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Contracts and business

Your First French Hire Is Still on Probation While You Live Abroad: How to End the Trial Period, Count the Notice and Defeat a Labour Court Claim

You hired your first employee in France and the trial period is not working out. This guide explains how long probation can last, how to count the employer notice day by day, and how to prov …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes You Money While You Live Abroad: Shareholder Loans, Blocked Repayment and Interest Tax Traps

You lent money to your French company from abroad and cannot get it back. How shareholder current accounts are repaid on demand, when blocking agreements stop you, and how to charge interest …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Switch to E-Invoicing While You Live Abroad: 2026-2027 Deadlines, Approved Platforms and Fines

Since 1 September 2026 your French company must receive e-invoices via an approved platform. Issue dates, e-reporting and fines explained for founders abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Subsidiary Paid You a Dividend While You Live Abroad: French Withholding, EU Exemption and How to Recover the Overpaid Tax

Your French SAS or SARL voted a dividend while you live abroad. France withholds tax at source under Article 119 bis, but treaties cap it and the EU mother-subsidiary exemption can bring it …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Got a Tax Audit Notice While You Live Abroad: Verification, Rectification and How to Challenge the Bill

Your French company received an avis de verification while you live abroad. This guide walks you through the audit notice, the on-site verification, the reasoned reassessment proposal and ev …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Earns Nothing While You Live Abroad: Put It to Sleep, Freeze the Bills and Wake It Up or Close It Later

French company idle while you live abroad? Declare mise en sommeil within one month, freeze VAT, cut CFE after a year, then resume, sell or close before two years.

Contracts and business

Your French Client Does Not Pay While You Live Abroad: Formal Notice, Payment Order, Interim Provision and Enforcement

A French customer received your goods or services and stopped answering. This guide shows how to send a formal notice that starts interest running, add automatic late penalties and the 40-eu …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Needs Premises in Paris While You Live Abroad: Sign, Price and Exit a Commercial Lease Without Losing the Business

Foreign founder living abroad? Learn how to sign a Paris commercial lease, negotiate deposit and rent, and secure renewal or exit without losing your business.

Contracts and business

Buy Your Paris Business From Abroad: Take Over the Shop, the Lease and the Customers Without Inheriting the Seller’s Debts

Foreign buyer? How to acquire a French fonds de commerce from abroad: landlord consent, lease assignment, creditor oppositions, price escrow and registration duties.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Needs a VAT Number While You Live Abroad: Registration, CA3 Returns and Reverse Charge

Foreign founder? When France requires a VAT number, how the SIEE registers you, how CA3 returns and reverse charge work, and which penalties to avoid.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Received Its First CFE Bill While You Live Abroad: Minimum Base, Domiciliation Trap and How to Challenge Before 15 December

First CFE notice for your French company while you live abroad? Minimum base, domiciliation trap, creation-year exemption and how to challenge before 15 December.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Crossed the Auditor Thresholds While You Live Abroad: Appoint the Statutory Auditor, File and Avoid Criminal Liability

Your French SAS or SARL crossed two of the three audit thresholds while you live abroad. This guide explains when a statutory auditor (commissaire aux comptes) becomes mandatory, how minorit …

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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