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Comment on Using a gas grill from the US in France by H
From France Tales, 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I am also living in France (Corsica, actually), and brought over a nice Weber Q220 grill, because the same one here is over 300 Euro! (It was only $200 new in the US…)
I brought it over as one of my “suitcases”, right in the shipping box.
So now I’m trying to figure out how to convert it from propane to butane, and found your blog. After a lot of research, and reading from people who say there are HUGE differences between propane and butane.. I think the truth is...
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by Owen
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Just this morning I went to the prefecture to straighten it out. I got there and the employee didn’t know what a contrat d’integration was. She had to ask someone else. Then they told me I had to sign one in order to make my medical appointment. I had my contrôle medicale recipissé so I asked, how would I have received this without doing it, they shrugged their shoulders. I asked why it was never asked for in my preivous renewals. No answer. I said I didn’t mind doing whatever...
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by patricio molina
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
You and I seem to see eye to eye on these matters.as you set the tone very well pointing out that just when you thinks it’s over, it isn’t….At the most inconvenient time (though not to sound pessimistic), there is some other bureaucratic detail to attend to though you should have been apprised by the functionnaires much before hand……I , at 60 years old, am well familiar with government red tape in several countries and have to learned that it is useless to fight...
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by Owen
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Well since I don’t earn much money here in France, except for advertising on my blog hint hint, it is not a big worry of mine. I have never had to find out except that I have a rental property in the US and know that I do not have to pay or declare my income in France for it. I declare it in the US and I declare my French income here, and then do a supplemental form on my US taxes to show I declared and paid my taxes here for the work I do here and then I am exempt.
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by patricio molina
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I heard about this type of tax situation before, for example,in brazil (although all the expats there whom I know tell me that they pay no tax nor even bother to file a tax return)…….Panama has a treaty with USA where neither taxes foreign source income…..But I understand that the first 96000 us$ for expats is not taxed by the USA for the simple reason of being an expat…….Thus if one has to pay tax on foreign source income to france or any country where he or she...
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by Owen
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
if you “work” while in France even if the “work” is outside of France and you are paid in another currency you must pay taxes on it. Retirement income is not subject to tax, and neither is rental income from outside of France. There is a tax treaty between the US and France that basically states you have to pay your taxes in one or the other country. If you pay in one country but your tax burdon in the other is higher, you have to pay the difference to the other country....
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by Owen
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Well luckily I just had to fill out a few forms and wait a few months and then I had my French licence. I’m not sure about the international licence. I know it is valid but I am not sure if there is a limit of time before you have to get a French one, but then at the same time, if you will be traveling between Spain, France, and Portugal maybe that is the best solution anyway. If you have Spanish citizenship, it might be easier to get a licence in Spain, I think EU licences are good in EU...
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by Patricio Molina
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
What are the tax consequences or obligations of EU citizens or non-EU residents of france (cartes de sejours holders) on income from external sources, e.g., social security, foreign pensions, etc.?………Thanks!
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by Patricio Molina
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One can also apply for an International Driver’s License which I see france recognizes….Can one use this in lieu of having to apply, take classes,and a road test in france'…Thanks!
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by Owen
From France Tales, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Thanks for stopping by Patricio. Since my readers mainly speak English I will respond in English. Your situation seems pretty easy. Although nothing in France is as easy as it appears. If you have an EU passport there is nothing you really need to do to live in France special. Even if you did not, if you are retired and have an income and have medical insurance, you can apply for a carte de sejour that doesn’t allow you to work. No one is really denied since you would have minimal impact...
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Comment on I received my new carte de sejour! by patricio molina
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I was born in USA of spanish parents and thus have an EU passport……..My wife is brazilian and we would like to move permanently to france but also travel back and forth to spain and portugal from time to time….I just retired at age 60 and have enough pension to support us…….In addition, we have medical insurance that pays foreign claims unlike medicare which will not…….What do we have to live permanently there in france'……..Also,if we want...
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