Tag: expat taxes
Filing Taxes in France: Our First-Hand Experience
Spring has sprung here in France, and that means it’s officially tax season. We arrived last year, so we’re now required to tackle one of the last big tasks of settling: the French tax return. With our American filing out of the way, we recently dove into a whole new world and tax system. While…
Early Retirement Abroad and US Tax Strategy
As Americans living overseas, we now get the joy of filing two tax returns every year: French and US. While expat taxes can be quite complex, the US-France tax treaty keeps things fairly simple for us. We’ve now finished our second tax year abroad, finished our US filing, and we’re getting ready to file our…
New French Healthcare Taxes Expected for Visitor Visa Holders
American Retirees are getting targeted specifically by French regulators on this one. While the new tax will likely apply to anyone from a non-EU country (except those like the UK with bilateral healthcare agreements) on a VLS-TS visiteur visa, the heat is specifically on Americans like us. The goal is to plug the €23 billion…
