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Your Foreign Parent Lent Money to Your French Company: Shareholder Current Accounts, Interest Caps and Getting Repaid From Abroad
Your foreign parent funded your French SAS or SARL by current account. French law caps the deductible interest, allows on-demand repayment and offers conversion into capital. Full method fro …
Contracts and business
You Live Abroad and Run Your French Company Yourself: Non-Resident President, Pay, Social Security and Challenging URSSAF From Abroad
Non-resident founder of a French SAS or SARL: appointment and Kbis registration from abroad, assimilated-employee versus independent-worker regime, payroll, and how to challenge a URSSAF rea …
Contracts and business
Your French Company Owes Corporate Tax While You Live Abroad: 25% IS Rate, Advance Payments, Filing and How to Challenge the Reassessment
Your French company pays 25% corporate tax in four advance instalments with the balance in May. This guide explains filing from abroad, CFE and CVAE, and how to answer a reassessment and cha …
Your French Distributor or Supplier Must Go While You Live Abroad: Notice, Damages, Proof and a Clean Exit
Living abroad, you can end a French distribution or supply relationship, but only with written notice measured against years of history. This guide explains how Paris courts assess establish …
Your French Company Must Now Send Electronic Invoices and You Live Abroad: Issue, Receive, E-Report and Challenge Fines From Abroad
Since 1 September 2026 France requires electronic invoicing between VAT businesses, with small companies following in 2027. A practical English guide for directors living abroad: calendar, e …
Your French Company Needs a Paris Address While You Live Abroad: Domiciliation, Short-Term Derogatory Lease, 9-Year Commercial Lease, Rent and How to Challenge Eviction
Foreign founder living abroad? How to fix your French company's Paris registered office, obtain the Kbis, choose between a 3-year derogatory lease and a 9-year commercial lease, and challeng …
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 …
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 …
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 …
You Just Received a French Tax Audit Notice While Living Abroad: Vérification de Comptabilité, Rectification Proposal and How to Challenge
Your French company faces a vérification de comptabilité while you live abroad. Notice, counsel deadline, on-site audit, rectification proposal, penalties and appeals, step by step.
Contracts and business
Your French Employee Has Been Declared Unfit While You Live Abroad: Inaptitude, Reclassification, the One-Month Clock and What Dismissal Really Costs
Your French employee is declared unfit for work and you manage from abroad. This guide explains the occupational doctor's opinion, the duty to find another post, the one-month salary clock a …
Your French Company Fails While You Live Abroad: Will You Pay Its Debts, Face a Ban, and How to Protect Yourself Now
Foreign founder living abroad: when you pay your French company debts, when you face a management ban, and how to protect yourself now.
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