Ouch ! this is starting to hurt.

[Helen]

Thanks Clair for the advice.  Now we just have to wait and see how much it hurts us when our turn comes!

Helen

[NormanH]

As I stated before my taxes

foncieres will go up considerably next year, can I expect a similar

increase in taxe d'habitation, i.e. are they linked?

I believe that they are loosely linked, but the th is quite complicated to calculate without knowing personal circumstances.

In each place I have lived the th has been a little less than the tf but not much.

Of

course there are exemptions for some people for the th, mainly on

grounds such as low income and age,  or the number of people in the

family.

There is a 'Valeur locative' which is calculated (

supposedly the value if the property were let) , and then the various

allowances are taken off, so for example a single person may pay more

th than a previous occupant with a large family, or an elderly person.