 L'impôt à la source  France is set to get a simplified tax system this year which will see income tax taken automatically at source (à la source) rather than the following year after the individual annual declarations. Fiche de paie  France's payslips are notoriously complicated. They can stretch to 40 lines of text of gobbldygook, but the good news is that they're working to make it simpler. Read more here.   France is making life simpler for businesses, including making the payslips more readable. Photo: Screengrab BFMTV Mutuelle  This is a top up health insurance that, depending on the size of your company, is normally offered to you automatically. It basically means that your everyday health costs in France, like going to a doctor the huge the prescription they normally give you, will all be covered.