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Contracts and business

Your French Company Needs Cash While You Live Abroad: Shareholder Loans, Blocked Current Accounts and Getting Your Money Back

A foreign shareholder can fund a French SAS or SARL through a shareholder current account, a capital increase or an intra-group loan, and recover the money. Procedure, interest caps, blockin …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Hires a Foreign Subcontractor Whose Staff Work in France: Vigilance Checks, the 48-Hour Declaration, Fines and How to Challenge Them

Your French company hires a foreign subcontractor whose team works on your site in France: this guide explains your vigilance checks, the SIPSI declaration, the 48-hour fallback rule, the fi …

Contracts and business

Your Foreign Company Rents an Office in Paris While You Live Abroad: Signing the Commercial Lease, Renewing It, and Challenging Eviction or Rent Hikes

Foreign founder renting a Paris office from abroad: 9-year lease or short lease, signing checks, renewal, eviction pay and rent challenges.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Made a Profit While You Live Abroad: Vote, Pay and Receive Dividends, Withholding Tax and How to Challenge

Your French SAS closed a profitable year while you live abroad. How to vote and pay the dividend within nine months, which French withholding tax applies, how treaties and EU law reduce it …

Contracts and business

You Direct Your French Company From Abroad: Director Status, Social Security, Pay and Personal Liability

Foreign founder directing a French SAS or SARL from abroad: assimilated-employee vs self-employed status, URSSAF charges, pay and dividends tax, Kbis and beneficial owner filings, personal l …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Hiring Your First French Employee While You Live Abroad: DPAE, Contract, Trial Period, Payslips and URSSAF Declarations

Hiring your first French employee from abroad: DPAE declaration, written contract, trial period, payslips, DSN, health cover and the proof file that decides labour court cases.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Contractor May Already Be Your Employee: Requalification, URSSAF Reassessment and How to Challenge From Abroad

Foreign founder running a French company from abroad? A freelancer under your daily control is an employee under French law. Subordination test, back contributions, six-month indemnity and h …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Customer Never Paid the Invoice While You Live Abroad: Demand Letter, Fast-Track Payment Order, Emergency Provision and Seizure

A French customer ignores your invoices while you live abroad. This pillar guide explains payment ceilings, automatic penalties, the formal demand letter, the paper-only payment order, the e …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes Corporate Tax While You Live Abroad: Rate, Instalments, Filing and How to Challenge a Reassessment

Foreign founder guide to French corporate tax: 25 percent rate, 15 percent SME band, quarterly instalments, filing deadlines, audits and how to challenge a reassessment from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Subsidiary Invoices Your Foreign Company While You Live Abroad: Transfer Pricing Proof, Documentation and How to Challenge a Reassessment

Your French subsidiary trades with your foreign parent company? Transfer pricing proof under article 57, the 150-million documentation duty, form 2257, the 30-day notice, penalties and how t …

Contracts and business

Your Foreign Company Launches Its Brand in France While You Live Abroad: INPI Filing, Opposition, Genuine Use and Counterfeit Remedies

Launching a foreign brand in France from abroad: how INPI registration works, how to survive opposition, why five years of non-use kills the mark, and how French courts punish counterfeits.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Signs Its First Commercial Lease While You Live Abroad: 3-6-9 Term, Deposit, Rent Reviews, Renewal and Eviction Compensation

WITHDRAWN duplicate pending pivot: inter-engine collision on 3-6-9 lease angle.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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