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Articles of 29 September 2026
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Your UK ISA in France After Brexit: Why the Tax-Free Wrapper Fails, How Each Interest, Dividend and Premium Bond Prize Is Taxed, and How to Challenge Double Tax
British ISA stops being tax-free once you live in France. Cash interest, dividends, Lifetime ISA gains and Premium Bond prizes: French tax, treaty credit, forms 2042/2047/3916, fines and cha …
Your French Company Collects Customer and Employee Data While You Live Abroad: GDPR Rules, CNIL Fines and How to Challenge Them
Foreign founder running a French company from abroad? GDPR duties, CNIL controls and fines up to millions, employee monitoring rules, criminal and dismissal risks, and how to challenge each …
British Parents Gifting Your French House to Your Children After Brexit: Donation-Partage, the 100,000-Euro Allowance, and How to Challenge the Tax Bill
British parents can give a French house to their children now by donation-partage before a notaire, lock in values, use the 100,000-euro allowance per parent per child, and survive Britain's …
Contracts and business
Your French Client Does Not Pay You and You Live Abroad: Late Penalties, Injonction de Payer, European Order and Forced Recovery
Your French client ignores your invoices while you live abroad. French law adds automatic ECB-plus-ten penalties and a 40-euro indemnity, then converts the invoice into an enforceable order …
Squatters in Your French Second Home: How Absent Foreign Owners Recover Possession After the 18 August 2026 Law
Your Paris flat is occupied by strangers and the lock is changed. Since 18 August 2026, second-home owners get the fast prefectural eviction: complaint, proof of ownership, 48-hour decision …
Your French Second Home After Brexit: The Annual Property Tax Bill (Taxe Fonciere, Taxe dHabitation, Surtax and IFI) and How to Challenge It
British owner of a French holiday home? What you pay each year in taxe fonciere, taxe dhabitation sur les residences secondaires, surcharge and IFI wealth tax, and how to challenge a wrong b …
Company law
Your French Bank Says No From Abroad? How to Open a Corporate Bank Account in France as a Foreign Founder
Foreign founder blocked at the bank? Capital deposit, blocked-funds certificate, Kbis release and how to challenge a refusal through Banque de France designation, from abroad.
Arrested in France After Brexit: A British National’s Rights in Police Custody (Garde a Vue), and How to Challenge the Custody and What Follows
Arrested in France as a British national? How long police custody lasts, your rights to a lawyer, interpreter and consular help, and how to challenge the custody, from release to appeal.
Your Business Needs a French VAT Number While You Live Abroad: When Registration Is Required, How to Register, File and Challenge Assessments
Foreign founder or foreign company facing French VAT: when a French VAT number is required, how to register via the SIEE from abroad, how to invoice, reverse-charge and file CA3 returns, and …
Asbestos or Lead Found After Buying in France: Cancel the Sale, Cut the Price or Make the Seller Pay (2026 Guide for Foreign Buyers)
Asbestos or lead discovered after buying a French home? A foreign-buyer's guide to the hidden-defects warranty, defeating the exemption clause, the diagnostic file and suing the surveyor for …
Company law
You Live Abroad and Your French SAS or SARL Needs Fresh Capital: Inject Cash, Defend Your Stake, Register the Increase and Challenge an Unfair Dilution
Your French company needs fresh equity while you live abroad. This guide explains how to vote and pay a cash capital increase from another country, keep your preferential subscription right …
Your Mum Lost Capacity in France After Brexit: Why the French Bank Freezes the Account on a UK Lasting Power of Attorney, and How to Put an Enforceable French Protection in Place
British Lasting Power of Attorney refused by a French bank or notaire: why the LPA stalls, how to activate a mandat de protection future, and how habilitation familiale, sauvegarde, curatell …
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