Is living abroad all it is cracked up to be ?

You are so right Fennel I rang up the other day to book tickets for tomorrow's bank holiday event. When I gave my name the man said ' ah oui, les Anglais a (village name).

I don’t understand why some of you were paying taxes in both countries. We only paid income tax in Holland not in the UK. The two countries have reciprocal rights. We could have chosen to pay British NI and Dutch but that was optional. We paid UK tax on any profit we made from renting our UK house out but that was all.

We pay tax globally dragonfly
UK taxes taken into consideration when our tax in France is worked out.

Pensions which derive from government, local government, military etc have to be taxed in the UK. I pay UK tax on at source on my occupational pension and French tax on my state pension. The tax I have paid in the UK is offset against my French tax allowance so I don't pay tax twice on the same amount.