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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.

Contracts and business

Your Kbis Has Not Arrived and Your French Company Is Stuck: How a Foreign Founder Unblocks the Guichet Unique and Restarts Bank, Invoices and Hiring From Abroad

No Kbis, no legal personality: a foreign founder's guide to fixing a Guichet unique rejection, protecting interim contracts and restarting bank, VAT invoices and hiring from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Declare Its Beneficial Owners and You Live Abroad: Who Counts, How to File and How to Fix a Rejection From Abroad

Foreign founder? Who counts as beneficial owner of your French company, how to file on the Guichet unique from abroad, and how to fix a rejection before fines and removal.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Received Its First CFE Local Business Tax Bill and You Live Abroad: Creation-Year Exemption, Minimum Charge, Payment and How to Challenge From Abroad

First CFE notice for your French company while you live abroad? Creation-year exemption, minimum charge at a domiciliation address, 15 December online payment and the 31 December claim deadl …

Contracts and business

Your French Subsidiary Lost Money and Owes You Cash: How a Foreign Parent Writes Off the Loan, Rebuilds Equity and Faces the Tax Audit From Abroad

Foreign parent of a loss-making French company: write off the shareholder loan, rebuild equity under 2026 tax rules, and file everything from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Pays Interest to Its Foreign Parent: How Much Is Deductible, What Tax Is Withheld and How to Defend the Rate From Abroad

Foreign parent lent money to your French company? Deductibility caps, 25% withholding, treaty relief and the dividend-reclassification trap, defended from abroad.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Customer Has Not Paid: How a Foreign Company Gets a Payment Order and Enforces the Invoice From Abroad

Unpaid French invoice? A foreign supplier's guide to formal demand, injonction de payer, the one-month opposition deadline and enforcement from abroad.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Foreign Minority Shareholder in a French Company: How to Challenge Abuse of Majority, Get Information and Exit From Abroad

Locked out of your French company while living abroad? A Paris lawyer explains how a foreign minority shareholder proves abuse of majority, gets a court-appointed expert, annuls abusive vote …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Foreign Parent in France: Branch vs Subsidiary — Registration, Liability, Tax and How to Challenge a Refusal From Abroad

Branch or subsidiary in France? A foreign-founder guide to liability, registration, bank account, corporate tax and challenging refusals from abroad.

Contracts and business

Foreign Director in France: How to Pay Yourself (Salary vs Dividends), Social Security Status and Personal Liability

Foreign founder running a French SAS or SARL from abroad: salary or dividends, assimile salarie or independent-worker status, and what you personally risk if the company fails.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Missed Its First Legal Deadlines From Abroad: Annual Accounts, AGM, Tax Returns and How to Catch Up

Foreign founder guide to the French company legal calendar: approve accounts in six months, file with the greffe, return corporate tax and VAT, pay CFE, and catch up late filings from abroad …

Contracts and business

Your French VAT Number Is Still Inactive After You Got the Kbis: How a Foreign Founder Activates It, Invoices Legally and Reclaims VAT From Abroad

Kbis in hand but no working French VAT number? A foreign founder's guide to activating the number, invoicing lawfully while waiting, reclaiming input VAT and contesting SIE decisions from ab …

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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