{"id":2123380,"date":"2026-09-17T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/2026\/09\/17\/british-owner-france-taxe-fonciere-property-tax-bill-challenge-brexit\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:08:13","slug":"british-owner-france-taxe-fonciere-property-tax-bill-challenge-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/british-owner-france-taxe-fonciere-property-tax-bill-challenge-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"British Owner in France: Taxe Fonci\u00e8re (Property Tax) Bill After Brexit \u2014 Who Pays, How to Read the Avis and How to Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brown envelope, or the pdf in your <em>espace particulier<\/em> (personal tax account on impots.gouv.fr), arrives in the last quarter. It is headed <em>avis de taxe fonci\u00e8re<\/em> (the annual property-tax notice). It is not council tax. It is not the old <em>taxe d&#8217;habitation<\/em> (the dwelling tax that still bites second homes). It is not the <a href=\"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/british-owner-france-ifi-wealth-tax-bill-declare-value-challenge-brexit\/\">IFI real-estate wealth tax<\/a>. It is a local tax on the building itself, due whether you live in Dordogne, keep a flat empty in Paris, or still spend most of the year in Kent. After Brexit the same French rules apply to a British owner as to anyone else who holds bricks and mortar in France. Living in the United Kingdom does not wipe the bill out. Letting the house to a tenant does not transfer it. Selling in March does not, by itself, split it with the buyer.<\/p>\n<p>This guide is for the British owner who has just opened that avis and needs to know three things: who the law treats as the taxpayer, how the figure is built (including the waste charge printed on the same page), and how to challenge a wrong name, a wrong valuation or a missed exemption without missing the payment date. The purchase process itself belongs to another desk. What follows is the yearly tax on holding the property, the exemptions that attach to the person or to the building, and the administrative claim that has to be filed before the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat (the French supreme administrative court) will even look at a later appeal. Service-Public&#8217;s page on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.service-public.gouv.fr\/particuliers\/vosdroits\/F59\">taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties<\/a> (tax on built property, TFPB) is the official starting map. The binding text sits in the <em>code g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des imp\u00f4ts<\/em> (CGI, the French tax code) and in the case-law of the administrative courts.<\/p>\n<h2>I. I received a French property tax bill after Brexit: who pays and how is it calculated?<\/h2>\n<h3>A. What is taxe fonci\u00e8re and who is the redevable if I live in the UK or the house is let?<\/h3>\n<p>Article 1380 of the CGI states, in terms that have barely moved in forty years: &#8220;La taxe fonci\u00e8re est \u00e9tablie annuellement sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties sises en France \u00e0 l&#8217;exception de celles qui en sont express\u00e9ment exon\u00e9r\u00e9es par les dispositions du pr\u00e9sent code.&#8221; In English: the tax is charged each year on built property situated in France, except where the code itself grants an exemption. The connecting factor is the land, not your passport and not your tax residence. A British national who is tax-resident in the United Kingdom still owes French <em>taxe fonci\u00e8re<\/em> on a house in France. The France\u2013United Kingdom double tax convention, which we discuss in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/british-tax-resident-france-183-days-foyer-treaty-challenge-brexit\/\">residence article<\/a>, does not rewrite article 1380. If you need the current wording, it is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006305965\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006305965\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L\u00e9gifrance, article 1380 CGI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The person who must pay is the <em>redevable<\/em> (the person legally liable). Article 1400 I of the CGI provides: &#8220;Sous r\u00e9serve des dispositions des articles 1403 et 1404 , toute propri\u00e9t\u00e9, b\u00e2tie ou non b\u00e2tie, doit \u00eatre impos\u00e9e au nom du propri\u00e9taire actuel.