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Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes Corporate Tax While You Live Abroad: 25% Rate, Quarterly Instalments, Loss Relief and How to Challenge a Reassessment

IS at 25%, quarterly instalments, CFE, filing from abroad and how to challenge a French tax reassessment: the corporate tax guide for foreign owners.

Contracts and business

Send Your Own Staff to France or Hire Locally? Secondment, A1 Certificates, SIPSI Declarations and the Fines Foreign Employers Face

Posting your own staff to France instead of hiring locally? SIPSI declaration, French representative, A1 certificates, fines up to 4,000 EUR per worker and joint liability of the French cust …

Contracts and business

Buying Control of a French Company From Abroad: Which Foreign Investments Need Prior Authorization (IEF), How to Get It and What Happens Without It

Foreign buyer taking control of a French company may need prior IEF authorization: three screening conditions, filing on the Tresor platform, deadlines, conditions, fines and court review.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Is Stuck Without a Kbis While You Live Abroad: Guichet Unique Blockage, Emergency Proof and Recourse

No Kbis, no bank, no VAT, no hire: why the Guichet unique blocks foreign founders and how to rebuild the proof file and obtain recourse from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Made a Profit and You Live Abroad: How to Take the Money Out — Dividends, Withholding, Treaty Refunds and Salary Arbitrage

Your French company is profitable and you live abroad. This English guide explains how foreign founders vote lawful dividends, cut French withholding under treaties and EU law, and claim ref …

Contracts and business

Selling Your Shares in Your French Company While Living Abroad: Approval, Price, Registration Duties and How to Challenge a Blocked Sale

You live abroad and want to sell your shares in a French SAS or SARL. Approval, price, duties, deadlines and remedies when the sale is blocked.

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You Lent Money to Your French Company and Live Abroad: Shareholder Current Account Interest, Repayment and How to Get Your Money Back

Foreign founder guide: fund your French SAS or SARL by shareholder current account from abroad, charge lawful interest, handle French tax, and get repaid through formal notice, order-for-pay …

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You Must Dismiss Your First French Employee While You Live Abroad: Cause, Procedure, Severance and Court Defence

Your first French hire is not working out and you live abroad. Real and serious cause, dismissal procedure, severance pay and labour court defence after the trial period.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes Corporate Tax While You Live Abroad: IS Rate, Instalments, Loss Carryforward and How to Challenge the Bill

French corporate tax (IS) for foreign founders: 25% rate, 15% small-company slice, four instalments, loss carryforward and carryback traps, penalties and how to challenge a bill from abroad.

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

Your French customer has not paid and you live abroad. French law adds automatic late penalties at ECB plus ten points and a 40-euro recovery fee, gives you three fast tracks including the E …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Made a Profit and You Live Abroad: How to Bring the Money Home Through Dividends, Withholding Tax, Treaties and Refunds

Your French company is profitable and you live abroad. This English guide explains how to vote dividends lawfully, avoid fictitious distributions, apply the French withholding tax, use tax t …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Has No Valid Address and You Live Abroad: Domiciliation, Commercial Lease, Greffe Rejection and How to Fix It From Abroad

Foreign founder living abroad: give your French company a valid registered office, pass the greffe check with domiciliation or a lease, and avoid a nine-year trap.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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