Solidarity wealth tax

(Impôt de Solidarité sur la Fortune - ISF)

The solidarity wealth tax A method used to calculate a notaire’s emoluments, costs, disbursements and fees resulting from the application of the scale. Disputes are settled by the department Chamber or court. is levied on individuals' assets All properties, rights and obligations of a person.. It is paid by tax households whose taxable assets exceed a threshold set by law, which is fixed at €1,300,000. Tax households whose net assets are below this level on 1 January are not therefore liable to pay this tax.

• Who is liable to pay the solidarity wealth tax?

  • Individuals who are domiciled in France for tax purposes are, in principle, subject to the solidarity wealth tax, which is levied on all their assets (whether located in France or abroad).

  • Individuals who are domiciled abroad for tax purposes are subject to the solidarity wealth tax, but only with respect to their assets located in France.

• How is the tax levied?

  • The tax is calculated per tax household.

  • A person living alone (single, widowed, divorced or separated) constitutes a tax household in their own right.

  • Married couples form the same tax household and are therefore, in this regard, subject to joint taxation on all of their assets (their own personal assets and assets owned jointly), regardless of which matrimonial property regime they have opted for. There are, however, two exceptions to this principle:
    - When the couple are married under the matrimonial property regime in which the spouses hold their property separately, and when they live separately, each of them will Act by which a person decides how his/her inheritance is to be administered. only be liable for the solidarity wealth tax with respect to their own personal assets;
    - When the couple, in the process of physically splitting up or getting divorced, are authorised to live separately.

  • The following persons are also subject to joint taxation with respect to the solidarity wealth tax on all of their assets (whether jointly owned Act by which a person decides how his/her inheritance (estate) is to be administered. or not):
    - persons who are known to be living as a couple without actually being married;
    - persons who have entered into a civil partnership.

  • NB: assets belonging to minor children are taxable, and therefore must be declared with the assets of their parents who have legal responsibility for administering their assets. They may be divided in equal shares between the two parents when the parents are assessed separately for the solidarity wealth tax while exercising parental authority jointly. However, assets that belong to adult children in their own right are not included with the taxable assets of their parents, even if the children have asked to be attached to their parents' tax household for income tax purposes.

• Which assets are taxable?

  • Subject to certain exemptions, the following types of asset, in the ownership Right of ownership may be divided into two separate rights:Bare ownership, which is the right to dispose of your property as you please, or to modify or destroy it,And usufruct which is the right to use the property or to receive any resulting incomeRead more of the tax household, are subject to the solidarity wealth tax:
    - buildings (houses, apartments, etc.), and land (plots of land, agricultural land, etc.), even if they have been sold during the year. Only the situation on 1 January is taken into account;
    - liquid assets: cash, current accounts, sums held on deposit A sum which, according to law, the notaire must request before any instruments are signed. The sums must be sufficient to cover any costs, dues, disbursements and basic fees as they become due for payment, shareholders' credit accounts, savings passbooks, etc.;
    - non-exempt professional assets;
    - assets held under a usufruct Right of use and right to collect the benefits from the property on which said right is built. The usufructuary may not dispose the property (sell or give).;
    - movables Property that may be moved, including immaterial rights such as shares or stakes. (movables in the residential property and similar items);
    - financial investments, life-insurance policies, receivables, Treasury bonds, etc.;
    - motor vehicles, pleasure boats, private planes;
    - racehorses;
    - jewellery, gold and precious metals;

    Obviously this list is not exhaustive.

• Which assets are exempt?

  • The following types of asset, in particular, are exempt:
    - professional assets, namely items required to carry on the profession that constitutes the principal activity of the taxpayer, or of their spouse, partner in a civil partnership, person with whom they live, or of their minor children. These may be immovables (business premises, agricultural land, medical practice, etc.) or movables (shares in companies, etc.);
    - works of art, collectors' items or antiques (i.e. items more than 100 years old);
    - classic cars more than 25 years old and any vehicle that belonged to a famous person, or which is technically innovative and roadworthy;
    - some income: sums or income received as compensation for personal injury (including when transferred by succession to the surviving spouse or surviving partner in a civil partnership); pensions received after the cessation of a professional activity; royalties; and also income from bearer bonds and shares;
    - shares received as consideration for subscribing to the capital of any SME with a registered office in a member state of the European Union and shares received as consideration for subscribing to certain funds investing in innovation or venture capital mutual funds;
    - up to 3/4 of their value, and under certain conditions: shares in companies that are the subject of a collective undertaking to retain shares for a minimum of two years;
    - up to 3/4 of their value, the securities of the company in which the employees and directors carry out their main activity provided that this activity provides them with more than half of their professional income and undertake to keep them during At least 6 years;
    - up to 3/4 of their value: woods and forests and shares in forestry groups (however, shares in forestry savings companies are not exempt).

• What is the deductible liability?

  • These are the debts owed to the taxpayer as of January 1 of the tax year: borrowing in progress (to the extent of the remaining capital of the taxpayer), tax not yet paid but the operative event is January 1 (tax Income tax, housing tax, property tax, etc.), debts owed to service providers...

• What is the tax scale?

  • When the net value of the taxable assets exceeds €1.3 million, the solidarity wealth tax is calculated in accordance with a graduated scale as follows :

    Fraction of the taxable net value	Rate applicable (%)
    Up to 800 000 €	0 %
    Between 800 000 € and 1 300 000 €	0.50 %
    Between 1 300 000 € and 2 570 000 €	0.70 %
    Between 2 570 000 € andt 5 000 000 €	1 %
    Between 5 000 000 € andt 10 000 000 €	1.25­ %
    Above 10 000 000 €	1.50 %

    A discount mechanism applies to assets with a net value between €1.3 and €1.4 million.

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