&#8221; Every property, built or unbuilt, must be assessed in the name of the current owner, subject to articles 1403 and 1404. The full article is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000034110958\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000034110958\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1400 CGI<\/a>. Article 1400 II then shifts the bill, in listed cases, onto the <em>usufruitier<\/em> (the holder of a life interest who may use the property and take its fruits), the long-leaseholder under a <em>bail emphyt\u00e9otique<\/em> or <em>bail \u00e0 construction<\/em>, or the holder of certain other real rights. A British couple who have carved out an usufruct for a parent, or who bought in viager (a sale for a life annuity, with the seller often keeping a right of use), must read that paragraph before they assume the registered freeholder is the only name that matters. Service-Public is blunt on the ordinary case: you pay if you are owner or usufructuary of a built property on 1 January of the tax year, and you pay even if a tenant occupies the house.<\/p>\n<p>The snapshot date is not a matter of administrative convenience. Article 1415 of the CGI, in the version in force on 17 September 2026, reads: &#8220;La taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties, la taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s non b\u00e2ties et la taxe d&#8217;habitation sur les r\u00e9sidences secondaires sont \u00e9tablies pour l&#8217;ann\u00e9e enti\u00e8re d&#8217;apr\u00e8s les faits existants au 1er janvier de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e de l&#8217;imposition.&#8221; Built-property tax, unbuilt-property tax and the remaining dwelling tax on second homes are assessed for the whole year according to the facts existing on 1 January of the tax year. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000051219169\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000051219169\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1415 CGI<\/a>. The Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat applied that 1 January rule in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000046752590\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000046752590\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CE, 8th chamber, 16 December 2022, no. 461939<\/a>, recalling that, under article 1415, the tax is due &#8220;pour l&#8217;ann\u00e9e enti\u00e8re d&#8217;apr\u00e8s les faits existants au 1er janvier de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e d&#8217;imposition&#8221;. If you complete in March, the tax office still sends the year&#8217;s avis to the person who owned on 1 January. Service-Public says the same: the administration does not split the year when the owner changes. Any apportionment with the buyer is a private clause in the <em>acte de vente<\/em> (the notarial sale deed), not a rewriting of the r\u00f4le (the tax roll).<\/p>\n<p>A tenant is not the redevable of <em>taxe fonci\u00e8re<\/em>. The owner pays. What often confuses British landlords is the second line on the same notice: <em>taxe d&#8217;enl\u00e8vement des ordures m\u00e9nag\u00e8res<\/em> (TEOM, the household-waste collection tax). Service-Public states that you must pay both TFPB and TEOM even if the dwelling is let, but that TEOM is among the <em>charges r\u00e9cup\u00e9rables<\/em> (service charges the landlord may recover from the tenant under the tenancy rules). Recovering TEOM from a tenant is a lease question. It does not change who the tax office will chase. If the property is held through an SCI (<em>soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile immobili\u00e8re<\/em>, a French civil property company), the company is in principle the owner on the cadastre. Article 1400 III has a special rule only for the transparent co-ownership companies of article 1655 ter, where each member is assessed on his share. An ordinary family SCI is not that vehicle. The avis will usually name the SCI. A British shareholder who has kept the UK as home still sees a French bill in the company&#8217;s name; ignoring it because &#8220;I live in Surrey&#8221; is how penalties start.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong name on the avis is a recognised defect, not a reason to do nothing. Article 1404 I of the CGI provides: &#8220;Lorsque au titre d&#8217;une ann\u00e9e une cotisation de taxe fonci\u00e8re a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tablie au nom d&#8217;une personne autre que le redevable l\u00e9gal, le d\u00e9gr\u00e8vement de cette cotisation est prononc\u00e9 \u00e0 condition que les obligations pr\u00e9vues \u00e0 l&#8217;article 1402 aient \u00e9t\u00e9 respect\u00e9es. L&#8217;imposition du redevable l\u00e9gal au titre de la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e est \u00e9tablie au profit de l&#8217;Etat dans la limite de ce d\u00e9gr\u00e8vement (1).