Working from France for a UK employer means France taxes your salary directly — there's no credit to neutralise it the way frontier-worker income gets. Here's the box that applies, and the bigger compliance issue most people miss.
Read guide →strategies and pitfallsThere's no box that auto-fills this one for foreign pension income — you have to calculate and apply it yourself, or you'll quietly overpay income tax on your UK pension every year.
Read guide →strategies and pitfallsYour UK Government Service Pension pays zero French income tax — but the full gross amount still counts toward the figure France uses to decide your CAF eligibility, property tax relief, and social charges band.
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French paperwork is famous for its friction, but my professional life has always been about the opposite: finding the most efficient way through a mess. I've taken two decades of experience navigating the French system and applied my IT background to build a clearer path forward.
My goal is to provide the clarity I wish I'd had when I arrived 22 years ago. By stripping away the friction of French tax and finance, I'm sharing the insights and shortcuts I would have taken then, to make your life simpler now.