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Explainer: who pays France’s CFE business tax and what exemptions?
We look at the rules around this tax, which also applies to self-employed workers
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Will my children’s university expenses be liable to French gift tax?
Children may still be 'attached' to their parent's residence for tax purposes whilst at university
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What you can challenge on a French taxe d’habitation bill - and how to do it
Over €700 million was erroneously collected for the property tax last year
Unit for owning up to tax evasion closes
A service allowing tax avoiders to own up and avoid heavier penalties if found out, has closed, having collected €8 billion in tax and penalties
Some 14,000 remaining applications will still be dealt with this year. It opened in 2013 after controversy over the then budget minister who was found to have hidden money abroad.
An increasing number of countries, including all EU ones, are now in theory open to the automatic exchange of information on bank accounts, even if, partly for technical reasons, this is not yet operational everywhere.