&#8221; If a year&#8217;s assessment was raised in the name of someone other than the legal taxpayer, that assessment is discharged provided the cadastral mutation duties of article 1402 have been met, and the true taxpayer is then assessed, for the State&#8217;s benefit, up to the amount discharged. The text is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006311587\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006311587\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1404 CGI<\/a>. Article 1402 itself requires owners to see that mutations of title are carried onto the cadastre, and that no legal change is mutated unless the deed or judgment has first been published at the <em>fichier immobilier<\/em> (the land charges file): see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006306074\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006306074\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1402 CGI<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000045930031\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000045930031\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CE, 3rd chamber, 16 June 2022, no. 447507<\/a>, the court held that once the judge has discharged a person who was not the legal taxpayer, &#8220;le juge est tenu, m\u00eame en l&#8217;absence de toute demande des parties, de d\u00e9signer le redevable l\u00e9gal de l&#8217;imposition au vu des \u00e9l\u00e9ments port\u00e9s \u00e0 sa connaissance et apr\u00e8s avoir mis en cause ce redevable&#8221; \u2014 the court must, even without a party asking, designate the legal taxpayer in the light of the material before it and after joining that person. A British vendor who still receives the avis after a completed sale should not treat the paper as a private matter between friends. The roll has to be corrected, and the true owner will be put on it.<\/p>\n<h3>B. How is the avis built: cadastral rental value, TEOM, SCI and the 1 January rule?<\/h3>\n<p>The amount is not a percentage of the market price you paid in euros, and it is not your UK council-tax band. Article 1388 of the CGI sets the base: &#8220;La taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties est \u00e9tablie d&#8217;apr\u00e8s la valeur locative cadastrale de ces propri\u00e9t\u00e9s d\u00e9termin\u00e9e conform\u00e9ment aux principes d\u00e9finis par les articles 1494 \u00e0 1508 et 1516 \u00e0 1518 B et sous d\u00e9duction de 50 % de son montant en consid\u00e9ration des frais de gestion, d&#8217;assurances, d&#8217;amortissement, d&#8217;entretien et de r\u00e9paration.&#8221; The tax is assessed on the <em>valeur locative cadastrale<\/em> (the cadastral rental value, a notional annual rent the property could produce), minus 50 per cent for management, insurance, depreciation, maintenance and repairs. The current text is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006311555\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006311555\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1388 CGI<\/a>. The Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat quoted that same sentence in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000051979479\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000051979479\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CE, 3rd and 8th chambers combined, 24 July 2025, no. 474557<\/a>, a decision on how a house divided into lots should be valued. Local rates voted by the commune and the intercommunal body are then applied to that halved base. Service-Public summarises the arithmetic in the same way: half the cadastral rental value, revalued each year, multiplied by the rates of the local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Cadastral rental value is not a figure you negotiate with an estate agent. Article 1494 of the CGI provides: &#8220;La valeur locative des biens passibles de la taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties, de la taxe d&#8217;habitation sur les r\u00e9sidences secondaires ou d&#8217;une taxe annexe \u00e9tablie sur les m\u00eames bases est d\u00e9termin\u00e9e, conform\u00e9ment aux r\u00e8gles d\u00e9finies par les articles 1495 \u00e0 1508 , pour chaque propri\u00e9t\u00e9 ou fraction de propri\u00e9t\u00e9 normalement destin\u00e9e \u00e0 une utilisation distincte (1).&#8221; The rental value of property liable to built-property tax, to second-home dwelling tax or to an ancillary tax on the same bases is determined, under articles 1495 to 1508, for each property or fraction of property normally intended for a distinct use. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000051219164\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000051219164\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1494 CGI<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000045431810\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000045431810\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CE, 9th chamber, 28 March 2022, no. 438905<\/a>, the court quashed a first-instance judgment that had failed to answer a plea about splitting a commercial building into three lots. The administrative judge must actually examine whether the physical layout and the use justify separate valuations. A British owner who has knocked two cottages into one, or who has a g\u00eete that is no longer a separate dwelling, is in that territory. Silence on the avis is not proof that the cadastre still matches the house.