In fact, the shopping part may cost a lot to travel now. If you go to France, there are many places waiting for you to go shopping. There are some good shopping places in France, and you can also learn about the tax refund strategy when shopping. Shopping location recommendation

1. Galeries Lafayette in Paris

Since the end of 2119, Galeries Lafayette in Paris has always maintained a keen sense of commodity selection, keeping up with the trend of the times and constantly bringing forth new products. From top luxury goods to fashionable mass brands, there are all kinds of goods, which are deeply loved by customers at different levels.

Galeries Lafayette Paris, located on Boulevard

Hausmann in the center of Paris, is the largest department store in Europe, with a business area of 71,111 square meters, where you can find the most fashionable and avant-garde goods.

The carved dome of New Byzantine, which was built in 1912, is world-famous and a must-see attraction when you come to Paris. In addition, you can also play around the shopping mall in all directions, look up at the dome in the center of the main hall, climb the terrace on the top floor and take a 361-degree view of the city of Paris.

business hours: women's clothing store, men's clothing store and home store: 9:31-21:11 from Monday to Saturday (extended to 21:11 on Thursday); Food World: 8:31-21:31 from Monday to Saturday. See official website for store information.

mode of transportation: subway lines 7 and 9: Chausseed'Antin-Lafayette station. RERA:Auber station, Rere: Hausmann

ST-Lalazare station.

2. Champs Elysé es

The Champs Elysé es starts from Place de la Concorde in the east and ends at Place de Gaulle in the west. It is the most beautiful and largest street in Paris, with a total length of 2.5 kilometers. Xiang Street is divided into two sections. Walking westward from Concorde Square leads to the eastern section of the Champs Elysé es, which is dominated by tree-lined walking. On both sides of the road, there is a large area of green space that is rare in the city center, and all the way west is the western section of the Champs Elysé es, which is a world-famous advanced shopping area in Paris and even in the world.

Romantic and popular, many rich ladies and stars like to come here for shopping. The dazzling display windows on the Champs Elysé es Avenue are filled with all kinds of fashionable clothes, high-grade jewelry, brand-name purses and all kinds of fine products, which are overwhelming. LV, Cartier, Dior, Chloe and other high-end brands are located in this street.

business hours: Champs Elysé es is open all day, but the business hours on the street are different.

mode of transportation: take the M1, M2 and M6 subway lines or the RER

A subway line and get off at Charles-de-Gaulle-étoile station. You can start from the Arc de Triomphe. Take M1 and M9 subway lines to FranklinD.

Roosevelt Station and get off at Dot Square. Take subway lines M1 and M13 to Champs-élysées_Clemenceau station and get off at the eastern boulevard.

The Champs Elysé es is a fashionable resort in the eyes of Chinese people. Shopping must pass through, and there are many shops on both sides. Basically, all kinds of prices can be found, including luxury brands, fast-moving brands and animation brands. And my favorite macaroon laduree. The morning is beautiful, the day is realistic and the night is proud.

3. Paris Spring Department Store

Founded in 1865, Paris Spring Department Store is the first shopping mall in Paris that uses electric lighting. The dome at the top of the shopping mall building is made up of 3185 pieces of glass, which makes the neon-lit Paris night sky more enchanting whenever the lights are first on.

The flagship store is close to the Paris Galeries Lafayette department store (head office), and it is also three buildings, namely, women's wear (Mode), men's wear (Homme) and beauty home (BeautéMaison). The top floor of beauty home is a good place for sightseeing. Although Paris Spring Branch has opened all over the world, the most authentic Paris Spring is this flagship store, where all the clothes, gifts, jewelry and even works of art that are full of French fashion circles can be bought.

mode of transportation: take metro line 3 or line 9 to Havre-Caumartin station, and walk for about 3 minutes after getting off.

business hours: 9:35-21:11 from Monday to Saturday (including Thursday to 21:45), and closed on Sunday.

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Foreigners (with illegal nationality) can directly obtain 11% discount cards from Paris Spring website or the front desk, and the publications of Paris Tourism Bureau are all accompanied with discount coupons, and they can also get 12% credit card tax refund or 11% cash. But luxury brands, food and red wine can't be discounted.

There is a coffee shop on the top floor of Paris Spring Department Store, mainly because the scenery here is very good. It is very refreshing to stand on the terrace and look at the surrounding scenery. Especially after squeezing through the layers of human walls downstairs, I feel refreshed here.

