17th December 2021
Death and taxes may well be unavoidable, but when they come together it is not surprising that if we cannot cheat death, most of us want to at least be able to cheat the taxman. UPDATED April 2024.
Being potentially liable for French inheritance tax is arguably a nice problem to have, for if your successors have a liability it probably means that you have left them to enjoy a reasonably comfortable future.
In practice, for most households, there is little if anything to be concerned about, for there is no inheritance tax between man and wife or those in a civil partnership, and there is an allowance for children of €100,000 per parent per child. Accordingly, in a family of four, there will be no inheritance tax liability to the children on net assets up to €400,000.