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Contracts and business

Send Your Own Staff to Work in France Without Hiring Locally: Posted Workers, the SIPSI Declaration, A1 Certificates and the Fines You Risk From Abroad

Draft保留 duplicate of the 17 September posting guide - pending pivot.

Contracts and business

Your Foreign Parent Bills Your French Company Management Fees While You Live Abroad: Deduct Them, Charge French VAT and Survive the Tax Audit

Foreign parent charging your French subsidiary monthly management fees? How to prove real services, set an arm's length transfer price, self-assess French VAT by reverse charge, and challeng …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Received a Tax Audit Notice While You Live Abroad: Verification, Rectification Reply and Challenge Guide

Foreign owner living abroad? How your French company survives a tax audit: audit notice, on-site checks, 30-day rectification reply, 40 percent penalty defence and Paris litigation steps, wi …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Has a Legal Calendar: Approve Accounts, Hold the Meeting and File From Abroad

Living abroad with a French company? Approval within six months, filing with the greffe, corporate tax, VAT, payroll and register updates: the full annual calendar, penalties and fixes.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Switch to Electronic Invoicing From Abroad: 1 September 2026 Deadlines, Approved Platforms, E-Reporting and Late-Payment Penalties

Foreign founder? Your French company must receive e-invoices by 1 September 2026, issue via an approved platform, report foreign sales, and enforce compliant payment terms. Full guide.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Customer Has Not Paid and You Live Abroad: Recover Your French Company’s Unpaid Invoice From Penalties to Enforcement

Foreign owner of a French company with an unpaid French invoice: late penalties at ECB rate plus 10 points, 40 euro fee, formal demand, payment order and enforcement run remotely from abroad …

Contracts and business

Closing Your French Company From Abroad: Dissolve It, Liquidate It and Get Struck Off Without Flying Back to France

Solvent French SAS or SARL to close while you live abroad? Vote the dissolution, run the liquidation, file the last tax and social returns and get struck off, in that order.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes Tax and Paperwork While You Live Abroad: File Corporate Tax, Pay On Time and Approve Your Accounts

Foreign founder guide: French corporate tax at 25 percent, filing deadlines, quarterly instalments and surcharges, plus the yearly calendar to approve and file your company accounts from abr …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Made a Profit While You Live Abroad: Vote Dividends, Pay French Withholding Tax and Bring the Cash Home

Your French subsidiary is profitable and you live abroad. This guide explains how to approve the accounts and vote the dividend from abroad, pay within the nine-month deadline, handle French …

Contracts and business

Your First French Employee Works Overtime While You Live Abroad: 35-Hour Week, Pay Rates, Time Records and Labour Court Risk

Your first French hire works 42 hours while you run the company from abroad. French law prices every hour beyond 35: 25 and 50 percent premiums, a 220-hour annual ceiling, mandatory time rec …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Let Go of Its First Employee While You Live Abroad: Dismissal Steps, Negotiated Exit Costs and Labour Court Risk

Foreign owner of a French company? Dismissal procedure, severance pay, mutual separation and labour court costs when you part with your first employee while living abroad.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

French VAT for Foreign-Owned Companies: Get Your VAT Number, File Your First Returns and Fix Penalties From Abroad

Foreign founder in France? How to get a French VAT number, apply the exemption thresholds, file CA3 returns and challenge penalties from abroad.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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