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Contracts and business

Your Foreign-Owned French Company Owes Corporate Tax and VAT: Registration, Instalments, E-Invoicing and How to Contest From Abroad

Foreign-owned French SAS or SARL: IS registration, 25% rate and SME relief, instalments, treaty protection, VAT number, reverse charge, e-invoicing and refunds, plus how to contest from abro …

Contracts and business

Your Goods Are Stuck at the French Border and You Live Abroad: Import VAT Reverse Charge, Registration, Refunds and How to Contest

Foreign company importing goods through France without a French office: EORI and French VAT number, tax representative or agent, CA3 reverse charge, refunds and how to contest a reassessment …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Received a Formal Demand From URSSAF and You Live Abroad: the One-Month Clock, the Surcharges and the 15-Day Way Out

URSSAF sent your French company a formal demand while you live abroad. One month to pay, surcharges running, and a 15-day opposition against the enforcement order.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Received Its First CFE Bill and You Live Abroad: Pay It, Skip It Legally or Contest It

First CFE bill for your French company while you live abroad? Pay by 15 December, claim the creation exemption, and contest errors before the deadline.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Approve Its Annual Accounts While You Live Abroad: the 6-Month Vote, the Greffe Filing and How to Fix a Late Filing

Foreign owner of a French SARL or SAS? Approve the annual accounts within six months, file them at the greffe within one month, and fix a late filing before the daily fine, criminal penalty …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Franchising Your Foreign Brand Into France From Abroad: the Loi Doubin File, the 20-Day DIP, and How to Sign a Contract That Survives

Foreign brand entering France without a subsidiary: Loi Doubin disclosure, 20-day DIP contents and proof, forecast case law, vehicle choice, and clean renewal or exit.

Contracts and business

Your Foreign Company Recruits Its First Salespeople in France: Employee, Commercial Agent or Distributor

Foreign company recruiting its first salespeople in France: employee, commercial agent or distributor compared on costs, contracts, requalification risk and termination bills.

Contracts and business

Your First Hire in France Is Not Working and You Live Abroad: Dismissing Legally, Paying Severance and Surviving the Prudhommes

First French hire not working out? A foreign founder's guide to lawful dismissal in France: procedure, rupture conventionnelle, severance math, Macron scale and the 12-month deadline.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Shop, Office or Warehouse From Abroad: Signing the 3-6-9 Commercial Lease, Paying the Right Rent and Surviving Renewal or Eviction

Foreign founder renting business premises in France? How the 9-year 3-6-9 lease works, how renewal rent is capped, and how to claim eviction compensation from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Distributor Is Failing You and You Run the Business From Abroad: Ending the Contract, Recovering Stock and Money, and Avoiding Requalification as a Commercial Agent

Foreign supplier with a failing French distributor? Written notice scaled to the relationship, serious-breach exit, stock recovery via retention of title, and how to defeat requalification a …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

You Bought a French Company From Abroad and Hidden Debts Surface: Triggering the Warranty, Proving the Loss and Suing Before the Deadline

Bought a French SAS or SARL from abroad and discovered pre-closing debts? How the garantie d'actif et de passif works, what kills claims, and how to get paid.

Contracts and business

You Live Abroad and Want to Close Your French Company: Dissolution, Debts, Tax Clearance and How to Strike It Off From Abroad

WITHDRAWN: duplicate of existing closing-company guides. Kept as draft.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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