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- Sat Sep 02, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Damp problem
- Replies: 5
- Views: 373
Re: Damp problem
Perhaps you could consider the French system called VMC (ventilation mechanic controlée) used for many years in new build. It comprises low output permanent ventilation, usually in the roof space, with very small extract grills in each room connected to flexible tubing and an almost silent extract f...
- Sat May 20, 2023 4:13 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Impots etc
- Replies: 1
- Views: 344
Re: Impots etc
20% seems high to me but I don't know the rules when you are non resident. All our income is in France and declared here so the rental income is just added to the rest and at present we are taxed at around 4% on the total income. Regarding the monthly tax payments, I answered that on your other post...
- Sat May 20, 2023 3:46 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: PRÉLÈVEMENT À LA SOURCE
- Replies: 1
- Views: 254
Re: PRÉLÈVEMENT À LA SOURCE
This will be the social charges on the income you declare which is separate from tax on the revenue. We get this deducted on the 15th of each month except when the 15th is at the weekend when the deduction is a day or two later.
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Items going missing
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3379
Re: Items going missing
Do you not take a security deposit? We do with a clause in the booking conditions that it will be returned within one week of departure after the property has been checked. In such a case we would have made a deduction, not only for the missing items but also extra cleaning due to the dog as she did...
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:04 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Anyone have experience with Amivac.com?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1584
Re: Anyone have experience with Amivac.com?
I haven't tried Amivac but for anyone with a French property, www.france-voyage.com works for us and gives us about half of our enquiries and subsequent bookings. Current cost 48€ per year and the advert is translated by them into 9 languages including Chinese and Japanese.
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 1:46 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Where are the naturists?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1612
Where are the naturists?
Is it a Europe wide problem concerning the lack of bookings? After Pengman (in Dorset) and Casscat (in Spain) referring to the lack of bookings, we are also very short of bookings for our naturist beach appartment on the Mediterranean coast near Perpignan in France. In earlier years July and August ...
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:13 am
- Forum: France
- Topic: Enquiries for France
- Replies: 2
- Views: 829
Enquiries for France
I will be interested to know how French property owners are doing this year for enquiries. I think this year we have had the lowest number of enquiries for the last 10 years. Any theories as to why this should be?
- Thu Aug 19, 2021 11:09 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: HFD demise
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2179
We use France-voyage.com from which we receive around half of our bookings. Subscription based, very reasonable (42€ one year, 78€ 2 years). We did our advert in French but they translate into 8 other languages. we have had bookings from Dutch, German, Italian, French and recently American (from Flo...
- Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:56 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: What would you do - advice please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1764
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:05 pm
- Forum: Just starting out
- Topic: Letting from a distance
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2075
We are in France, so perhaps not entirely similar circumstances, but for 10 years, until last year, we were living 400km (4 hours on mostly motorway) from our beach rental property. Now we have moved and are 20 minutes away. We decided from the start to deal with changeovers ourselves and do the 800...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:06 am
- Forum: France
- Topic: Classification 'meuble' for British resident taxpayer?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1754
OK, I see where you are coming from. Two considerations in my mind : 1. Would a higher tax de séjour, if you are not classified, put off a potential guest? Possibly not in Nice which I suppose attracts better off guests. 2. A good classification (e.g. 2 or 3 star) could perhaps be an advantage and w...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:39 am
- Forum: France
- Topic: Classification 'meuble' for British resident taxpayer?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1754
Re: Classification 'meuble' for British resident taxpayer?
Might be a bit complicated, but I have a flat in Nice, rentable May to October, placed with an agency (interhome/HHD). They keep bugging me to pay to get my flat classified (about 200 euros) claiming taxes can be as high as 4 euros pp per night if I don't. My thought is that as a UK resident and ta...
- Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:35 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Do Covid restrictions mean I have a case to withhold taxes?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4879
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:37 am
- Forum: France
- Topic: Do Covid restrictions mean I have a case to withhold taxes?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4879
If your principal residence is not in France, whatever nationality you are, you cannot claim any of the tax reductions on taxe d'habitation for your second home(s) in France. That is made clear in one of the official sources posted by Anno. Also if your principal residence is in France as I mention...
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:46 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Do Covid restrictions mean I have a case to withhold taxes?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4879
Re: Do Covid restrictions mean I have a case to withhold tax
As a UK non-French-domicile with a holiday home in France, I am subject to two sets of high property taxes (city and national I think), and yet I am not allowed to travel there at the moment, and am newly constricted to 90 days out of a rolling 180. In that case, where I am denied practical usage b...