There are tons of ways to (legally) avoid taxes in France. However, those ways are not applicable to regular workers. And that may be unfair... You don’t want

There are tons of ways to (legally) avoid taxes in France. However, those ways are not applicable to regular workers. And that may be unfair... You don’t want to pay the (ex-IFS) IFI tax? Doable: just make a real estate company. Want to pay even less tax when you have more than one house? Make two real estate companies and keep them under a holding company (consolidated accounting). You want to pay less real estate income tax? Do the "Loi Pinel" stuff. Too lazy to manage physical real estate? Just buy some SCPI shares (taxes are the same!) You want to make money with stocks without paying tax? Open a "PEA" brokerage account (up to 150k€, not including composed interests) or open an "Assurance Vie" and keep them at least 5/8 years. You can avoid taxes in France. Unfortunately, that’s only for a small fraction of the French people.