4. Valley Shopping Village

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Village is close to Paris and 5 minutes' walk from Disney. The transportation is very convenient. The doors and windows of every shop in the shopping village are painted with different colors, which makes people feel like walking in fairy tales. In addition, the catering facilities are well-equipped, and there are even programs to look after children, and all-weather multilingual services are available to answer all your questions and provide thoughtful ideas for you everywhere.

after visiting the exclusive store, you should not miss visiting medieval villages and the rolling countryside in Seine-et-Marne, historic castles, intoxicating spas and Michelin-starred restaurants.

mode of transportation: you can choose to take the RERA line (A4) in the direction of Disney and get off at Vald'Europe station.

business hours: discount village: Monday-Saturday 11:11-21:11; Auchan hypermarket: Monday-Saturday 8:31-21:31; Restaurant: Monday-Sunday 11:11-24:11.

when you come here for shopping, the day will soon pass. It is very convenient to buy bb, boss, armani and superdry, and take the train RER

A. The Zhou Ka 21.25 Euro is bought through the European shopping village, where there are many second-line brands indoors. Since you come to the outlet, you can buy the first line, of course, and there is not much difference. Moreover, compared with Galeries Lafayette, these first-line brands may not participate in Galeries Lafayette's discount season, but they are also some goods, and the discount is not as cheap as here. Some styles are exactly the same as those in regular-price stores, but the price is only about half. If you don't want novelty, some goods will be discounted. Buy as much as you want and earn your ticket and travel expenses back.

5. Montaigne Street

Many tourists admire Montaigne Street for pilgrimage, and there are many top luxury brands here, such as Ungaro

Prada, Valentino, LV, Dior, Chanel, Loewe, Escada, Calvin

Klein and Gucci. Montaigne Avenue has suddenly improved its luxury image due to the presence of some luxury brands such as Dior and Chanel. Many aristocrats, celebrities and government officials will stay in the five-star hotel, Hotel

Plaza Atheneparis.

Montaigne Street was originally called Widows Lane, because women gathered here to mourn, but this street has changed a lot since the beginning of the 8th century. The present name of this street is named after Montaigne, a French Renaissance writer. In the 9th century, this street won some fame for its colorful Mabille balls on Saturday night.

mode of transportation: take M1 or M9 subway line and get off at FranklinD.Roosevelt station. Take M9 subway line to Alma-

Marceau station, get off and walk for about 3 minutes.

business hours: Montaigne Street is open all day, but the businesses on the street are different. Premise of tax refund

1) Not everyone can get a tax refund?

Only tourists who have the right of permanent residence outside the EU, that is to say, they must be a non-EU resident and over 16 years old, can get the tax refund.

2) how much euros should I spend to qualify for tax refund?

When tourists who are not nationals of the European Union travel in the EU, you have the right to apply for a tax refund in France when they buy a certain amount of goods and take them out of the EU.

European countries have a price limit for tax refund. In France, the minimum consumption (including TVA value-added tax) is 175.11, the value-added tax rate is generally 16.38

%, and the refund is the value-added tax minus the management fee of about 12%.

3) what is the consumption that can enjoy tax refund?

goods purchased in shops with TaxRefund signs such as "TaxFreeShopping", "tax refund" or "EuroFree

Tax" can enjoy the tax refund service.

4) not everything can be refunded?

first of all, the biggest premise is that only the goods that can be taken out of the country in person can apply for tax refund.

what do you mean by carrying it in person? To put it bluntly, you should show these things to the customs when you refund the tax!

xiaobian's friend lost Jingzhou here, because there were too many things, and she mailed some of the things she bought back to China, hoping to get a direct tax refund in the end. And! For convenience, she checked her luggage first, and then went to apply for a tax refund. Xiaobian was really embarrassed to her ... So, when the tax refund was made, the customs had to check the items refunded, and there was nothing! Lost tens of thousands, crying to the ground!

Secondly, there are some non-refundable commodities, such as tobacco, medicines, automobiles and automobile parts, weapons, cultural relics over 51 years old and stamps. Tax refund method

1. Cash

Cash tax refund: 11.8%

Euro or RMB can be refunded. The amount of RMB refunded is converted into RMB according to the exchange rate provided by the tax refund point and the euro amount of tax refund.

generally speaking, it is not recommended to change to RMB, because the exchange rate provided by the tax refund point is always lower than the real-time exchange rate, and there will be some losses in the middle.

tax refund points can be found at international airports, local cooperative tax refund points and some large shopping malls (such as Galeries Lafayette).

If you choose this tax refund method, you also need to show a credit card that is consistent with your passport as a guarantee when you take cash.

If there is no departure inspection within the specified time, the tax refund amount will be deducted from the credit card with the guarantee amount and a certain fine will be charged.

2. Credit card

Credit card tax refund: 12%

The tax refund rate of credit card tax refund will be higher than that of cash tax refund, but the only drawback is that it will take about two months after returning to China to receive the tax refund. When choosing a credit card for tax refund, the consumer credit card and the tax refund credit card do not have to be the same card. Please fill in the card number of that card on the tax refund form. Generally, it will be more cost-effective to choose a dual-currency card or an international credit card, because the tax obtained from consumption tax rebate in Europe is settled in euros. Tax refund steps

1. The merchant office | receives the tax refund form

When making payment, the customer needs to ask the store for a tax refund form in triplicate and the envelope of the company corresponding to the tax refund form. Merchants will ask tourists to provide their passport information and then make a tax refund application form.

at this step, you should choose the refund method of tax refund. Cash refund or credit card refund. Once selected, it cannot be changed.

after the clerk fills in the form, one copy is kept by the merchant, and the other two copies are presented to the customs officers together with the goods when the consumer leaves the country.

when receiving the tax refund application form issued by the cashier, remember to check whether the personal information on the form and the shopping/tax refund amount are correct. If you find any mistakes, ask the cashier to correct them before you go. Because if the personal information of tourists is incorrect, the tax refund company can't handle the tax refund.

some information needs to be filled in by yourself, which can be completed according to the following instructions.

2. airport | customs stamp

no customs stamp = no tax refund! The tax refund office only looks at the tax refund form stamped with the official seal of the customs, otherwise it is out of the question.

Charles de Gaulle's tax refund points are as follows:

Show your tax refund form, passport, purchased goods, e-ticket or boarding pass to the customs office before check-in to get the customs seal.

customs officers will stamp the tax refund form, one of which will be mailed back to the tax refund company in an envelope, and the third copy will be kept by customers themselves.

If PABLO's logo is printed on the tax refund form, you can also go to the PABLO machine next to the customs office and scan your tax refund form for exit customs verification.

the scanned tax refund form is equivalent to stamping the official seal of the customs, and there is no need to queue up at the customs gate, and there is no need to show the purchased products to the customs.

For example, Galeries Lafayette has its own tax refund office. On the day of purchase, tourists complete all the tax refund procedures at Galeries Lafayette and receive the money, so they just need to put the barcode of the tax bill on PABLO's machine to scan it.

if the tax refund form is successfully verified (message on the screen: OK), you can register and refund at the tax refund point.

after the customs stamps, those who choose to return the credit card only need to put the tax refund form in the corresponding envelope, and the counter-copy will be kept as a voucher. If there is no counter-copy, the tax refund form of the same company can be put in the same envelope and then put in the mailbox

or put in the yellow mailbox of Laposte.

but if it is not verified (there will be a warning message on the screen), you must go to the customs office to get the customs seal.

the manual tax refund window starts at 8 am. If you still want to collect cash at the airport, it is recommended to arrive at the airport three to four hours in advance. Because there are only three windows for cash recipients. If it is to exchange euros, there is only one, and the other two are non-euros.

3. As I said before, airports and businesses will suffer some losses if it is not the euro cash tax rebate. So it's best to find a place to refund euros, just look for Travelex. In Terminal 2, it's at Gate 1, on the left of PAUL

RESTAURANT. A handling fee of Euro3 will be charged for each tax refund form. For those guests whose tax refund amount is less than Euro5,111 for a single tax refund form, it is suggested that you don't waste that time waiting in line to get cash, and just write down the credit card number and return it to the card. Frequently asked questions

1) If you leave the EU through another EU member state, how to go through the customs clearance verification procedures?

If you want to continue to travel to another EU country or change planes, you only need to ask the customs staff to stamp the tax refund application form when you leave the last EU country. You can't get the customs seal when you leave the first EU country. For example, if you return from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, but need to transfer from Germany, you need to apply for tax refund in Germany.

2) if you fail to apply for cash or credit card tax refund at the local airport in time after stamping the customs tax refund counter, can you remedy it after returning home?

if the counter of the tax refund company is closed in the middle of the night or early morning because of a hurry to catch a plane or take off, GlobalBlue

has cash tax refund points in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, as long as the receipts for consumption in Europe and GlobalBlue are kept.