<\/p>\n<p>The notice you receive is itself a legal document. Article L. 253 of the <em>livre des proc\u00e9dures fiscales<\/em> (LPF, the tax procedures book) provides that &#8220;Un avis d&#8217;imposition est mis \u00e0 disposition, sous forme d\u00e9mat\u00e9rialis\u00e9e, dans le compte fiscal en ligne de tout contribuable inscrit au r\u00f4le des imp\u00f4ts directs&#8221; \u2014 an assessment notice is made available, in dematerialised form, in the online tax account of every taxpayer entered on the roll of direct taxes \u2014 and that the notice states the totals by type of tax, the conditions of exigibility, the date of collection and the payment deadline. The current wording is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000053547029\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000053547029\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article L. 253 LPF<\/a>. Service-Public adds that the paper or online avis arrives in the last quarter, and that you can also read it in your personal space on impots.gouv.fr. If you have no French login because you never filed an income-tax return, the first practical job is to obtain an account, not to wait for a second brown envelope to find a UK letterbox.<\/p>\n<p>TEOM is the line that most British owners misread as &#8220;rubbish rates&#8221;. It is a separate tax, usually collected on the same avis. Article 1520 I of the CGI opens: &#8220;Les communes qui assurent au moins la collecte des d\u00e9chets des m\u00e9nages peuvent instituer une taxe destin\u00e9e \u00e0 pourvoir aux d\u00e9penses du service de collecte et de traitement des d\u00e9chets m\u00e9nagers et des d\u00e9chets mentionn\u00e9s \u00e0 l&#8217;article L. 2224-14 du code g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des collectivit\u00e9s territoriales&#8221; as well as certain prevention-programme costs not covered by non-tax revenue. Municipalities that at least collect household waste may create a tax to meet the cost of collecting and treating household waste and the waste referred to in article L. 2224-14 of the local-authorities code. The article is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000037986339\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000037986339\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1520 CGI<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000052571533\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000052571533\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CE, 8th and 3rd chambers combined, 12 November 2025, no. 501633<\/a>, the court restated that TEOM &#8220;n&#8217;a pas le caract\u00e8re d&#8217;un pr\u00e9l\u00e8vement op\u00e9r\u00e9 sur les contribuables en vue de pourvoir \u00e0 l&#8217;ensemble des d\u00e9penses budg\u00e9taires, mais a exclusivement pour objet de couvrir les d\u00e9penses expos\u00e9es par la commune ou l&#8217;\u00e9tablissement public de coop\u00e9ration intercommunale comp\u00e9tent pour assurer l&#8217;enl\u00e8vement et le traitement des ordures m\u00e9nag\u00e8res&#8221; \u2014 it is not a levy to fund the whole budget, but exists solely to cover the competent authority&#8217;s waste collection and treatment costs not met by non-tax revenue assigned to those operations. The product, and therefore the rate, &#8220;ne doivent pas \u00eatre manifestement disproportionn\u00e9s par rapport au montant des d\u00e9penses expos\u00e9es pour ce service&#8221;. A TEOM line that has jumped without any change to the house can be attacked on that disproportion ground. It is not attacked by arguing that you already pay a private contractor, nor by confusing it with the second-home dwelling-tax surcharge, which is a different tax on a different roll.<\/p>\n<p>Three neighbouring bills must be kept apart if the file is not to be argued on the wrong statute. <em>Taxe fonci\u00e8re<\/em> is the yearly tax on the building, due by the owner on 1 January, whether or not anyone lives there. The remaining <em>taxe d&#8217;habitation<\/em> on second homes, and any local surcharge on under-occupied dwellings, is a tax on occupation of a residence that is not the taxpayer&#8217;s main home. IFI is a wealth tax on net real-estate value above the statutory threshold, described in our <a href=\"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/british-owner-france-ifi-wealth-tax-bill-declare-value-challenge-brexit\/\">IFI guide for British owners<\/a>. Capital gains on a later sale are another regime entirely, set out in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/british-selling-french-house-capital-gains-surtax-challenge-brexit\/\">article on selling a French house<\/a>. Paying one does not settle the others. A British owner who forwards the avis to a UK accountant with the words &#8220;French council tax&#8221; will often get an answer that mixes all four.