French Administration Guides & Resources

As you may or may not have learnt from our previous blog ‘Get Help With Your French Income Tax Return’, April to June marks the annual French income tax return season. If you’ve been living in France for any period of time, whether or not you’ve actually earnt any income, filling in an income tax return is mandatory. In our previous blog, we provided comprehensive answers to questions that we get all the time regarding tax returns. We also covered circumstances in which filli

Regardless of how simple or complicated your home improvements are… they’ll all require some form of paperwork to be completed either before or after the work. Please note that the information we’re covering in this blog does not refer to changing the internal aesthetic of your property - just the sizing and structure. Prior to starting the home improvement work Right - you’re at the stage where you’re embarking on some home improvements. Before you start anything, it’s impor

This blog is entirely focused on those working in the construction industry in France. If this is your area of expertise and you’re seeking out work, there are a huge number of opportunities available for tradesmen across the country in both rural France, the main cities, and in popular holiday destinations and resorts like Three Valleys where each summer the construction industry goes bonkers! There are three options for individual tradesmen looking for work in France. Simpl

A building Syndic isn’t some scary beast that lives in your basement - although it does sound like something straight out of Monsters Inc. Bare with us, whilst we explain… If you own an apartment, you’ll almost certainly have spaces that you share with your neighbours - likely corridors, car parks, caves, ski lockers and more. In France, these shared spaces are not owned by any one person in the building. They’re owned by a copropriété. This is a term for a collective of peop