Calculating Impôts locaux?

[joidevie]

Hello - I've been looking around the taxe.com web site for information on local taxes.. Is anyone familiar with what the figures mean in terms of calculating the impots (see below). Is it a multiplier of the 'surface habitable'? I'm mainly interested in how to calculate for 'habitation' and 'foncieres' based on a residence secondaire, from the view of a UK resident.. Many thanks for any help.

Impôts locaux

Commune

Département AUDE

Régions : LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON

Taxe d'habitation

Taux communal15.95

Taux départemental9.43

Taux régionalNon applicable

Taxe professionnelle

Taux communal0.00

Taux intercommunal17.90

Taux départemental14.68

Taux régional4.15

Taxe foncière sur les propriétés bâties

Taux communal33.62

Taux départemental21.17

Taux régional4.70

Taxe foncière sur les propriétés non bâties

Taux communal97.42

Taux départemental54.93

Taux régional5.37

Droits de mutation

Taux communal1.20%

Taux départemental3.60%

Prélèvement état0.09%

Conservateur hypothèques0.10%

Exonération en cas deCessions

de logements réalisées par les organismes d'H.L.M. ou les S.E.M..

Rachats effectués par les organismes d'H.L.M. ou les S.E.M. de

logements d'accédants à la propriété en difficulté.

[giantpanda]

Hi!

As long as you do not have the valeur locative of your premises, you can forget it.

You are trying to do something that no one does.

Under normally circumstances, you get the information of last year's  local taxes ( NB. This is a local matter, and depends on the finances of a Commune, so there are great variations, from one to another ) from the immobilier.

NB. Should you file a " permis de construire " or " une declaration de travaux ", then you taxes will go up.

As regards the percentages charged, they can vary per Commune each year.

It is to be expected that the taxes will go up steeply in 2009, and if they have tried to delay this, then in 2010.

Over 30% ( average in France) of the loans by the Communes ) made locally are so-called "bad loans" ( and we are talking of loans for long than 20 years, some 50 years ). The extra costs are so high, that there has been a general appeal to the State, who can not really do anything.

Yours,

giantpanda

[joidevie]

Thanks for the grim outlook...  :o(    In for some serious tax hikes then!