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🇫🇷 French Inheritance Tax Calculator
What one heir pays, using 2026 rates
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Inheritance tax here is charged per heir on what each one receives, not on the estate as a whole.
Entirely exempt from inheritance tax in France. Note this does not apply to an unmarried partner without a PACS, who is taxed at 60%.
Life insurance passes outside the estate under its own regime, with a large per-beneficiary allowance for premiums paid before the policyholder turned 70.
Estimated tax
Exempt from inheritance tax in this relationship.
Breakdown
Filing deadline
6 months from a death in France, 12 months if the death occurred abroad.
Worth knowing before you rely on this
- A notaire must handle the estate where it includes real estate, a will or a marriage contract.
- Children are protected by the réserve héréditaire: one half of the estate with one child, two thirds with two, three quarters with three or more.
- A surviving spouse chooses between a quarter of the estate outright and the whole estate in usufruct where all the children are common.
- This is a simplified estimate for one heir. Business, farm and main-home reliefs, disability allowances and lifetime gifts all change the answer. Get advice before filing.
Your estimate: €0. A specialist inheritance adviser in France routinely saves families more than their own fee, through reliefs and elections this estimate cannot apply. Free quote →
What this is based on
2026 rates · impots.gouv.fr, droits de succession
Rules and rates change. This tool gives you an informed starting point and the legal references to check, it is not legal or tax advice, and it does not replace a professional where money or deadlines are at stake.
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