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Guides and news: Tax and estate

Tax and estate: practical guides and legal news from the firm, newest first.

Written by Maître Reda Kohen, member of the Paris Bar. About Maître Reda Kohen

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Tax and estate

British Family in France After Brexit: Should You Put Your French House in an SCI – Costs, Tax and How to Challenge a Refusal or a Bill

British family with a French house after Brexit: SCI setup, yearly costs and tax, gifts and succession of shares, and how to challenge a refusal or a bill.

Tax and estate

British Retiree in France After Brexit: Your UK Pension Taxed, Your 25% Lump Sum, Your QROPS Transfer and How to Challenge the Bill

French tax resident with a UK pension? How the France-UK treaty allocates each pension, how France taxes the 25% lump sum and QROPS transfers, when CSG applies with an S1, and how to challen …

Tax and estate

British Parent, French House After Brexit: Gifting It to Your Children Now — Donation-Partage, Usufruit and the Tax Bill

How a British parent can gift a French house to the children now: donation-partage, keeping the usufruit, gift tax and how to challenge a refusal.

Tax and estate

British Heir, French Succession Tax Bill After Brexit: Allowances, Rates, Treaty Relief and How to Challenge the Assessment

A British heir faces French succession tax on each share received: 100,000 euro allowance per child, progressive rates, total spouse exemption, the 1963 treaty and formal remedies. Our Briti …

Tax and estate

British Family, French House in an SCI After Brexit: Passing the Shares to Your Children Without a Blocked Succession

How a British family creates and runs a French SCI, chooses English law for the shares, protects the children within the forced-heirship rules, pays the right tax, and challenges a blocked s …

Tax and estate

British Owner in France After Brexit: Your Taxe Foncière and Taxe d’Habitation Bills — How to Check, Pay and Challenge Them

British owner in France: how taxe foncière and second-home taxe d'habitation are calculated after Brexit, and how to challenge a wrong bill before 31 December.

Tax and estate

My French Notaire Will Not Accept My UK Grant of Probate After Brexit: Apostille, Translation and How to Unblock the Succession

Your French notaire refuses your UK grant of probate. Apostille, sworn translation, European Certificate of Succession, tax deadlines and how to challenge an unjustified refusal.

Tax and estate

British Seller in France After Brexit: Capital Gains Tax on Your French House, Exemptions and How to Challenge the Bill

British seller in France after Brexit: 19 percent capital gains tax, holding allowances, main-home relief and how to challenge the bill.

Tax and estate

British Resident in France with a UK Trust After Brexit: How to Declare It, Pay the Yearly Levy and Challenge Tax at Death

British in France with a UK trust: which French returns to file, what the yearly levy costs, what happens on death, and how to challenge the bill.

Tax and estate

British Will, French House After Brexit: Choosing English Law, Keeping Your Children Protected, and Challenging a Blocked Succession

English will, house in France? Habitual residence, choice of English law, forced shares, French succession tax and how to challenge a refusal.

Tax and estate

British Resident in France With a UK Family Trust After Brexit: How to Declare It, What the Annual Levy Costs, and How Death Duties and Challenges Work

Your UK family trust does not shield you once you live in France: TRUST1 and TRUST2 declarations, the 1.5% yearly levy, succession duties by kinship, and how to challenge a wrong bill.

Tax and estate

British Family Buying a French Home Through an SCI After Brexit: Should You Create One, How It Is Taxed and How It Passes to Your Children

British family buying in France? How an SCI works, what it costs in tax, how shares pass to children, and how to challenge a reassessment after Brexit.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

Partner, member of the Paris Bar, 11 rue Margueritte, 75017 Paris. Author of the analyses published in this journal. About