<\/p>\n<p>New builds and reconstructions have their own clock. Article 1383 I of the CGI provides: &#8220;Les constructions nouvelles, reconstructions et additions de construction \u00e0 usage d&#8217;habitation sont exon\u00e9r\u00e9es de la taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties durant les deux ann\u00e9es qui suivent celle de leur ach\u00e8vement.&#8221; New dwellings, reconstructions and additions of residential construction are exempt from built-property tax for the two years following the year of completion. The commune may, by deliberation, cut that exemption to a stated percentage of the base, and the intercommunal body may suppress its own share. The text is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000041465492\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000041465492\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1383 CGI<\/a>. The exemption is not automatic in every commune at 100 per cent, and it does not wipe TEOM. A British buyer of an off-plan house who is told &#8220;no property tax for two years&#8221; needs the completion year, the local deliberations, and a separate look at the waste line.<\/p>\n<h2>II. How do I challenge a taxe fonci\u00e8re bill and claim an exemption as a British owner?<\/h2>\n<h3>A. Exemptions, modest-income relief and what the bill does not cover<\/h3>\n<p>Personal exemptions attach to the occupier of a main home, not to a British second home left empty for the summer. Article 1390 I of the CGI provides: &#8220;Les titulaires de l&#8217;allocation de solidarit\u00e9 aux personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es mentionn\u00e9e \u00e0 l&#8217;article L. 815-1 du code de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 sociale ou de l&#8217;allocation suppl\u00e9mentaire d&#8217;invalidit\u00e9 mentionn\u00e9e \u00e0 l&#8217;article L. 815-24 du m\u00eame code sont exon\u00e9r\u00e9s de la taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties dont ils sont passibles \u00e0 raison de leur habitation principale.&#8221; Recipients of the old-age solidarity allowance (Aspa) or of the supplementary invalidity allowance (Asi) are exempt from built-property tax on their main home. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000046873229\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000046873229\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1390 CGI<\/a>. Article 1390 II then tapers the relief over four years if the allowance stops. Service-Public warns, and the warning matters, that the exemption does not apply to TEOM. A British pensioner who receives Aspa because he lives in France as his main home is in article 1390. A British pensioner who keeps a cottage in Charente and draws a UK state pension in Hampshire is not.<\/p>\n<p>Age without the allowance is a different gate. Article 1391 I of the CGI provides: &#8220;Les redevables \u00e2g\u00e9s de plus de soixante-quinze ans au 1er janvier de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e de l&#8217;imposition sont exon\u00e9r\u00e9s de la taxe fonci\u00e8re sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties pour l&#8217;immeuble habit\u00e9 par eux, lorsque le montant des revenus de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente n&#8217;exc\u00e8de pas la limite pr\u00e9vue \u00e0 l&#8217;article 1417 .&#8221; Taxpayers over seventy-five on 1 January of the tax year are exempt for the building they inhabit, if the previous year&#8217;s income does not exceed the article 1417 ceiling. The article is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000046873220\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000046873220\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1391 CGI<\/a>. Two conditions do the real work: the building must be inhabited by the taxpayer, and the income test is the one in article 1417, not a UK notion of &#8220;modest means&#8221;. Article 1417 I, in the version applicable on 17 September 2026, states that articles 1391 and 1391 B apply to taxpayers whose previous year&#8217;s income does not exceed &#8220;la somme de 12 793 \u20ac, pour la premi\u00e8re part de quotient familial, major\u00e9e de 3 416 \u20ac pour chaque demi-part suppl\u00e9mentaire&#8221;, with higher figures for the overseas departments. The current text is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000054373249\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000054373249\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1417 CGI<\/a>. A British owner aged seventy-six whose main home is the French house, and whose French <em>revenu fiscal de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence<\/em> (reference tax income) sits under that ceiling, may have a claim. The same person whose main home is in the United Kingdom will struggle to say that the French house