Okay, thanks, I understand:)
Hello Finn
I don't understand how that can be done, to stop and then start again. I started this AE and then left France for about a year, and therefore terminated it, and when I came back, I signed up again, but I did not start anew, my file was reopened, so to speak; same numbers, same everything. So, when you say start a new activity, you mean a different line of work altogether? Or?
Here are the figures from the FEDAE site
2% de plus pour les activités de vente, portant la cotisation à 14% du chiffre d'affaires
3 % de plus pour une activité libérale, portant la cotisation à 21, 3% du CA
3,3% de plus pour les activités de service et artisanales, portant le taux à 24,6%
Brilliant Finn, you should work for the Government. In the end, is it worth bothering unless you deal in cash only? I thought the main idea of AE was to bring people into the income tax regime rather than them working on the black. Most of my design work is on the computer so only a small cost there - 8 year old computer, even older software but printing costs to show ideas to clients are quite high. With my paintings, the cost of paints and canvas but quite a high markup. Gite, chambre d'hote - 76% taken out for costs. then income tax due on the rest. the social charge this year seemed to be quite quite small in relation to turn over.
We housed a large family of 10 Algerians last year for a month from an organisation in Pau, who appeared to have very little. When they had been here for a couple of days, they went off and returned a bit later with a large white van from which they proceeded to unload a lot electrical equipment, mainly computer based. Several of them went off and returned with cars into which the equipment was loaded then off they went again. This carried on for the time they were with us. By the time they were collected in a minibus the van and all the cars had disapeared. A couple of weeks later we saw them in Emmaus and had a friendly chat. They had been moved back to Pau which was much more convenient for them as it was nearer to Emmaus. That kind of entrepeneurial spirit is what keeps a country going!
Somehow I think I must qualify for being an idiot, as although I can agree logically with the thrust of your argument, I think my emotive side does not. Brian refers back to Carol's post and that was the one that did raise my ire as it contained a litany of her 'house in 'Royal Berkshire, with acres of land etc., etc' and then went on as I read it to compare and denigrate France.
I showed the post to my French wife, whose reaction was exactly the same as mine - although more politely phrased as 'what is she doing here?' I suggest, although I don't know, that this would have been the reaction of most Nationals on the receiving end of such comments.
Re. Birmingham v. London. Haven't you heard of the North/South divide in the UK? (smile, but it exists)
Believing we should think of ourselves as home (via the EU) is surely a bit presumptuous? Being fluent in a language, say French, does not make one a Frenchman or Frenchwoman, and living in the country also doesn't do that. Taking up Nationality helps, but I believe we are what we were born to, and like Brian I too regard myself as International. However wherever I have been I have still been regarded as an Englishman.
I don't have the erudition or education of either yourself or Brian, and being born of a single parent in Slough during World War Two didn't leave us many options regarding a future, and also being subject to many social prejudices along the way. Maybe this is why I am sensitive to the way other people feel and think? Again it would take a better-educated brain than mine to figure that out.
My main thrust was that we should respect our host country, and yes I totally agree that some issues in the public arena are fair comment, I still maintain we should show some caution and consideration that's all.
However I think I have exhausted all I have to say on this particular subject and have noted it is again drifting away from the issue at hand, for which I apologise.
Cheers.
Hi there,
I have just registered as an 'auto-entrepreneur at Pau, and I asked about 'The destruction of this scheme' in 2013 - I was told quite emphatically (by two different persons) that the only thing that will happen will be a rise of 3% of the social charges, the tax level at 1.7% (for me) will remain the same. The entire structure and process of the scheme will remain as it is now ...
Just thought I would mention this ...
Kind regards,
Phil Ross
You should be able to post a link Amber - use the link tab.
I think you may find that Ciel (Sky) is a subsidiary of Sage in the UK. They have many small business software packages and this one will be French specific.
Have to agree, we use Ciel for AE, it is free and very good for those of us who need to keep more detailed accounts for our own purposes. For example I will hit the plafond this year, so need to know how much my outgoings are compared to my income so I can decide which regime to go for. I also need to know where I am spending too much and need to cut back.
On the other hand Amber, your husband should be declaring everything that goes through his bank account. As an AE he can not deduct materials, he should be declaring them at a lower rate in the sales side of the declaration. Or asking the clients to buy them, which is what my husband does.
The AE status doesn't give you the possibility to deduct expenses. This is why builders usually don't use it and become artisans instead. The way round it is to have the client buy the supplies, but for tools and so.... it's a problem
Just wondered what the logiciel is that he uses
Hi Amber. What program does your husband use and is it on the web? Thanks
Finn, that is worthy of being a blog in its own right. To quote myself on Carol Norwell's post about why people chose to live here:
'Carol, as much as I say I am a Scot I do not have that 'fixed' need to belong feeling. I had my early years in Germany, then England, then another part of England, Peru, Germany again (another part at that), French Switzerland, Italian Switzerland, Norway, Wales, Portugal, France, the Netherlands and all the countries I have worked in that came with the job and what I feel is simply that I am an internationalist who wants all of these ridiculous artificial boundaries knocked down and they we are allowed to simply get on with life wherever we put our feet.'
