Fiscal Representatives

[Bertie1]

Has anyone had any experience of finding/using a Fiscal Representative, as required when selling a property over a certain value? Are there any agencies dealing with this in France and how expensive is it?

Any help would be gratefully received![:)]

[woolybanana]

You mean that you are selling a second home? Your notaire will know the company to deal with, in fact he will do it for you as he has to do by law I think. It is a big fiddle, by the way.

[Pickles]

The cost is 1% of the sale price, not the profit (if any). And it is discriminatory and illegal under the EU treaty, since it does not apply to French residents.

[EuroTrash]

I'm not convinced that you can argue that it's illegal to discriminate between residents and non-residents when it comes to tax law. Every country's fiscal rules treat residents and non-residents differently.

[Bertie1]

Thanks for the advice! Much appreciated and interesting!

[Quillan]

It may well be discriminatory but it is French law.

You will need one if the sale price is 150,000 (Euros) or over.

You can take off the costs of buying the property and also those of having the varous inspections that enable you to sell it. You can also offset work carried out if you bought a wreck and renovated it providing it was done by a Fench registered builder and you paid TVA. You should check into that and exactly how it works as I am out of my depth a little on that one.

As Wooly said the Notaire will normally 'suggest' one but you are not obliged to use the one he suggests.

The French term for them is représentant fiscal and you can use 'Yellow Pages' to find one in your region. I would suggest you search by region rather than town or department. For example there are only three in Languedoc Roussillon (my region) but if you search by department nothing comes up.

'Yellow Pages' - http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/