News | Interface Financial Planning Limited France axes plans to tax holiday home Brits Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:51:00 +0100. French authorities have dropped proposals to tax foreign and expat second home ...
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Could this news just released have any effect on Bulgaria and expats

I believe the Bulgarian government would have faced the same problems as the French government in imposing this.

Whilst the law was approved by parliament in France, president Sarkozy obviously thought that to impose it could potentially have been political suicide and called it off (he needs the votes!).

Also, Sarkozy wasn't even sure that the EU would ever have allowed such a tax on the basis that it was applicable only to one group of people (and this 'tax' doesn't exist in any other EU country).