Taxpert

French Tax and Financial Life

Simplify your French finances with tools and guides from someone who's lived it for 20 years. Built for expats, by someone who's walked in your shoes.

Beta version — free to testFor individual filers — professional licensing coming soon

Currently UK income guidance only

Tools

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Tax Filing Assistant

Guided filing with a personalised PDF output.

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French Tax Estimator

Income tax + social charges — PFU vs progressive.

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Treaty Lookup

Dividend & interest tax credit rates by country.

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Client Data Collection

Clean income summaries for accountants and advisers.

Latest guides

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Your Total French Tax Bill: A Worked Example Combining Income Tax and Social Charges (2026)

Income tax and social charges are calculated separately — but you want to know the one number that actually leaves your pocket. Here's a full worked example across five real UK expat scenarios.

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CAF Benefits in France: What UK Expat Families Can Claim (2026)

If you have children and you're legally resident in France, you're almost certainly entitled to something from the CAF — including family allowance, childcare support, and back-to-school grants. Here's what UK expat families can claim and how your income affects the amount.

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France Income Tax Rates and Bands: How They Work for UK Expats (2026)

France uses a sliding scale of five income tax bands — similar to the UK's basic, higher, and additional rates, but calculated on your whole household, not individually. Here's exactly how the 2026 rates work.

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Founder story

Why Taxpert?

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.