How can I cancel my titre de sejour and carte vitale?

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Thank you Karen. Much useful info here. Yes, I had an S1. I have just had a communication via the Impots website to say that I will be refunded part of the social security tax payment: the CGS-CRDS component (9.7% of income). This leaves the PREL-SOL component non-refunded. I Googled PREL-SOL and this brought up a useful website bh-assurances.fr/tax-information where it is explained as follows:

The French government has changed the law regarding social charges. Before last year, the global rate for social charges in total was 17.2%. It was then composed of 5 different types of tax). One of them is called Solidarity levy and it was at a rate of 2%. This social charge is to help for French pensions so nothing to do with French health system.

Therefore, even if you are under an S1 and therefore should not pay social charges, you will have to pay the ā€œprelevement de SolidaritĆ©- Prel Sol. However, now the rate is 7.5% instead of the 2% is last year!! Good measure for French people as this tax is only applied to capital gain/interest/rental income and not on income from pension or salary but bad news for people who are not affiliated to the French health system or are under the S1 system (meaning the UK reimbursed CPAM for your health expenses in France). Now the rate is CSG at 9.2%, CRDS at 0.5% and Prel Sol at 7.5%.

So, as my tax is on rental income, I suppose there is no way of avoiding the 7.5% for PRE-SOL. Any suggestions on how one can avoid this welcome!

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Karen, thank you for mentioning that
ā€œFrance has their own list of things like certain expenses for the property you can offset to reduce that income for tax purposesā€

I did not do this (it was my first year at this lark). So, going forward I need to. Would you be able to point me towards that official tax list and guidance on how to offset expenses?

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My declaration was as a non-resident to SIP Non-Residents, Noisy-le-Grand. It is they who I am in communication with via the Impots website. They explain nothing!

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There is a govt newsletter ā€œBercy Infosā€ whch issues updates on new rules or restates important rules and in tax season also sends out some updates and extra on specific areas that is useful if you live here.

I saw this sort of info in the small print of the notes attached for guidance to my paper tax return. I have also seen articles in magazines from time to time such as 60millions and Que Choisir but Iā€™d expect the more purely financial magazines to run articles that are quite detailed on this topic area each year. As rental property is one of the main investment areas and as you know in France everything comes down to tax.

So Iā€™d prepare a draft then would finalise after tax reporting season opens as there are some changea to the rules each year and your type of income might be affected.

Perhaps someone who is renting out property here might be able to give a link where an official list could be found ?