quite the same thing, but as from last year I started to get back the rebate for the person who helps me at home. In the past it could take you down to zero, but you didn't actually get any money back.

    Perhaps they are doing the same thing when they do the calculation of how much tax you would have paid if it had all been paid in France.

    This always works out less than you have actually paid  in the UK, and perhaps that is now being given as a rebate, not just taking you down to zero
    This it's only a suggestion I have no concrete knowledge

  4. Gorgeous music..I have one caveat...she tends to  start a little under the note in the longer value notes)  then glide up onto it  rather than starting in tune and making a crescendo .. This is a modern technique from jazz singers that I find mannered in this music..

    compare with

    at about 8minutes 30

    or this one at 6 minutes 50

    Even Schwartzkopf whom I don't associate with this music avoids that error

    about 6minutes 30..

  5. You may find that a local Emmaus would take some of it that could be useful

    I don't know that area, but here the local Mairie will also take away

    objets encombrants...ask  them.

    Les

    encombrants correspondent aux déchets qui, du fait de leur poids et de

    leur volume, ne sont pas pris en charge par le service de collecte des

    ordures ménagères.

    La loi n'établit pas de liste des encombrants, mais en pratique il peut notamment s'agir :

    • du mobilier (table, chaises, armoire...),
    • de matelas,
    • de sommiers,
    • d'appareils de gros électroménager (lave-linge, réfrigérateur, gazinière...) si la commune les accepte en tant que tels.

    Toutefois, certains déchets bien que volumineux ne sont pas considérés comme des encombrants, notamment :

    • les gravats qui doivent être amenés en déchetterie,
    • les déchets verts (herbe tondue, branchages ...),
    • les pneus usagés (qui doivent être repris gratuitement par votre garagiste),
    • les bouteilles de gaz qui doivent être reprises gratuitement par le vendeur ou remise à un point de collecte,
    • les véhicules à moteur (carcasses de voitures, cyclomoteurs...).

  6. I had a friend who played the French horn in the Covent Garden orchestra...
    he told me of a concert on a cramped stage where she had to try to squeeze on to the stage by a tiny space between brass players....
    One of them said to her..."what if you came on sideways?"...and she replied "buster there AIN'T no sideways" [:D]

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