France Insider

Inheritance Planning in France

Dec. 17, 2021, 1:23 p.m.

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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.

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.

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