French tax allowances 2017 (2016 income) - confused!

[Visky]

Hello, I wonder if I could ask for a bit of help with this please..

We are on

a low income so currently pay no tax, and looking to make a draw-down from a UK

pension pot to include in this tax year. 

I'm having trouble finding out the level of income at which we would

remain below the taxable threshold - I been searching for ages, and have found

various figures on line but cannot fathom out the various workings! 

For

example, https://www.frenchproperty.com/news/tax_france/income_tax_thresholds_2016/  shows the bands, but going through their

worked example, 27000 joint would imply tax of (3800x14%)x2 = 1064, yet the

table further down the page it seems to say it would be zero.

Our

situation is:  married couple, income UK

state pension of approx € 10,000 (before the 10% deduction) and depending on

final exchange rate,  plus some bits of

interest/premium bonds totaling about € 1300.  

Any idea how I find out how much approx 

I would be able to draw to keep under the level for tax?

Thanks in advance

[pomme]

You will find lots of information if you search for barème d'imposition des revenus 2016 impôt 2017

As an example, there is a calculator here

[Visky]

[quote user="pomme"]You will find lots of information if you search for barème d'imposition des revenus 2016 impôt 2017

As an example, there is a calculator here

[/quote]

Thank you very much for the link Pomme, it is very useful.  I had found a couple of simulator sites myself but discovered, having input all the figures, that they insist on all your co-ordinates before supplying the calculations..

I've been working through some examples, and  surprised to discover that the zero tax level does indeed seem to be quite high - which is nice - although there is the CSG to allow for, and I guess the loss of exemption for TDH also.

I'm still mystified as to how there is such a discrepancy between the theoretical basic tax bands thresholds and the actual results - maybe it's better not to look too closely!  [:D]

[idun]

The only tax simulateur I use is on the impots web site. Never let me down.......yet![:)]

[Visky]

Thanks, but that one is out of date (still on 2016 for 2015 income), and is much more cumbersome to use for repeat "what if"s.

Still doesn't explain the gap between given band thresholds and actual though! [:D]