Crit’Air Criteria – in order to reduce urban pollution, petrol cars, vans and motorhomes first-registered before 1997 and diesels prior to 2001 are banned in certain areas of several major towns, with more to follow.
Summer is a great time to be in the P-O but it does also seem to bring out ill-intentioned people trying to ‘arnaquer’ (take advantage of) others.
Learn this useful vocab to tell the scammers to get lost – with varied degrees of politeness!
Despite widespread relief that the predicted electoral victory for the extreme right did not materialise, they made substantial gains, and there are choppy waters ahead for France.
A new scam with the more pricey parcels goes as follows.
French inheritance laws and taxes are radically different from those in the UK, US and other English-speaking countries…..
In this scam, the caller, a woman spoke French with a foreign accent, and said she was from the EDF.
The online service to file your 2023 tax return is NOW OPEN. The deadlines for online declarations vary depending on the département where you live. For us here in the Pyrénées-Orientals (66), the final deadline is 11.59pm on 6th June 2024.
Be extra vigilant especially when entering & exiting larger retail stores in the region.
I was told by an Orange help desk person that he would call back Monday morning to confirm the progress made in dealing with our problem.