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Contracts and business

Your French Company Never Declared Its Beneficial Owner: Court Order, 200000-Euro Fine and How a Foreign Owner Fixes It From Abroad

Foreign owner of a French SAS or SARL with no beneficial-owner filing? Injunction, daily fines and a 200000-euro penalty: what French law says and how to regularise from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Pays You Dividends While You Live Abroad: French Withholding Tax, Treaty Relief and Reclaiming the Excess

France withholds 12.8% from dividends paid to individuals abroad and 25% from payments to foreign companies. This guide explains which profits can be distributed, how treaties and the EU par …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Pays You Interest on Your Shareholder Loan: Deductible Cap Rate, French Tax and Treaty Relief From Abroad

Foreign founder guide: how French law caps deductible interest on your shareholder current-account advance, how France taxes that interest when you live abroad, and how to recover excess wit …

Contracts and business

Your French Contractor Is Really an Employee: URSSAF Reclassification, Back-Charges and How a Foreign Company Contests From Abroad

Your French freelancer may legally be your employee already. URSSAF back-charges, the 35 percent surcharge, five years back, six months salary and the reply deadlines a foreign company must …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Hired Its 11th Employee: CSE Elections, Obstruction Fine and How a Foreign Owner Organises the Vote From Abroad

Your French headcount just reached eleven: when CSE elections become mandatory, how the twelve-month count works, the ninety-day timetable, and the criminal obstruction fine for doing nothin …

Contracts and business

Your French Employee Asks for a Rupture Conventionnelle: Severance Floor, Homologation and How a Foreign Employer Signs From Abroad

Rupture conventionnelle for foreign employers in France: interviews, fifteen-day withdrawal, statutory severance floor, DREETS homologation and consent traps.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Received a URSSAF Mise en Demeure: Contributions, Penalties and How a Foreign Owner Contests From Abroad

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Contracts and business

Your French Company Issues Non-Compliant Invoices: Mandatory Mentions, Fines, Late-Payment Interest and E-Invoicing Fixed From Abroad

Foreign founder? Learn which mentions every French B2B invoice must show, what each omission costs, how ECB-plus-10 late interest and the 40 euro fee work, and how to switch to e-invoicing f …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Missed Filing Its Annual Accounts: Greffe Order, Fine and How a Foreign Owner Files Late From Abroad

Your French SARL or SAS never filed its annual accounts at the greffe? Court order under daily penalty, personal liability and the step-by-step late repair from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Cannot Pay: When You as a Foreign Director Must Pay Its Debts From Your Own Pocket

French liquidation or bank guarantee reaching your personal assets? Foreign directors: shortfall liability, personal guarantees and defences.

Contracts and business

Your French Employee Committed Serious Misconduct: How a Foreign Employer Runs a Disciplinary Dismissal From Abroad

A foreign employer's guide to disciplinary dismissal in France: the two-month rule, precautionary suspension, summons and notification letters, severance differences and the Macron scale con …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Landlord Refuses to Renew Your Commercial Lease: How a Foreign Company Contests the Notice, Claims the Eviction Indemnity and Controls the New Rent From Abroad

Your French landlord refuses to renew your commercial lease or demands an uncapped rent. This English guide for foreign owners explains the six-month conge, the eviction indemnity, disguised …

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