MOBILE phone antennae and electricity pylons may be taxed as the government looks for ways to boost its budget after the business-based taxe professionnelle is scrapped.
Almost 50,000 phone masts acr…
0 Read MoreSIX unions are calling for a day of protest action on October 7.
The move is in connection with a worldwide day of action for ?decent work,? being called for by the International Trade Union Confed…
0 Read MoreHOUSEHOLDS could benefit from a cut in income tax to compensate for a new levy on carbon emissions from next year.
Prime Minister François Fillon said a tax reduction was ?one of the preferred opti…
0 Read MoreTAX-PAYERS in France who have bank accounts in other countries have been urged to come clean about them to the tax authorities.
Budget minister Eric Woerth believes between 100,000 and 150,000 people…
0 Read MoreA RESTAURANT owner claims his rivals subjected him to a campaign of bullying for passing a VAT cut on to his customers.
Philippe Brusa, who runs a sushi restaurant in Thonon-les-Bains in the Haute-Sa…
0 Read MoreSWINE flu is growing in France at a rate of 20,000 new cases each week, according to unofficial figures that have not been endorsed by the French government.
The Groupes Régionaux d?Observation de …
0 Read MoreHUNDREDS of millions of cut-price bottles of wine go on sale this month as all of the major supermarket chains unveil their annual Foire aux Vins.
Carrefour is the first of the retail giants to launc…
0 Read MoreNICOLAS Sarkozy has been accused of deliberately picking short people to appear alongside him in TV footage when he attends public events.
The claim, which has been strongly denied by the president’s…
0 Read MoreCIGARETTE prices are due to rise 6% next month – making an average price of ?5.60 a packet from October 5.
It is the first price rise for two years and has come directly from tobacco manufacturers w…
0 Read MorePATIENTS staying in hospital may have to pay an extra ?4 a day next year
Putting up the forfait hospitalier is one of the ideas being considered by the government to help reduce a social security de…
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