Earl Evleth

On 6/06/05 16:59, in article [email protected],
"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:

    > On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:53:35 +0200, Earl Evleth <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >
    >> On 6/06/05 16:26, in article
    >> [email protected] om,
    >> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>> esandman:
    >>>
    >>>> So... can anyone confirm or deny the above? Someone here must understand
    >>>> french taxation...
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> The calculator I mentioned is here:
    >>>
    >>> http://www2.finances.gouv.fr/calcul_...ifie/index.htm
    >>>
    >>> It's not all that difficult if you just need to consider salaries.
    >>>
    >>
    >> I just checked it out, I did not realize that French income taxes were
    >> cheaper in the French Caribbean. On a small income, 25,000 the tax drops
    >> from about 700 to 300 euros, on 50,000 a year, from 4700 to 3400. For
    >> a married couple.
    >>
    >> Obviously the situation becomes more complicated if one has other income
    >> sources. I have an accountant do both my French and US returns, but
    >> that is another issue. I never paid much attention to trying to figure it
    >> out myself so I had not realized one get a special break in the "islands".
    >>
    >> There is no indication they give a special deal for residents of French
    >> Polynesia.
    >
    > What about in French Guiana?

You mean Guyane!

yes they are on the list. If dial up the internet site
it gives three choices

Métropole (which is France proper)

Guadeloupe, Martinique ou Réunion

Guyane


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If you are married, no children and other income except 25,000 a year
the tax in the metropole is 732 euros

if you live in Guadeloupe, Martinique ou Réunion it is 392

Guyana the tax is 174 euros.

The French have a tax philisophy of not giving to the high income
earners much advantages si as the income goes up the amount saved
will decrease, % wise.

With us the issue happens to be topical. At 73, I have a chronic
bronchitis problem so the question arises of moving from Paris
to a warmer climate.

Especially warmer in the winter.

My wife and I have discussed Menton or Aix-en-Provence, or Saint Martin,$
which is attached to Guadeloupe administratively. In fact nowhere in
Europe is warm even in winter, nothing like the Caribbean.

So being French (by naturalization) and American (by birth) we have
a number of choices. Back to America? No, French medical care is better
and cheaper.

We have in fact spent time in Saint Martin and I don't see it as a place to
live. With the tax incentive I might change my ideas.

Earl