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Selling Your Shares in a French SAS While Living Abroad: Approval Clauses, Transfer Orders, Registration Duty and Price Protection

You live abroad and want to sell your French SAS shares. Approval clauses, transfer orders, the one-month 0.1 percent registration duty and price protection explained.

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You Appointed Yourself President of Your French SAS and Live Abroad: Social Status, Charges, Health Cover and What URSSAF Checks

SAS president and living abroad? Assimilated-employee status, executive-level charges, health cover gaps and URSSAF controls, explained with the 2025 case law.

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Your French SAS Co-Founder Blocks Every Decision While You Live Abroad: Deadlock, Forced Exclusion and Court-Ordered Buyout

Your French SAS is paralysed by a co-founder while you live abroad. This guide shows how to use approval, inalienability and exclusion clauses, price the forced buyout through agreement or a …

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Your French Company Needs Cash While You Live Abroad: Increase Capital, Protect Preferential Rights and File From Abroad

Your French company needs cash and you live abroad: increase capital, defend preferential rights and file the Kbis update without flying to France.

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British S1 Holder in France Charged CSG-CRDS on Rental Income, Interest and Capital Gains After Brexit: The 7.5% Solidarity Rule and How to Claim the Refund

British S1 holder in France paying 17.2% social charges on rental income, interest or capital gains? Only the 7.5% solidarity levy is normally due. Exemption, proof and refund explained.

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Your French Bank Says No While You Live Abroad: Deposit Capital, Get the Blocked-Funds Certificate and Open the Corporate Account

Forming a French company from abroad? How to deposit the capital, get the blocked-funds certificate and force the operating account open when banks resist.

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Raise Capital in Your French Company While Living Abroad: New Shares, Preferential Rights and Dilution

Bring an investor into your SAS or SARL from abroad: vote the increase, protect preferential rights, deposit funds, value contributions and file within the month.

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You Live in France and You Just Sold Your House in England After Brexit: UK Tax in 60 Days, the French Bill, and How to Challenge Double Tax

French resident selling your UK house? HMRC wants its Capital Gains Tax within 60 days, France taxes the worldwide gain too, and the 2008 treaty credit stops double tax. Forms, deadlines and …

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British Family Selling a French Home Held in an SCI After Brexit: Share Deal or Property Deal, Tax, Approval Rights and How to Challenge the Bill

Sell your SCI shares or make the SCI sell the house? A British seller's guide to approval rights, the 5% duty, capital gains tax, the treaty and challenging the bill.

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You Were Appointed President of a French SAS While Living Abroad: Social Security Status, Payslips, and What You Really Owe URSSAF

Non-resident president of a French SAS? Your assimilated-employee status, salary versus dividends costs, and how to face an URSSAF control from abroad.

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Your French Bank Refuses Your Company’s Account While You Live Abroad: Deposit the Capital, Get the Blocked-Funds Certificate and Enforce Your Right to an Account

Bank refusing your French company's account from abroad? Deposit the capital, secure the blocked-funds certificate and use the Banque de France designation to get an account.

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Your French Bank Said No While You Live Abroad: Deposit the Capital, Enforce the Right to an Account and Unlock Your Kbis

WITHDRAWN BY THE AUTHOR: this page duplicated a September 2026 article on the same bank-refusal procedure and has been retired to avoid Reader confusion.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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