Fri Apr 13 11:23:03 CEST 2007

France: Heaven of paperscratchers and penpushers

Tax time has come.

Narelle is self-employed, which means she has to deal directly with all the administration. And by 'she', I mean 'I'.

So as a quick remainder, we deal with 4 organisations regularly: RAM (health insurrance), CIPAV (pension), URSSAFF (Social security type thing), and RSI (Social security type thing... not sure how they are different from URSSAFF). Apparently for taxation we need to declare Narelle's income to RSI, and some others I may have forgotten, and of course (?) Inland Revenue. Now, for Inland revenue, Narelle's income is part of the "family revenue" which is composed of my income, Narelle's, and any other revenue we may have (share dividends, bank errors in our favour and so on).

Family income is declared on a famous 2042 form. This form has an appendix 2042C for self-employed people like Narelle. We're supposed to fill it in first, and the rest of the taxation shall be deduced from that. And by 'the rest', I mean RSI's. RSI's form actually tell you to look up figures in your 2042C. 2042C shall be available on May 1st. RSI's form is due for May 1st.

Wait a minute. How do I do this again?