[BITList] BITList Digest, Vol 3, Issue 5 Life in france

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Fred
Thanks for your insights into French life as you know I have been 
thinking of buying a pad there for  out of season holidays mind you that 
was before the oz dollar started to do its tunneling though to France 
without me I thought I had researched things pretty well but I'm 
learning more each time I read one of your posts
frank

>
> Oki Doki,
>               I've just got back from paying my Tax Fonciere (Land Tax 
> in France) the house tax is referred to as Tax d'Habitation and is 
> payable in another couple of months, lessens the agony somewhat but 
> the bastards stick on the TV license fee as well so get out of that 
> bold move if you can, there are reductions of course for those who 
> have sod all money and of course the dead but they are the only 
> exceptions. As I live on a farm with 22 acres of land I feel I do 
> quite well compared to my sons fourth floor flat in Chateauroux, he 
> pays more and there are four of them on the same plot of land, if I 
> thought the French had a sense of humour I would write to the Tresor 
> Public demanding an explanation, knowing full well this would bring 
> about a visit from some state employed arsehole is the only reason 
> that I desist, plus he would spot my twenty two acres of opium poppies 
> I planted recently!
>               There are two more money raising wheezes recently dreamt 
> up here that a worth a mention. First of all bank interest rates or 
> lack of them. For those poor sods who thought their savings were 
> generating guaranteed amounts think again, its been capped at a level 
> the government deems appropriate, the banks then have to pay the 
> remainder direct to the government, after tax of course, there's 
> Gordon Brown thinking he had cornered the market on 'Sly & Subtle'. 
> The French Post Office in its wisdom have decided that all parcels 
> that have destinations outside of France must now travel 'Prioritaire' 
> at four times the cost of 'Ordinaire', it still takes as long as 
> ordinaire to get there but what the hell, I have just spent twice as 
> much money sending a book to my wifes uncle than it cost me to 
> purchase. Other employment and money making schemes include a new tax 
> on fish that will pay for the French fishing fleet to contiue its 
> plundering of British fishing grounds, it will no doubt pay the fuel 
> bill for the French Navy and much else as well. Villages throughout 
> France will now have to have main sewer systems and plants, that is of 
> course unless one has a system thats compliant with the new 
> regulations only dreamt up recently, it is of course impossible to 
> have the correct system as the authorities have added on bits that 
> didn't exist before. Oh well back to the grindstone of life!
>                                              BR Fred
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