is &#8220;l&#8217;immeuble habit\u00e9 par eux&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Where full exemption is unavailable, Service-Public describes a cap: the part of TFPB on the main home that exceeds 50 per cent of the household&#8217;s income can be removed, if the taxpayer was not liable to IFI the previous year and if income stays under the article 1417 II ceilings. Article 1417 II, on the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000054373249\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000054373249\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L\u00e9gifrance page<\/a>, states: &#8220;Les dispositions de l&#8217; article 1391 B ter sont applicables aux contribuables dont le montant des revenus de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e pr\u00e9c\u00e9dant celle au titre de laquelle l&#8217;imposition est \u00e9tablie n&#8217;exc\u00e8de pas la somme de 30 083 \u20ac, pour la premi\u00e8re part de quotient familial, major\u00e9e de 7 029 \u20ac pour la premi\u00e8re demi-part et 5 533 \u20ac \u00e0 compter de la deuxi\u00e8me demi-part suppl\u00e9mentaire, retenues pour le calcul de l&#8217;imp\u00f4t sur le revenu aff\u00e9rent auxdits revenus.&#8221; That cap is a main-home mechanism. It is not a discount for a holiday house, and it is not a substitute for contesting a wrong cadastral value. ANIL, in its public explainer, also reminds owners that vacancy of the dwelling does not, by itself, cancel <em>taxe fonci\u00e8re<\/em>. Service-Public does, however, set out a d\u00e9gr\u00e8vement (a reduction granted after a claim) where a dwelling intended to be let has been vacant for at least three consecutive months for reasons outside the owner&#8217;s control. The claim goes to the tax centre for the place where the property sits. Seasonal and furnished holiday lets are outside that relief. A British owner who cannot find a winter tenant for a g\u00eete should not assume the vacant-home d\u00e9gr\u00e8vement applies.<\/p>\n<p>What the personal exemptions never cover is worth stating in one place. They do not cover TEOM, as Service-Public repeats under the age and Aspa headings. They do not cover a second home. They do not cover IFI. They do not cover the remaining dwelling tax on second homes. They do not cover a British owner who is over seventy-five but whose income, once the article 1417 add-backs are made, sits above the ceiling \u2014 UK pension, UK rental and ISA interest that have to be declared in France once you are a French tax resident will count in that test. The <a href=\"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/british-resident-france-uk-savings-isa-bank-accounts-declare-3916-challenge-brexit\/\">article on UK savings, ISAs and form 3916<\/a> is the place for that declaration. Mixing an exemption file with an undeclared UK account is how a simple local-tax claim becomes a wider audit.<\/p>\n<p>Building-side exemptions are a separate list. Article 1382 of the CGI exempts specified public and similar buildings; it is not the private owner&#8217;s article, but it shows that exemption is always textual. Article 1383, already quoted, is the two-year new-build relief, which a commune may shrink. Energy-renovation exemptions exist in other CGI provisions and in BOFIP commentary; they depend on the works, the dates and a declaration. None of them is triggered by writing to the mairie in English. If the avis shows a completed extension that was never declared to the cadastre, the risk runs the other way: the office can revalue, and the owner who stayed silent may face a corrected base rather than a rebate.<\/p>\n<h3>B. Deadlines, r\u00e9clamation and court if the valuation or the taxpayer is wrong<\/h3>\n<p>The first rule of a French local-tax dispute is the one Service-Public prints in bold: you still pay by the date on the avis, even if you file a <em>r\u00e9clamation<\/em> (a formal claim). You may ask for <em>sursis de paiement<\/em> (a stay of payment) under the ordinary tax-claim rules, but a stay is a separate request, not the automatic effect of disagreeing with the figure. Late payment of built-property tax is not a small courtesy reminder. Article 1730, 1 of the CGI provides: &#8220;Donne lieu \u00e0 l&#8217;application d&#8217;une majoration de 10 % tout retard dans le paiement des sommes dues au titre de l&#8217;imp\u00f4t sur le revenu, des contributions sociales recouvr\u00e9es comme en mati\u00e8re d&#8217;imp\u00f4t sur le revenu, de la taxe d&#8217;habitation sur les r\u00e9sidences secondaires , des taxes fonci\u00e8res sur les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s b\u00e2ties et non b\u00e2ties, des impositions recouvr\u00e9es comme les impositions pr\u00e9cit\u00e9es et de l&#8217;imp\u00f4t sur la fortune immobili\u00e8re.