The "Real" tax rate in France...
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Perik Omo said:
There are substantial infrastructure projects going on in our closest major town, it's hard to understand why when hardly anybody goes there anymore and new shops last only a few months before closing down and the only shops that seem to last are the two boulangeries, the Tabac, the ecoFrais, the estate agents (there are three of those for some reason) and the cordonnerie (he is well past retirement age and reckons that there is no one else to carry on the business). The town virtually gave up when a brand new Intermarche Super opened up to replace the smallish local one. Our local commune has a brand new fountain, seating area and new 30km/h road scheme where the footpath and road through are one of the same. The health service is great and very efficient, I'm having a minor op on 3rd January to remove a cyst and the surgeon asked me when I wanted it done which could have been the same week as my consultation but we were going away. All the local "C" roads are resurfaced every 3 years and the verges mown/cut every month.
The communes do take pride in their environment and work hard to maintain them, yes, we do pay for it indirectly but I think it's worth the money and it's going to be what I miss when we move away next year and not at all looking forward to going back to the UK, we've just spent a week at out daughters there and found it a very depressing experience with just how things have deteriorated since we left in 2004.
I thought a lot of funding for that came from taxe d'habitation, in which case if it is being reduced/ removed, will the local authorities continue to have as much to play with..?The communes do take pride in their environment and work hard to maintain them, yes, we do pay for it indirectly but I think it's worth the money and it's going to be what I miss when we move away next year and not at all looking forward to going back to the UK, we've just spent a week at out daughters there and found it a very depressing experience with just how things have deteriorated since we left in 2004.
http://www.leparisien.fr/politique/taxe-d-habitati...
Perik Omo said:
<Snip> it's going to be what I miss when we move away next year and not at all looking forward to going back to the UK, we've just spent a week at out daughters there and found it a very depressing experience with just how things have deteriorated since we left in 2004.
Out of interest, what did you think the big difference are now in the UK, and are the things you thought that were bad/ negative better in FR? Gassing Station | France | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff