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English translation: flat rate for unpaid debts

14:34 May 15, 2011

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Real Estate / Technical Survey Report/Valuation

French term or phrase: Taux forfaitaire d’impayés

Taux forfaitaire d’impayés - 5%
Taux forfaitaire de vacance - 5%

Catherine Gilsenan KudoZ activity Questions: 224 (13 open) (2 without valid answers) (49 closed without grading) Answers: 358 United Kingdom
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English translation:flat rate for unpaid debts

Explanation:
In some cases, consumers can negotiate a reduced rate for the unpaid debt,

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Note added at 54 mins (2011-05-15 15:29:30 GMT)
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OR INSTEAD OF " UNPAID DEBTS " = " ARREARS "

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Local time: 07:02

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flat rate for unpaid debts

silvester55

fixed rate [of] outstanding invoices

Nikki Scott-Despaigne

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flat rate for unpaid debts

silvester55
Local time: 07:02
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fixed rate [of] outstanding invoices

Explanation:
Perhaps "outstanding invoices debts". A debt is forcibly unpaid, so on "unpaid debt" sounds odd. My suggestion in response to Silvester55's answer - "bad debt" - is probably best avoided on second thoughts. It has a sepcific meaning in accounting and commercial terms; it is used to describe a debt that has been uncollected for some time and that will have to be written off as an expense. It is "irrécouvrable". There is a finality to it which there is not with "impayé".

Questions I raise and for which it would be great t have more context!
- We have "taux ... d'impayés" and not "taux ... pour impayés". Is this describing the volume of unpaid invoices/bad debts which the company (if this is the context) allows for in its accounting ?
- Is this describing the flat rate of interest applied to any outstanding debt?
- Where does this appear in the document?
- What is the nature of the document in which it appears?
- "Impayé" from whose point of view? Who owes the money? Who is to be paid?

I reckon we need some scenario here, some scene to be set...please!

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Note added at 14 hrs (2011-05-16 05:26:31 GMT)
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I meant to post "Perhaps 'outstanding invoices' and not 'debts' at the end of my first sentence of the explanation. I forgot to edit it out!!!

Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 06:02
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