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Tax, inheritance and debt in France: every English guide, by question
An income-tax claim ordinarily runs until 31 December of the second year after collection begins; some events provide another starting point (Book of Tax Procedures, R*196-1). A parent-child gift has an ordinary €100,000 allowance, taking account of earlier gifts within the relevant 15-year period (General Tax Code, 779 and 784). This index groups our guides on tax, inheritance, debt and benefits in France.
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Tax: how do you declare, make a claim or answer the tax authorities?
Actual expenses, rental income, foreign accounts, claims, reassessments, tax residence, adult children, property capital gains and taxe foncière: the rules, the time limits and the remedies.
- Correcting a French tax return: online, then a claim
- Respond to a proposed French tax adjustment
- French tax residence: domestic criteria and treaty tie-breakers
- Actual expenses or the 10% deduction in France: compared
- Capital gains tax on French property 2026: rates, allowances
- Property tax in France 2026 (taxe foncière): dates, reliefs
- French rental income tax 2026: micro-foncier or real regime
- Form 3916 in France: declaring a foreign bank account
- Adult child: French tax choice
Inheritance and gifts: what should you calculate and check?
Allowances, the children’s reserved share, wills, joint ownership and life insurance.
- Gift tax in France: the €100,000 allowance per child
- French inheritance with debts: your 3 options
- Forced heirship in France: your children’s real share
- French handwritten will: form checks
- Prepare evidence to challenge a French will
- An estate blocked by an heir in France
- Leave inherited property indivision in France
- Life-insurance disputes in a French estate
- Usufruct repairs under French law
- Cross-border inheritance involving France: organize the evidence
- French inheritance tax return: 6 months, then the duty
- Surviving spouse’s rights in France: usufruct or a quarter
- Small estate in France without a notary: the €5,965 limit
Couples and property: which financial consequences?
Pacs or marriage, marriage contract, Pacs agreement, buying together, compensatory allowance.
Debt, bailiff, seizure: how do you react to a demand for payment?
Check that the debt exists and is not time-barred, ask for time to pay, answer each stage of recovery, or recover a bounced cheque.
- French order to pay received: identify the act and oppose safely
- French bank account seizure: identify the notice and next path
- French wage seizure: read your notice
- French acknowledgment of debt: checks
- Prepare a French over-indebtedness file
- Request correction of a French FICP entry
- Court payment extension in France: up to 2 years for a debt
- Bounced cheque in France: certificate, deadlines, interest
CAF, RSA, AAH, invalidity, retirement, care homes: how do you get help or challenge a decision?
Overpayments, enforcement orders, RSA refusal or suspension, AAH, complementary health solidarity (CSS), invalidity pension, working while retired, survivor’s pension and care-home accommodation aid: the amounts, the time limits and the prior appeal.
- RSA refusal: appeal in France
- AAH refused in France: the RAPO appeal, step by step
- Survivor’s pension in France: 54%, from age 55, under a cap
- AAH disability allowance in France: €1,041.59 a month
- Care home costs in France: children’s duty and social aid
- Invalidity pension in France: 2026 amount and application
- Working while retired in France 2026: the cap, before 2027
- Apply for French C2S health cover