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Contracts and business

Your First French Hire Is on a Fixed-Term Contract and It Ends Soon: Renew, End or Convert Without Creating a Permanent Employee

Your first French hire is on a CDD that ends soon: lawful uses, duration caps, renewals, the 10 percent end bonus and how courts reclassify fixed-term contracts as permanent.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Needs an Office While You Live Abroad: Sign a 3-6-9 Lease, Pay the Deposit, Renew or Face Eviction

How a foreign founder signs a French 3-6-9 commercial lease from abroad: deposit and guarantees, rent indices, renewal rights, eviction pay and termination deadlines.

Contracts and business

Your Brand in France While You Live Abroad: File at the INPI, Beat Opposition and Enforce Your Trademark

Living abroad when you launch in France? Learn how to file your trademark at the INPI, survive the two-month opposition window, prove genuine use and stop copycats from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your Guichet Unique Filing Was Rejected and You Live Abroad: Apostille, Sworn Translation and Getting Your Kbis From Abroad

INPI filing rejected while you live abroad? Apostille, sworn translation, Guichet unique refiling, Kbis, beneficial owners and remedies, step by step.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

How a Foreign Founder Living Abroad Gets Paid by a French Company: Salary vs Dividends, Social Charges and Tax

SAS president or SARL manager living abroad: payroll or self-employed charges, deductible salary with border withholding, dividends voted from profits with withholding, and the annual discip …

Contracts and business

Your Foreign Parent Bills Your French Subsidiary Management Fees While You Live Abroad: Deduction, Transfer Pricing Proof and Withholding

Parent company bills your French SAS for management, IT or brand support? How to deduct the fees, prove the arm's length price and handle French withholding from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Clients Do Not Pay While You Live Abroad: Demand Letters, Injonction de Payer, Late Penalties and Enforcement

Unpaid French invoices for a company run from abroad: formal demand, injonction de payer, ECB-plus-10 penalties, 40-euro fee and enforcement without traveling.

Contracts and business

The French Tax Office Says Your Foreign Company Owes Tax in France While You Live Abroad: Permanent Establishment, Profit Attribution and How to Challenge It

No French subsidiary, no branch, yet Paris claims corporate tax and VAT from your foreign company. How France proves a permanent establishment, how it prices the profit, and how to challenge …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Wants to Hire a Non-EU Employee While You Live Abroad: Work Permit, Talent Passport and Employer Fines

Your French company found the right non-EU hire. French law requires the work permit before day one: standard employee route or Talent-qualified card, employer filing from abroad, verificati …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Contractor Was Really an Employee and You Live Abroad: Reclassification, URSSAF Reassessment and Labour Court Defence

Your French contractor works only for you, on your schedule, with your tools. French judges can reclassify the contract as employment. Costs, procedure and the fix from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Received Its First CFE Bill While You Live Abroad: Check It, Cut It or Challenge It Before 15 December

First CFE notice on your French company while you live abroad? Creation-year exemption, minimum base, Paris rate, 15 December payment and how to challenge from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your First French Employee Agrees to Leave While You Live Abroad: Rupture Conventionnelle, Severance, Homologation and What to Do If Approval Fails

Your first French hire is not working out and you live abroad. This guide explains how to sign a rupture conventionnelle at a distance, compute the minimum severance to the euro, obtain appr …

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