France has some strict rules on inheritance, especially when it comes to children. But there are also clear provisions on leaving money to charity, especially any charities outside France, as well as special tax rates.
Figuring out French admin can be tricky - especially as more and more procedures move online - but you might be able to get your questions answered with in-person assistance at a 'France Services'.
If you're stuck in a French bureaucracy quagmire, there is one document that might be able to get you out. Here's how the attestation works and how to get one.
You may have heard that you need to carry your ID card with you at all times in France - but is this actually true and what can happen if you don't have any?
A specialty French cheese has provoked a cross-Atlantic row after US customs officials refused to allow almost a tonne of it into the country, citing concern over “allergies”.
An almighty row has broken out after French bureaucrats told the country’s top baguette maker he couldn’t open seven days a week. But a French union chief tells The Local the country’s notorious rules are spot on and not at all complicated.
Opening a bank account in a new country is always confusing, and even more so if you’re not fluent in the language. The types of accounts, fees and jargon are likely to be different, and there are extra challenges for newcomers in setting up an account in France, as Jill Starley-Grainger explains.
When you're navigating French bureaucracy, or more recently the Covid-related rules, you often come across the 'déclaration sur l'honneur' - but what does this actually mean?
I used to do a joke on stage and it went like this, writes Ian Moore. “As far as I can tell the aim of Brexit is to end the freedom of movement for British people but continue the freedom of movement for British goods and services.
A 58-year-old French woman, who was wrongfully declared dead in a long-running dispute with a former employee, goes to court on Monday in the city of Lyon to try resurrect her existence.
France has a longstanding reputation for being a nightmare for bureaucracy and red tape. But is it deserved? Our readers told us whether they think it's just an old, tired cliché or if there really is truth to the stereotype.
The French inventor of a record-breaking jet-powered hoverboard (see amazing video) says he will reluctantly have to leave France after being summoned to a local police station and informed he must stick to the rules (which haven't actually been written yet).
The French government’s efforts to make our lives easier stepped up a pace on Wednesday as dozens of further measures were announced as part of a “simplification shock”.
As France has just rung in the new year, The Local offers readers a glimpse of what changes came into force on January 1, 2015, from energy bills and ticket prices to welfare benefits and wages.
France, notorious for its jungle of red-tape, has apparently been undersserving of some of that criticism. A new report ranks France as the best country in Europe when it comes to online government services.
In a long-awaited proposal to trim France’s notorious bureaucracy, President Francois Hollande unveiled on Tuesday a plan to cut the number of French regions by a third. But will the reform actually help a struggling France?
A decades-old plan to cut the number of French regions in half has once again reared its head and prompted a fierce row. The Local talks to two experts to find out whether a seemingly sensible move to cut bureaucracy will ever happen and whether it will do any good.
The agency behind France's census was left red-faced this week after sending out a letter to a French citizen who died almost 200 years ago. As if that wasn't bad enough, the recipient was none other than Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Click here to see for yourself.
A French motorist got a nasty shock recently, after receiving a €25,000 bill from the state for road damage caused by a serious car crash in April 2012, in which he was rear-ended by a speeding, hit-and-run driver.
France is to launch a series of "modernisation" measures on Wednesday aimed at simplifying its dreaded bureaucracy and make life easier for the public. From driving penalty points to restaurant tickets, here’s a breakdown of the main changes.
As France reacts furiously to claims that the US spied on its embassy in Washington, D.C., a Transatlantic spat of a different stripe has been brewing. US officials have effectively banned the beloved mimolette cheese, labelling it “putrid” and “unfit for food.”
