I understand that taxe foncière bills for 2024 will be issued from today, according to French media reports…I tried to access my espace particulier to check but the site appears to be down temporarily (I hope!). Media reports suggest increases of about 4% are common…
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The automatic inflationary increase is 3.9%, and then communes can vote for an additional increase. Some, like Annecy, have voted an extra 6% (ie 10% total). Apparently Nice has voted the highest increase.
Mine isn’t online yet, but then I still haven’t even got the avis for income tax
Dreading this because my two years of exemption on the new build have ended and I will be getting a bill this year. Hopefully my income situation can reduce it a bit as after never paying any more than €300/year for past 33 years its going to be a biggie. My son’s FIL in two communes over pays €1200 just on his pool alone without the property added on.
20% increase was mentioned on the main news last night for some places which is going to hit hard. Someone has to pay for all the damage done with riots,vandalism etc.
I am thinking that our bill should be drastically reduced as we are putting up with such an amount of increased traffic on our D road due to work on the RCEA N 79.
We have noise nuisance and the diversion via Monceau les Mines for heavy traffic is so long that many ignore it.
No temporary weight limit has been imposed on our road, which is suffering from the amount of this heavy traffic.
It goes on during the night too.
Hi Folks,
I’m not yet fully moved over (bought the house late last year) so I expect I will get a taxe fonciere bill in the post. The problem is I won’t be there for a couple of months. I don’t think I registered for it but I assume they know that the property has changed hands (?) and will send a bill out in my name (?) in the post.
Are the powers-that-be OK with a late payment?
who checks your letterbox here in France ??
10% seems the usual late-payment charge… unless the Bailiffs are instructed when it will cost more I reckon…
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No-one. I haven’t gotten to know the neighbours well enough yet to ask them to do so on my behalf. They never seem to be home and when they are, they are busy with their own lives.
Is there a way to check what is owed on-line? Can I set up an on-line account?
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Yes you can set up an online account, and if you have a French bank account you can set up the equivalent of a direct debit.
This is the link in english about how to create your personal space. In the body of the text is a link for a form if you don’t have the identifying numbers you need.
https://www.impots.gouv.fr/international-particulier/your-personal-account
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At our last house we had a pool built. When it was completed our increase in fonciere was €200 p.a.
I phoned up to complain, it was after all just a small pool. The functionaire checked my dossier and said that the reason for the increase was because our house was listed as a ruin. Presumably, because we had a pool built the house was now habitable so we have been moved up to the next band of just habitable.
However, if we wished, an inspector could be sent out to verify that we were in the correct band for tax purposes. I said that I would not dream of putting them to so much trouble and quietly put the ‘phone down.
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When you bought it did the notaire have your UK address? In a sea of people getting the bill in their French mailbox when they live in the UK, I actually had the opposite and because I bought just before Christmas and then spent a couple of weeks back in England before moving here permanently the notaire helpfully (
) registered it initially as a second home and so when it was time the TF & TH actually went to my UK address for the people who bought it to pay on my behalf I assume! I only discovered this when visiting the tax office in person and saying “why haven’t I had these bills?” they dug out the ones they’d sent to the UK. The 6 months post redirection was long enough for everything aside from French bureaucracy! So it’s possible that they may send it to your UK address if they have it. But in 2024 an online account is definitely the way to go anyway.
Our Taxe Fonciere bill 2024 has increased by 53 euro… phew, I can cope with that.
Thanks, folks, for your suggestions.
I’m having trouble with trying to progress this on-line so, with the aide of Deepl, I’ve composed a letter which I will send to the Service Des Impots Fonciers (found the address on-line). My printer has, inexplicably, packed up so they will receive a hand-written letter by snail-mail 
My invoice came online this morning, a good €1000 more than I have paid for the past 33 years. Signed up online immediately to pay monthly starting from January 2025 and that was very easy to do. I also took photocopies of every page along the process as proof in case it comes back to bite me on the bum as well as they give you a reference number that must be used with any problems with the TF. Second biggest charge was the ordures, but considering they come every single week and every two weeks for the yellow bin, I suppose I can’t moan and theyhave provided us with new in ground bottle and recycling banks on the lotissement as well this year.
Lucky me, I am 70 years old and I do not have to pay the “taxe foncière”,
I had an email last night notifying me our bill was ready.
Lest anyone get overexcited at the prospect/possibility of NOT paying taxe fonciere… there are various criteria which must be met… (ownership, resources etc)
it’s not simply a question of “oldish age”…
https://www.impots.gouv.fr/particulier/exonerations-et-degrevements
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Wow, I did not know that. I will be 70 next May. Do you have to apply online via the impôt site to register or is it automatic
Yes exactly and they are very thorough in their means testing as I did not bother previously and I am certainly not near the age limit but they wanted value of car, how many TV sets in the house, value of other items etc - very intrusive and for a few euros I did not bother. 70 is not normal unless you have very little income or are ASPA allocataire so as you say, do not get excited.
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However, if someone’s situation does warrant “not paying TF”… that’s fair enough…
so for anyone dithering/worrying about finances and all these bills which come tumbling in…
do talk with someone or check out the impot site… Help might very well be available…
there is a way of paying monthly… check the impots site and have a go… 