&#8221; Any delay in paying, among other taxes, the taxes on built and unbuilt property attracts a 10 per cent surcharge. Article 1730, 2, a then applies that surcharge &#8220;Aux sommes comprises dans un r\u00f4le ou mentionn\u00e9es sur un avis de mise en recouvrement qui n&#8217;ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 acquitt\u00e9es dans les quarante-cinq jours suivant la date de mise en recouvrement du r\u00f4le ou de la notification de l&#8217;avis de mise en recouvrement, sans que cette majoration puisse \u00eatre appliqu\u00e9e avant le 15 septembre pour les imp\u00f4ts \u00e9tablis au titre de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e en cours&#8221;. Sums on a roll or collection notice unpaid forty-five days after the roll is put into collection, or after notification of the collection notice, are surcharged, but not before 15 September for taxes of the current year. The article is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000051219475\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000051219475\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article 1730 CGI<\/a>. Article 1730, 5 allows up to fifteen extra days for individuals who pay by <em>t\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e8glement<\/em> (online payment). The date printed on your avis is the date that matters. A UK standing order that leaves two days late is still late.<\/p>\n<p>The claim deadline for local taxes is not the income-tax deadline. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000050427870\" class=\"kohen-legifrance-popup-link\" data-kohen-legifrance-url=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/ceta\/id\/CETATEXT000050427870\" data-kohen-legifrance-title=\"Texte officiel Legifrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CE, 9th chamber, 29 October 2024, no. 473319<\/a>, the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat quoted article R. 196-2 of the LPF as follows: &#8220;Pour \u00eatre recevables, les r\u00e9clamations relatives aux imp\u00f4ts directs locaux et aux taxes annexes doivent \u00eatre pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es \u00e0 l&#8217;administration des imp\u00f4ts au plus tard le 31 d\u00e9cembre de l&#8217;ann\u00e9e suivant celle, selon le cas : \/ a) De la mise en recouvrement du r\u00f4le ou de la notification d&#8217;un avis de mise en recouvrement ; \/ b) de la r\u00e9alisation de l&#8217;\u00e9v\u00e8nement qui motive la r\u00e9clamation ; (&#8230;)&#8221;. To be admissible, claims relating to local direct taxes and ancillary taxes must be presented to the tax authority at the latest on 31 December of the year following, as the case may be, the putting of the roll into collection or the notification of a collection notice, or the event that founds the claim. In that case the Versailles administrative court had treated a 2019 assessment as out of time. The Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat held that a claim filed on 24 November 2020, before 31 December of the year after the 2019 roll, was in time under paragraph a. The lesson for a British owner is practical: diary 31 December of the year after the year on the avis, keep proof of filing, and do not wait for an email from the office explaining the 1992 cadastral base. That email is not, without more, a new &#8220;event&#8221; that reopens a year already out of time.<\/p>\n<p>Where to send the claim is the tax centre for the situation of the property, which Service-Public identifies as the address for both ordinary claims and vacant-home d\u00e9gr\u00e8vement. The r\u00e9clamation should say what is wrong in words the office can check against the CGI: wrong redevable (article 1400 and 1404), sale after 1 January that the owner wants recorded for next year (article 1415, with any private apportionment left to the notarial deed), cadastral rental value that no longer matches a distinct use (article 1494), TEOM rate out of proportion to the waste service (article 1520 as read in CE 12 November 2025, no. 501633), or a personal exemption under articles 1390, 1391 and 1417 that the roll ignored. A letter that only says the bill is too high compared with the neighbour is not a legal ground. A letter that attaches the sale deed, the completion declaration, the Aspa award or the floorplan of the knocked-through cottages is.