bathrooms : taxes

[Chancer]

[quote user="ErnieY"][blink][:P]

A friend nearby who is trying to sell is in for a massive shock as his house was basically 1 bed + kitchen + lounge but now has second floor in the roof space with 2 more bedrooms and a bathroom and I know for a fact that nothing has been declared to anyone.

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It will not be him but the new owners that get the shock unless they are shrewd enough to keep schtuum.

I wasnt [:(] I cracked under temptation at the hôtel des impots when they told me mine would go down as I was still paying for commercial use, true indeed if the previous French owners were as keen to declare their true habitable areas and level of confort as most of the posters on this forum.

They profited by continuing to pay on only 36m2, as did I for the first couple of years but now I await the taxe d'habitation bill for the true 250m2, I was pleased to see that the taxes foncieres were not affected.

[cassis]

[quote user="ErnieY"]Does replacing a bidet with a WC count, after all they're sort of similar in function [blink][:P]

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You mean you wash your feet in the toilet?  [blink]

[Llantony]

'We have knocked two rooms through to make a large kitchen, meaning we now have one less bedroom.....does this mean that our tax will go down?'

I never thought about it, we have a very small house but decided to install a 2nd loo in our downstairs 'cave' while redoing the bathroom.  Seems very unhygenic to have a loo and no basin! 

I wonder if knocking down walls, as we have done, would balance out the extra loo for tax purposes?

 

[tonyv]

[quote user="Llantony"]

Seems very unhygenic to have a loo and no basin! 

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The French are lovely people, but hygene doesn't seem to score higly on their list of priorities[:)]

Generally speaking, of course!

[mint]

I've lost count of the number of houses I turned down that had loos but no handbasin and no way of adding in a handbasin for reasons of space or ease of plumbing.

Put me right off to think everyone would be using the door handle without washing their hands first.

[Théière]

Maybe this is the reason the French greet with a kiss instead of a handshake? well to close friends and family.

Now I know what you all picturing in you mind! Any one remember those bar snacks pubs used to serve in the U.K.?

Lunch anyone [:D]

[Babbles]

Just a quick side line on Bathrooms / loos and CGT,  if you are selling and have replaced a bathroom, old and tasteless rather than non existant you cannot claim it back as an expense (without a major amount of hastle) our fiscale agent would only allow the new one and referred back to our purchase agreement to see what was there when we bought it. We did manage to get them include after getting a sworn letter from the builder, having had a new fosse septic installed (so we said all the plumbing was new and related to) and bursting into tears in the Notaires office[;-)] but I don't know which of these made them change their minds.

[Jo]

Our bathroom currently has a his 'n' hers basin, however, since there is more to life than cleaning sanitaryware I intend to remove them and replace with one basin, will my tax go down if I let them know?[8-)]

[Nearly Retired (I am now)]

I am reminded of the window tax in England in 1700/1800 or whenever. People just used to brick-up their windows to not have to pay it. Don't give the French any ideas - most houses are dark enough already.