Anyone else lived in France? We have it easy here...when I was living there each pay slip I got each month with something like 35 deductions listed out, from basic council style tax all the way through to taxes for 'social enjoyment'
Then of course I had to save some of my earnings to pay income tax the following year which is paid one year in leau of earning, which is estimated three times during the following year, which you have to pay each time, so on first estimate (you pay it out in three installments), I start paying it off, then they adjust it, so installments change, then assessed again and sometimes I have overpaid so I have to fill out about five forms to get the rebate, the following year.
I left France in 2009, I still get sent demands for income tax for working in France in 2010 when I queried it with the French tax department they told me not to worry, they don't know how to stop it in the system, just ignore it
Believe me, you don't know how easy we have it here