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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 …

Contracts and business

Your First French Sales Hire Misses Every Target While You Live Abroad: Set the Commission Right, Count the Real Cost and Dismiss Without Losing in Court

Fixed salary plus commission, payslip and social charges, written targets, prior meeting and severance: how a foreign founder hires a first French salesperson and parts ways lawfully.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes Corporate Tax While You Live Abroad: IS Rate, Instalments, Filing and Paying From Abroad

Your French company pays 25 percent corporate tax in four instalments with one annual return. Calendar, forms and penalties, managed entirely from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your First French Employee Committed Misconduct While You Live Abroad: Run the Disciplinary Dismissal Without Losing at the Labour Court

Minor, serious or gross misconduct, the two-month guillotine restated by the Court of Cassation on 15 October 2025, summons, meeting, reasoned letter, final pay and labour court defence: the …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Pays Dividends to You Personally While You Live Abroad: 12.8% Levy, Treaty Relief and Getting the Excess Back

Non-resident individual shareholder of a French company? 12.8% withholding, treaty caps, forms 5000/5001 and refund from abroad explained.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Declare Its Beneficial Owners While You Live Abroad: Identify Them, File the RBE and Avoid Strike-Off and Criminal Fines

Your French company must declare the living individuals who own or control it, update the RBE register within thirty days of any change, and face injunction, strike-off and criminal fines if …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Switch to E-Invoicing While You Live Abroad: Receive From September 2026, Issue on Time and Report Every Flow

From 1 September 2026 your French company must receive e-invoices through a compliant platform, issue them in structured format on a staggered calendar, and report B2C and cross-border data. …

Contracts and business

Your Guichet Unique Filing Was Rejected While You Live Abroad: Fix the Rejection, File Again and Get Your Kbis Without Flying to France

Guichet unique rejected your French company filing from abroad? Fix each defect, refile, protect pre-registration acts, then handle RBE, bank, VAT and invoices.

Contracts and business

Your First French Employee Is Declared Unfit for Work While You Live Abroad: Redeployment Search, Dismissal and the Double Severance Trap

The occupational doctor has declared your first French employee unfit for their job. This guide explains the redeployment search, the one-month salary trap, the dismissal procedure and the d …

Contracts and business

You Hired a Freelancer in France While Living Abroad: When Your Contractor Becomes Your Employee, What URSSAF Bills and How to Respond

Your French freelancer may legally be your employee. Subordination test, URSSAF reassessment, labour court back pay and how foreign founders respond from abroad.

Contracts and business

You Live Abroad and Must Part Ways With Your French Employee: Mutual Separation, Homologation and the Price of a Clean Exit

Your French employee must go and you live abroad. How the mutual separation works: meetings, minimum payout, 15-day withdrawal, homologation, and what a challenge costs.

Contracts and business

My French Company Must Switch to E-Invoicing While I Live Abroad: September Deadlines, Approved Platform and Penalties

WITHDRAWN AS DUPLICATE of 2026-10-06 e-invoicing article. Draft only.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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