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Contracts and business

You Lent Money to Your French Company While Living Abroad: Shareholder Advances, Interest Caps, Withholding and Getting Repaid

Foreign founder financing a French company from abroad: how to paper a shareholder advance, pass related-party approvals, keep interest deductible within French caps, cut withholding via the …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Receives Electronic Invoices Since 1 September 2026 While You Live Abroad: Platforms, New Mentions, Fines and Court Proof

Since 1 September 2026 every French company must receive electronic invoices through an approved platform, even when its owner lives abroad. Calendar, platform setup from abroad, new SIREN m …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Moves Office While You Live Abroad: Transfer the Registered Office, Update the Kbis and Protect Your Contracts

Moving your French company registered office from abroad: vote the transfer, file on the Guichet unique, get the new Kbis and update contracts, tax and payroll.

Contracts and business

You Run Your French Company From Abroad: Director Social Security in France — TNS or Assimile Salarie, What You Pay and How to Affiliate

Appointed president of a French SAS or manager of a SARL while living abroad? Your corporate title decides whether you join the general regime as an assimile salarie or the self-employed reg …

Contracts and business

Your French Company and VAT While You Live Abroad: Get the Number, Charge the Right Rate, File From Afar and Fix Mistakes

Your French company is registered but the VAT number has not arrived, customers challenge your invoices and returns pile up. This guide shows foreign owners how to get the number, charge the …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Faces a Tax Audit While You Live Abroad: Answer the Inspector, Defuse the Reassessment and Appeal From Abroad

Tax audit of your French company while you live abroad: audit notice, three-month clock, oral debate, reasoned reassessment, formal complaint, suspended payment and court appeal.

Contracts and business

You Own a French Company From Abroad: Declare Your Beneficial Owners, Update the Register on Time and Avoid the EUR 200,000 Fine

French companies must declare the natural persons who ultimately own or control them to the beneficial ownership register and update it within thirty days of any change. Who counts across a …

Contracts and business

Your French Customer Has Not Paid Your Invoice and You Live Abroad: Injonction de Payer, European Order, Late Penalties and Seizure From Abroad

French client silent past the due date? File an injonction de payer or European order from abroad, add ECB-plus-ten penalties and the 40 euro fee, then seize.

Contracts and business

You Missed the Deadline to Approve Your French Company’s Accounts While Living Abroad: How to Fix It, File Late and Avoid Fines

Your French company's accounts were not approved within six months and nothing was filed at the greffe. This guide explains how to hold the late meeting, file through the Guichet unique, and …

Contracts and business

You Repaid Yourself From the French Company Just Before Insolvency and You Live Abroad: Cancelled Repayments and How to Defend the Payment

Founder abroad repaid from the French company before insolvency: which repayments the court cancels in the period before the opening, how the cessation date is challenged, and how to defend …

Contracts and business

You Lent Money to Your French Company While Living Abroad: Shareholder Current Account Repayment, Interest and Blocked Refunds

WITHDRAWN DUPLICATE of 2026-10-02 shareholder current account guide; moved to draft pending pivot.

Contracts and business

You Must Shut Your French Branch While the Head Office Stays Abroad: Radiation, Staff, Lease, Tax and Proof

Closing a French branch from abroad: file the RCS radiation, dismiss staff lawfully, surrender the lease, file final tax returns and keep bilingual proof.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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