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You Are Selling Your Shares in Your French Company While Living Abroad: What Happens to the Money You Lent It

Selling your SAS or SARL shares from abroad? Your shareholder loan does not follow the shares automatically. Transfer deed, notification, price, tax and enforcement explained.

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Your French Customer Does Not Pay and You Live Abroad: Demand Letter, Injonction de Payer, European Order and Enforcement

Your French customer has not paid your invoice and you run the company from abroad. This guide explains the French recovery ladder: formal demand, late penalties, the fast injonction de paye …

Contracts and business

You Live Abroad and Want to Give Your French Company Shares to Your Children: Notarial Gift, Approval, Dutreil Relief and Gift Tax

Giving SARL or SAS shares to your children from abroad: notarial deed, family approval, Dutreil 75% relief, gift-tax math and non-resident rules.

Contracts and business

Your French Company’s Bank Account Is Frozen and You Live Abroad: Why Banks Freeze Corporate Accounts, What Proof Unfreezes Them, and How to Keep Trading

French bank account frozen while you live abroad? AML freeze, account closure or creditor seizure: the exact proofs, deadlines and remedies that unfreeze company money.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Is Moving Cities and You Live Abroad: Transferring the Registered Office, Filing the Move and Avoiding the Traps

Moving your French SARL or SAS to a new city from abroad: shareholder vote, legal notice, one-month gateway filing, beneficial-owner update, and what changes on registration day.

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You Live Abroad and Your French Company Missed the Annual Accounts Filing: Approval, Filing with the Greffe and Penalties

Directing a French SARL or SAS from abroad? Six-month approval, Greffe filing, penalties and how to fix a missed annual accounts deadline.

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Your French Company Signs a 3/6/9 Commercial Lease While You Live Abroad: Term, Rent, Deposit and How to Leave

French 3/6/9 commercial lease for a company run from abroad: nine-year term, three-year exits, short leases, rent revision, eviction indemnity and termination for unpaid rent.

Contracts and business

You Direct Your French Company From Abroad: French Social Security, Which Regime Applies, What It Costs and How to Avoid Paying Twice

Appointed president of a SAS or manager of a SARL while living outside France? This guide explains when French social security applies to you, which regime follows your mandate, what contrib …

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Your French Company Must Now Handle E-Invoices While You Live Abroad: 1 September 2026 Deadlines, Approved Platforms and Fines

Since 1 September 2026 every French company must receive e-invoices via an approved platform. Large firms must also issue and report; smaller ones follow on 1 September 2027. Fines, formal n …

Contracts and business

Your First French Employee Asks for a Mutual Separation While You Live Abroad: Rupture Conventionnelle, Homologation and the True Cost

Your first French hire asks for a rupture conventionnelle while you run the company from abroad. Interviews, 15-day withdrawal, DREETS homologation, severance floor and what courts do when t …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Withheld 12.8% on Dividends You Received Abroad: How to Recover the Treaty Excess From France

French dividends wired abroad suffer 12.8 percent withholding; your tax treaty can cap the French share: forms 5000 and 5001, deadlines, refunds and court remedies.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

You Own a French Company and Live Abroad: How to Pay Yourself — Salary, Dividends, Social Charges and Tax

Salary or dividends from your French SAS or SARL while living abroad: social regime, 12.8 percent withholding, paperwork, calendar and costly mistakes.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

Partner, member of the Paris Bar, 11 rue Margueritte, 75017 Paris. Author of the analyses published in this journal. About