Hi there,
I've gotten a verbal offer and am in the process of evaluating two jobs, one that would keep me in the UK, and one that would have me move to Paris.
I'm having a tough time getting my head around a lot of the information out there, but the main thing is, how much money do I take home from a paycheck. I found this Salary tax calculator, but despite a fairly good skill with French, I'm having a tough time believing what it is telling me. For a salary of 90k EUR per year, which is in the ballpark of what I expect to be offered, it is showing a figure titled: Impôt sur les revenus of 11485 EUR. This seems awfully low. I do get that you actually do report and then pay taxes the following year, but is this right? Can I really expect to take home around 78k EUR of this salary range?
Then, of course, the next question: how much do I set aside.
I've also heard of some trick that all French do at a certain time to make their income, or bank account appear smaller in order to pay a lower tax rate each year.
This sounds all too much like the complicated bizarre tax code of the U.S. that I left behind when we moved to the UK. Is there a "Comment faire pour vivre en France pour les nuls" book?
I've gotten a verbal offer and am in the process of evaluating two jobs, one that would keep me in the UK, and one that would have me move to Paris.
I'm having a tough time getting my head around a lot of the information out there, but the main thing is, how much money do I take home from a paycheck. I found this Salary tax calculator, but despite a fairly good skill with French, I'm having a tough time believing what it is telling me. For a salary of 90k EUR per year, which is in the ballpark of what I expect to be offered, it is showing a figure titled: Impôt sur les revenus of 11485 EUR. This seems awfully low. I do get that you actually do report and then pay taxes the following year, but is this right? Can I really expect to take home around 78k EUR of this salary range?
Then, of course, the next question: how much do I set aside.
I've also heard of some trick that all French do at a certain time to make their income, or bank account appear smaller in order to pay a lower tax rate each year.
This sounds all too much like the complicated bizarre tax code of the U.S. that I left behind when we moved to the UK. Is there a "Comment faire pour vivre en France pour les nuls" book?