<\/p>\n<p>If the office rejects the claim or stays silent beyond the statutory decision period, the next court is the <em>tribunal administratif<\/em> (administrative court) of the place where the property sits, not a UK tax tribunal and not the judicial court that hears a neighbour dispute. For a Paris flat that court is the Tribunal administratif de Paris. For much of inner \u00cele-de-France it is Paris, Montreuil, Cergy-Pontoise or Versailles, depending on the d\u00e9partement. Those courts apply the same CGI articles as a court in Dordogne; what changes is the local rate on the avis and the practical time it takes to obtain an appointment at the <em>service des imp\u00f4ts des particuliers<\/em> (the individual tax office). A British owner who is only in France for the 90\/180-day visits discussed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/16\/british-second-home-france-schengen-overstay-90-day-ban-challenge-brexit\/\">second-home Schengen article<\/a> should not let the claim period run because the next trip is in the spring. The 31 December date in article R. 196-2 does not move for a Channel crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Valuation litigation is evidence-heavy. The 2025 decision in CE no. 474557 shows the court reading articles 1380, 1388 and 1494 together to decide whether lots in a house are one property or several for cadastral purposes. The 2022 decision in CE no. 438905 shows a first-instance court being censured for failing to answer a plea on how many lots a building should be. Neither decision is a promise that &#8220;my bill is higher than last year&#8221; will succeed. Annual revaluation of cadastral values is built into the system Service-Public describes. The plea that works is a mismatch between the cadastre and the actual, distinct use of the premises, or a TEOM rate that is, in the words of CE no. 501633, &#8220;manifestement disproportionn\u00e9s&#8221; relative to the cost of the waste service. Wrong-person litigation follows article 1404 and the duty stated in CE no. 447507 to put the true redevable on the roll. A British seller and buyer who agreed a private split in the acte de vente still need that roll to name the 1 January owner for the year of sale; the private clause is enforced between them, not against the public accountant.<\/p>\n<p>Competitors&#8217; French pages \u2014 PAP on who pays, BailFacile on calculation and exemptions, ANIL on vacancy \u2014 stop at the domestic landlord. They do not tell a British owner how an avis in a language he does not read sits beside IFI, second-home dwelling tax and a UK tax year, nor how the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat currently reads TEOM and the 31 December claim. That is the gap this article is written to fill. The cheaper file remains the one that pays on time or with a documented stay, claims in time, and argues the article that actually applies.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>French <em>taxe fonci\u00e8re<\/em> is an annual tax on built property situated in France. Article 1380 charges the building. Article 1400 names the owner, or in listed cases the usufructuary. Article 1415 freezes the facts on 1 January and charges for the whole year. Article 1388 builds the base from cadastral rental value minus 50 per cent. Article 1520, as read by the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat on 12 November 2025, adds a waste tax that may appear on the same avis but is not a general budget levy. Personal exemptions in articles 1390 and 1391 are for a main home, with income ceilings in article 1417; they do not shelter a British second home and they do not cancel TEOM. A wrong name is corrected under article 1404, provided the cadastral mutation duties of article 1402 have been met. A claim on local taxes must, under article R. 196-2 of the LPF as applied in CE 29 October 2024, no. 473319, reach the office by 31 December of the following year. Payment, meanwhile, remains due: article 1730 adds 10 per cent after forty-five days, not before 15 September of the tax year. Brexit did not write the British owner out of that code. It left him facing the same roll, the same 1 January, and the same administrative court as any other owner of a wall in France.<\/p>\n<h2>Need a quick opinion on your case<\/h2>\n<p>If you have just received a French <em>avis de taxe fonci\u00e8re<\/em>, cannot match the name or the cadastral value to the house, have been refused an exemption, or face a 10 per cent surcharge, our firm offers a telephone consultation within 48 hours with a lawyer of the firm. Call <a href=\"tel:+33646605822\">+33 6 46 60 58 22<\/a> or write via our <a href=\"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/formulaire-de-contact\/\">contact page<\/a>. The firm advises clients in Paris and \u00cele-de-France as well as British owners throughout France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British owners in France: who pays taxe fonci\u00e8re, how the avis is built, which exemptions apply after Brexit, and how to challenge the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251031309,"featured_media":16490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kj_source_type":"","_kj_official_id":"","_kj_official_url":"","_kj_judilibre_id":"","_kj_jur":"","_kj_lieu":"","_kj_chambre":"","_kj_rg":"","_kj_date":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[80312,80314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-desk","category-decryptage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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