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Articles of 10 September 2026
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INPI or the Greffe Blocked Your French Company File: Which Foreign Documents Need a Sworn Translation and How to Unblock It
INPI or the greffe refused the English pack. Which foreign parent documents need a sworn translation, who may stamp it, and how to rebuild or contest the filing.
The Bank or the Landlord Wants Your Personal Guarantee: How a Foreign Director Limits, Contests or Releases a Cautionnement
A French bank or landlord wants you to sign as caution. How a foreign director of a SAS or SARL caps the deed, contests disproportion after 2022, and gets released after leaving.
Your French Company Received the Wrong APE/NAF Code: How a Foreign Founder Gets INSEE to Correct It and Why the Collective Agreement Does Not Follow the Code
If INSEE coded your French SAS or SARL with the wrong APE/NAF, do not treat it as a licence or as the collective agreement. Here is how a foreign founder corrects an anomaly, when the objet …
Your French Subsidiary’s Equity Fell Below Half the Share Capital: Recapitalise From Abroad Before the Kbis Mention and a Dissolution Claim
When French equity falls below half the share capital, a foreign parent has four months to vote, then a statutory clock to recapitalise or face a dissolution claim.
Your French Company’s Accounts Must Be Approved Within Six Months: How a Foreign Owner Votes From Abroad
Six-month deadline, fifteen-day notice, blocked dividends: how foreign owners of SARL, SAS and SA approve French annual accounts remotely by written consultation, postal vote or video meetin …
Your French Subsidiary Needs Cash From Abroad: How a Foreign Parent Lends, Charges Interest and Gets Repaid
How a foreign parent funds its French subsidiary from abroad: intra-group loan rules, regulated agreements, deductible interest caps, repayment rights and withholding tax on the interest.
Closing Your French Subsidiary From Abroad: Dissolution, Liquidation, Tax Clearance and Getting the Money Home
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British Resident in France Gifting Your French House to Your Children After Brexit: Donation-Partage, the 100,000 Euro Allowance and How to Challenge a Reassessment
How British parents can gift their French house to their children with a donation-partage, use the 100,000 euro allowance per parent per child, and challenge an excessive tax reassessment.
SAS vs SARL in France: How a Foreign Founder Chooses, Pays the Director and Fixes the Bank Block
Foreign founder hesitating between SAS and SARL? Liability, capital, director social charges, blocked bank deposit and switching vehicles later, with statutes and case law.
Your French Company’s Director Has Left: How a Foreign Owner Changes the President or Gerant From Abroad
Your SAS president resigned or your SARL manager must go and you live abroad. This guide covers the lawful removal vote, the single-portal filing for a fresh Kbis, and how to unblock the ban …
British Resident in France Moving Your UK Pension to a QROPS After Brexit: Transfer Charge, French Tax and How to Challenge Double Tax
British resident in France? How a UK pension transfer to a QROPS is charged 25% in Britain, taxed in France under the treaty, and how to challenge double tax.
Squatters in Your French Second Home: How Foreign Owners Get Them Out in Days, Not Months
Strangers moved into your French holiday house? Since the August 2026 reform, owners can get squatters evicted within days through the prefet, or through the emergency judge with occupation …
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