Louise Etheridge (asker) Apr 21, 2011:

Thanks for the contributions. It's just part of a procedures manual/forms for a distribution company, so fairly general. This is a French document. Thanks.

BrigitteHilgner Apr 21, 2011:

Are we talking about soldiers? UN staff? Invalids? (See Jenn's contribution) France? Any other French-speaking country? In Europe? Africa? What kind of "new starters"?

Sheila Wilson Apr 21, 2011:

We pay contributions and taxes for every conceivable (and inconceivable) reason in France, but I don't think any of them have these names.

Louise Etheridge (asker) Apr 21, 2011:

This is from an HR document for 'new starters'. Unfortunately the words appear exactly like that with no other sentence. They are just bulleted points, however, the document refers to other types of contributions such as pensions, health, etc, so I'm assuming it's some sort of rate or tax but it's really not that clear from the document as it's just a form. Thanks.

Tony M Apr 21, 2011:

Context Yes, and also, please tell us what the overall document is about and for, and to whom it is addressed?

writeaway Apr 21, 2011:

Agree with Sheila Please post a full sentence in French or anything else in French that would help explain it

Sheila Wilson Apr 21, 2011:

There must be more to it than that All we have to go on are two words. Google them and you can see that they simply don't exist like that, not without punctuation in between and words to either side. What do you mean by "contributions"? Is it a PPT presentation? Are they column headings? Are there any values for these "taux"? Does the word "guerre" appear elsewhere? There are hundreds of things that might be useful to us.