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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.

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Contracts and business

You Run a French Company From Abroad: Pay Corporate Tax on Time, Get the Instalments Right and Challenge a Reassessment

Foreign owner guide to French corporate tax: 25 percent rate, four instalments, filing from abroad, transfer-pricing risks and how to challenge a reassessment.

News

Divorced in England, Pension in France After Brexit: Enforcing Your English Pension Sharing Order and Challenging a Refusal

English divorce and pension sharing order after Brexit: is the divorce recognised in France, how to enforce the pension share, how France taxes it and how to challenge a refusal.

News

British SIPP Transfer to France After Brexit: QROPS Rules, the 25% Overseas Charge, French Tax and How to Challenge the Bill

British SIPP and a move to France after Brexit: QROPS recognition, the 25 percent overseas transfer charge, French worldwide taxation under treaty Article 18, the 7.5 percent capital option …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Needs Premises While You Live Abroad: Sign a 3/6/9 Commercial Lease, Control the Rent and Survive Non-Renewal

Foreign founder renting offices, shops or workshops in France: 3/6/9 lease or short-term lease, deposit cap, charges, triennial rent revision, termination orders and eviction compensation ex …

Tax and estate
Tax and estate

British in France After Brexit: How Assurance-Vie Protects Your Spouse, Cuts Succession Tax and Lets You Challenge an Insurer That Will Not Pay

French assurance-vie lets British residents pass capital outside the succession, often tax-free to a spouse: the 152,500 euro allowance, the age-70 divide, the British traps, and how courts …

Contracts and business

You Want to Franchise Your Concept in France While Living Abroad: Disclose, Sign, Renew or Terminate Without Losing the Network

You run a business abroad and want franchisees in France: this guide explains the 20-day disclosure document, what a valid franchise agreement must contain, and how to renew or end it from a …

News

British Tenant in France After Brexit: Getting Your Deposit Back, Challenging Unfair Deductions and Taking Your Landlord to Court

Your French landlord keeps your deposit after Brexit? Deadlines, the 10 percent monthly penalty, deductions to refuse and the housing judge path.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Has Been Served With a Writ While You Live Abroad: Answer Before the Commercial Court, Count Your Extra Deadlines and Avoid a Default Judgment

Served with a French commercial court writ while living abroad? Learn how to check the summons, count your two-month distance extension, appoint a representative and build a defence file tha …

Company law

You Already Own a French House Directly: Should Your British Family Transfer It Into an SCI After Brexit — Apport Costs, Tax Traps and How to Challenge the Bill

British family already owning a French house outright: how transferring it into an SCI works after Brexit, what the apport costs in duties and capital gains tax, and how succession, yearly f …

Contracts and business

Your French Client Has Not Paid Your Invoice and You Live Abroad: Formal Demand, Injunction to Pay and Enforcement Without Coming to France

Your French client ignores your invoice and you run the company from abroad. This guide explains French payment terms, automatic late penalties, the formal demand, the injunction-to-pay orde …

Tax and estate

British State Pension in France After Brexit: Where It Is Taxed, How to Declare It, and How to Challenge Double Tax and CSG

British State Pension and French tax residence after Brexit: Article 18 taxation in France, declaration on forms 2047 and 2042, S1 exemption from CSG and CRDS, and how to challenge double ta …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

You Live Abroad and Your French Company Made a Profit: How to Vote Dividends, Keep Only the Treaty Withholding and Reclaim the Excess

Your French company made a profit and you live abroad. This guide explains how to vote the dividend from outside France, which French withholding applies, how treaties cap it and how to recl …

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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