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Articles of 26 September 2026
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Your Foreign Company Needs a French VAT Number and You Live Abroad: Register, Charge, File and Recover From Abroad
Foreign founder guide to French VAT from abroad: registration, reverse charge, CA3 filing, deduction deadlines, refunds and how to challenge a reassessment.
Your ISA After Moving to France After Brexit: No New Money In, French Tax Every Year, and How to Challenge the Bill
Moved to France with a British ISA? No new subscriptions, French tax each year at 30 percent, yearly declaration on forms 3916, 2047 and 2042, and how to challenge a wrong bill.
How Foreign Founders Pay Themselves From a French Company While Living Abroad: Salary, Dividends, Social Charges and Withholding Tax
Foreign founder living abroad? Salary or dividends from your French company: real costs, social charges, withholding tax rates and how to challenge URSSAF or tax reassessments.
British Step-Parent in France After Brexit: Why Your Stepchildren Pay 60% Tax, What Your Own Children Can Reclaim, and How to Provide for Them
British step-parent in France? Stepchildren inherit nothing automatically and pay 60% tax after EUR 1,594. Wills, simple adoption and life assurance explained.
SAS vs SARL in France as a Foreign Founder Living Abroad: Costs, Control, Pay, Tax and How to Change Course
SAS or SARL for your French company when you live abroad? Compare creation, Kbis, director pay vs dividends, social charges, investor entry and exit — with official texts and the traps to av …
City Hall Wants the Flat You Just Agreed to Buy: France’s Urban Pre-emption Right for Foreign Buyers
The commune can step into your French property purchase at the agreed price. How the two-month DIA clearance works and how foreign buyers contest price and legality.
British Driver Hurt in a Car Crash in France After Brexit: the Insurer Offer, the Fault Trap, and How to Challenge From the UK
British driver hurt in France: insurer offer deadlines, driver fault rules, guarantee fund cover and how to challenge a low offer from the UK.
Your Foreign Company Earns Money in France With No Branch or Subsidiary: Permanent Establishment, Registration and How to Challenge the Tax Bill From Abroad
A foreign company that sells, hires or stores goods in France can be taxed as a permanent establishment even with no French office. This guide explains when France can tax you, whether to ch …
Named Beneficiary of a French Assurance-Vie After Brexit: the 152,500-Euro Allowance, the Over-70 Rule, and How to Challenge the Bill
British beneficiary of a French assurance-vie? How the 152,500-euro allowance, the over-70 rule and the 20 and 31.25 per cent levy work, how to get the insurer to pay, and how to challenge t …
Your French Company Is Owed Money and You Live Abroad: Unpaid Invoices, Late Penalties and Fast Court Orders From Abroad
Your French company has unpaid invoices and you live abroad. French payment caps, automatic late penalties, the 40 euro fee, injonction de payer and enforcement from abroad, explained for fo …
Storm and Water Damage in Your French Flat: Who Pays and How Foreign Owners Get Fully Compensated (2026)
Water damage after a storm in your French flat? A Paris practice explains who pays — neighbour, co-ownership or insurer — and how foreign owners secure full compensation.
Unmarried and Buying a French House Together After Brexit: Indivision, Tontine, PACS and How the Survivor Keeps the Roof
Unmarried British couple buying in France after Brexit: who owns what in indivision, how a conventional agreement stabilises the home, and how a tontine clause, a PACS and an English will pr …
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