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French law in practice

Practical guides to French property and business law for readers dealing with French notaries, landlords, companies or courts from abroad, and analysis of current legal news.

Written by Maître Reda Kohen, member of the Paris Bar. About Maître Reda Kohen

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Contracts and business

Your French Bank Just Refused Your Company’s Account While You Live Abroad: Droit au Compte, Documents, Deadlines and Remedies

Your French company's bank account was refused while you live abroad. This guide explains why banks decline foreign-held files and how the droit au compte procedure before the Banque de Fran …

Company law

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.

Banking, insurance and consumers

British Resident in France Selling Your English Buy-to-Let After Brexit: UK Capital Gains Tax, French Tax and the Credit That Stops Double Tax

Living in France and selling your English buy-to-let? Britain taxes the gain first with a 60-day return, France taxes it again, and the treaty credit stops the double bill.

Contracts and business

Branch or Subsidiary in France: How a Foreign Company Registers, Pays Tax, Hires and Closes Down

A branch lets your foreign company trade in France without creating a French company, but it gives you no liability shield and carries its own tax, filing and hiring duties. This guide compa …

Property

Adverse Possession in France: How a Neighbour Can Legally Claim Your Land — and How Absentee Owners Fight Back

A neighbour using your French land for 30 years can become its owner. How prescription acquisitive works and how foreign owners defend.

Tax and estate

British Parents Gifting Your French House to Your Children After Brexit: Donation, Retained Usufruit, Reserve and Challenging the Tax Bill

British parents can give a French house to their children during their lifetime, keep the right to live in it, and divide it fairly in one family deed. This guide explains notarial form, the …

Contracts and business

You Run Your Company From Abroad and Send Staff to Work in France: Posted-Worker Declarations, A1 Certificates and Fines

Sending an employee to work in France from abroad triggers two prior filings — the SIPSI posting declaration and the A1 social-security certificate — plus French pay rules and fines of up to …

News

British Employee in France Offered a Rupture Conventionnelle After Brexit: Homologation, Indemnity and How to Challenge a Refusal or a Forced Signature

Asked to sign a rupture conventionnelle on your French permanent contract? How the 15-day withdrawal period, DREETS approval, minimum termination payment and labour-court challenge work for …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Is Blocked Because Your Beneficial Owners Are Not Declared and You Live Abroad: File the RBE, Fix Rejection and Avoid the Fine

Foreign founder living abroad? Declare your French beneficial owners via the Guichet unique, fix RBE rejection within 30 days, and avoid injunction, removal and fines.

Property

Developer Insolvent Mid-Build in France: How Foreign Off-Plan Buyers Call the Completion Guarantee and Protect Their Payments

Your French developer has stopped work or entered insolvency: who finishes your off-plan flat, how the completion or refund guarantee is called, and how foreign buyers protect stage payments …

News

British Resident in France After Brexit: Your 10-Year Carte de Resident, the Five-Year, Income and French Tests, and How to Challenge a Refusal

Five years in France opens the door to a 10-year EU long-term resident card. Income, French and residence tests explained, with refusal remedies.

Contracts and business

Your French Company and French VAT While You Live Abroad: Registration, Thresholds, Returns, Refunds and Challenging a Reassessment

Running a French company from abroad? Registration, franchise thresholds, 20% rate, invoicing, deduction deadlines, VAT refunds and how to challenge a reassessment.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

Partner, member of the Paris Bar, 11 rue Margueritte, 75017 Paris. Author of the analyses published in this journal. About