The things you say about the intimate sphere and so on develop on and beyond that. So, in short this is my home and I do not like government rocking the boat I am in, which is what this budget could do. As for idiots, well they can go to do what the Hell they like, as long as it is not in front of my eyes and if it happens to be parliamentarians on TV, I have the choice of switching it off.
Boom, boom!
Norman, newspapers have taken such a dive globally it is shocking. I clearly do not sit here day in, day out reading them but I have English (UK, USA, etc), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and some other language online version papers bookmarked. A very few, for instance Der Spiegel, have maintained a reasonable standard but overall the bridge between left and right is narrow, the standard set by D.C. Thompson comics in some cases and that is only the good ones.
Letterman, have no idea what he set out to acheive. The USA is not interested in a Brit, he came across as sadly inadequate (even John Major would have managed the 'quiz' that well/badly). Hausfrau Merkel had long years of SED rehearsal for this, preceded as an FDJ member in her youth. Her Leipzig qualifications in physics and chemistry show she is of once party favoured status and whilst her family were amongst the few able to go back and forth between East and West Germany she was no fool with regard to opportunism. That is her gift (Gift in German means poison in English by the way). She has lead the likes of Sarko by the nose and Hollande is half way in. Why the UK (England especially) does not fall to her hypnosis is simply that they are as arrogant as each other as nations which keeps them at arm's length. Between them they are causing the very tension that is helping undermine what should be a united Europe and naieve souls like the French have a thousand years of history keeping them from aligning with the UK. Between the three of them they have contributed more than appears to be the case to the general woes and when the rest go down will go with them, which Cameron refuses to acknowledge, Merkel knows but keeps quiet and France is being lead into in carpet slippers by Hollande.
Name anybody, anywhere to dig anybody out of this ever deepening hole? The USA is on the road to making it deeper, so nothing on offer there. Conclusion, bum on armchair and watch it all happen here. At least French protests and demonstrations are more entertaining and convincing than most others - did it in the 60s and people have lost that 'je ne said quoi' of the period when protest brought change...
Hi Brian, obviously you are an early riser like me.
I agree with you completely, and on all fronts. I don't think anyone complains about reasoned debate and/or contribution, but it really is the whingeing that gets right up my nose.
Re. Politicians. It is a worldwide phenomena as far as I can see. There are no politicians of any stature anywhere in my view, and I fear it is the influence of media and the cult of 'personality' that have created what we now have. Far more important to look good than anything else.
I saw a clip of David Cameron on the US Comedy Show ' David Letterman', and just wondered what the Hell was he doing there? But they are all the same aren't they - although Merkel doesn't seem to bother too much on that score.
However the media has dumbed down everyone, even the so-called best of them. I take the online Telegraph and Independent plus the Economist and The New York Times, and even in these I wonder sometimes if I am not reading the Sun or Daily Mail. I stopped reading the Times, and the Sundays used to be a delight to my weary eyes have plummetted in journalistic standards.
Ah to be a young buck of 64 again - those were the days! (I think, if I remember correctly, wait a minute where DID I leave my brain, I know I had it somewhere?)
Norm, imagine what great value the CIA World Factbook has for an anthropologist. Says nothing about the people in power that we don't already know, but there is a list of languages, ethnic groups and so on to give a quick insight. I too have used it very often.
Living in another country does not exclude taking part in public debate. If people are discontented and the same affects one then there is no reason to not join in. I do. But people who whinge and put where they are living down as inferior to their country of origin or maintain the endless list of comparatives that could be ranked in two columns, assigned points and 'home' will always win... Well, same initials as Foreign Office their starter! Apart from anything else, once away five and more years they have no real idea what it is like back in their 'paradise' that they bailed out of of their own choice.
Sure, France is in an almight mess right now, some of us would like to help straighten it out rather than ruffle feathers. Hollande, like Cameron if one must compare (and the list could grow to include other nations), is wrong and about as unpopular as any human being could be. Trouble is, as a very observant politics follower, there is nobody better right now. On the right there is as much harm waiting to be done, on the left no better and down the middle it is just a grey mess. As much as I admire German politicians since 1945 with a few notable exception, Frau Merkel does not score high with me, hers is an Old Mother Hubbard approach that one day will economically have no bone left for her dogs. But then, I am a mere 64 in a couple of weeks, young and have much to learn that these whippersnappers will tell me is all wrong.
Know what I mean, eh mate?
I bow to your knowledge Brian, but somehow the bombing bit does have some sort of appeal doesn't it? Oops shouldn't say that should I?
Well, kind of a moot point, anarchy as the word was first used by Proudhon was intended as an expression of a form of social(ist) action to break the old order, not entirely undermine society and turn it into a chaotic disorder, which is the A in O generation's version of anarchy. Thus, it refers to a society without a publicly enforced government (e.g. after the French Revolution, combinations of royalty, aristocracy and elite or the likes of the Soviet regime) or violently enforced political authority (NSDAP Germany, most military regimes) but never intended to imply political disorder.
It is Kantian in essence, whereby Kant named these four kinds of government:
A Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy)
B Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism)
C Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism)
D Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)
CFGT seems to have drifted right off track along with the PS away from all notions of socialism toward a D type of government where taxes supplant actual violence.