Subsidy for Green energy

[LePort]

If you are a tax payer in France, you can get up to 50% subsidy on green energy installations. I am installing Geothermal heating which is eligible for a subsidy, but am not a French tax payer - does anyone know if it is still possible to get a subsidy?

[Bevdeforges]

If this is the ANAH subsidy you're talking about, there is information here about how to apply for it: Subventions de l'ANAH - Service-public.fr

On a quick scan I see no mention of having to be a taxpayer in France - though if you're installing this in your own home, it has to be your "primary residence" which could rule you out. (I.e. you would have to be resident in France, which means you would by definition be a taxpayer.)

You may want to contact the agency they mention that appears to be doing the subsidies.
Cheers,
Bev

[LePort]

Thanks for this, Bev, I'll look into it. Retirement means I will not be a French tax payer.

Thanks again,

David

[Bevdeforges]

Originally Posted by LePort

Retirement means I will not be a French tax payer.

Uh, that may not be the case. AFAIK retirement benefits, whether from France or elsewhere, have to be declared on French income tax forms. If you are resident in France you are expected to file a tax declaration, no matter your nationality. Now, about half of the people who file declarations wind up paying no tax, but they are still considered "contribuables" (i.e. taxpayers).

If you pay taxes on your retirement benefits somewhere else, you still are supposed to declare them, and then there is a special line for indicating where you pay taxes on them so that you can be given a credit (at French rates).
Cheers,
Bev

[LePort]

Interesting ... I'm currently emplyed in the UK, not a French resident, but planning to retire in France in the next few years. The house will become my primary residence, but not for a couple of years. The renovation is starting now, and what prompted my interest was the 50% "éligible au crédit d’impôt
dans le cadre de la loi de finance 2005/2009 destinée
à encourager l’acquisition d’équipements utilisant
les énergies renouvelables et à financer les dépenses
d’équipement de l’habitation principale"

Thanks for your help,

David

[Bevdeforges]

Ooh, that doesn't sound too promising. When they do these credits via the tax declaration, it usually means you do have to have some tax to offset in order to profit from it.

I know there has been a credit for the last few years for buying a new fangled energy efficient car (a hybrid or one of those LPG powered ones) if you get your old car crushed. It's a significant tax credit, but as my husband and I have not had much in the way of taxes these last couple of years, it's not worth considering upgrading my old car since we don't have enough taxes to claim the credit against.
Cheers,
Bev

[giantpanda]

Originally Posted by LePort

If you are a tax payer in France, you can get up to 50% subsidy on green energy installations. I am installing Geothermal heating which is eligible for a subsidy, but am not a French tax payer - does anyone know if it is still possible to get a subsidy?

Hi!

If 50% is valid for geothermal energy , it will in other cases very much depend on the the nature of the investment.

There are several helps:

1. Crédit d'impôts i.e. you can up to certain sum claim this over your normal income tax declaration. But ,

- only for your primary residence,

- only for for material which is installed by a firm,

- only for the material value,

and not for the work, and there is a limited amount you can claim over a period of 5 years 2009 to 2009) according to whether you are married or pacsés.

Further as quoted you can get a help from the ANAH ( you need the OK before you start ), but this depends where you live.


So in your case you can not claim for a subsidy, but it would be worth while doing it now if you consider what obligations are coming in time, following the Grenelle de l'Environment.

Yours,

giantpanda

[LePort]

Thanks for the information ...