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Contracts and business

Your French Company Wants to Hire a Freelancer While You Live Abroad: Reclassification, URSSAF Back-Charges and the Safe Contract

Hiring a freelancer for your French company while living abroad risks reclassification as employment. A Paris lawyer explains the court test, URSSAF controls and three safe hiring routes.

Contracts and business

Your French Company and Mandatory E-Invoicing Since September 2026: Receive, Issue, Report Foreign Sales and Avoid Fines

Since 1 September 2026 every French company must receive e-invoices. A foreign owner's guide to platforms, e-reporting, fines and VAT deduction.

Contracts and business

Your Foreign Company Wants Business in France Without a Subsidiary: Branch (Succursale) vs Liaison Office, Registration, Tax and How to Close or Convert

Branch or liaison office in France? Registration on the guichet unique, corporate tax, VAT, payroll, closure and conversion to a subsidiary, for foreign owners.

Contracts and business

You Hired Your First Employee in France and Live Abroad: How to Dismiss Lawfully, Negotiate a Rupture Conventionnelle and Win Before the Prudhommes

Dismissing your first French employee from abroad: CDI procedure, severance costs, Macron scale, rupture conventionnelle approval and prudhommes defence.

Contracts and business

Your French Subsidiary Pays Management Fees to Its Foreign Parent and You Live Abroad: Deduction, Transfer Pricing Proof and How to Challenge a Reassessment

Your French subsidiary pays management fees to its foreign parent and the auditor rejects the deduction. Real services, market price, transfer-pricing proof, withholding tax and how to chall …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Signed a 3/6/9 Commercial Lease and You Live Abroad: Deposit, Rent, Renewal and How to Exit Early

Foreign founder with a French 3/6/9 commercial lease? Duration, deposit, rent review, renewal, early exit and eviction pay explained, with remedies you can run from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Voted Dividends and You Live Abroad: Withholding Tax, Treaty Relief and How to Bring the Money Home

Your French company voted dividends but you live abroad: who votes, when the money must arrive, which French withholding applies, how your tax treaty cuts it and how to recover overpaid tax …

Contracts and business

French Bank Calls In Your Personal Guarantee and You Live Abroad: How a Foreign Director Challenges the Caution, Cuts the Bill and Gets Time to Pay

Your French company's bank demands payment under the personal guarantee you signed as a foreign director. This guide explains how to challenge the caution, cut disproportionate amounts and i …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Received a Tax Audit Notice and You Live Abroad: verification de comptabilite, URSSAF Control and How to Challenge the Bill

Tax audit (verification de comptabilite) and URSSAF control against your French company while you live abroad: notices, adversarial procedure, penalties, CRA, courts and deadlines to challen …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Has No Declared Beneficial Owner and You Live Abroad: How to File the RBE, Fix a Rejection and Challenge Fines

Foreign owner of a French SAS or SARL? Who counts as a beneficial owner, how to file the RBE from abroad, and how to challenge injunctions and fines.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Has No Address in France and You Live Abroad: Domiciliation, Transfer of Registered Office and How to Fix a Greffe Rejection

Foreign founder with no usable French address? Domiciliation contract with an approved provider, proof of occupancy, SAS and SARL seat-transfer votes, one-month publication and filing, and h …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Goes Bust and You Live Abroad: When You Pay Its Debts and How to Defend Yourself

French company insolvent? A foreign director can face shortfall claims, guarantees and tax bills. Two 2024-2026 rulings, the 45-day duty and an abroad checklist.

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Maître Reda Kohen

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