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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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News

My English Will Leaves My French House to My Spouse: Will France Honour It After Brexit?

British in France after Brexit: which law governs your French house, whether your English will can choose English law, how the children's forced share is calculated, and how to make the will …

Tax and estate

British Owners Face France’s Wealth Tax (IFI) After Brexit: Who Pays, How the Bill Is Worked Out, and How to Challenge It

British owner with French property over 1.3m euros? Who pays France's IFI wealth tax after Brexit, how the bill is calculated, and how to challenge it.

Contracts and business

Your French Company and VAT While You Live Abroad: Get the Number, Charge the Right Rate, File From Afar and Fix Mistakes

Your French company is registered but the VAT number has not arrived, customers challenge your invoices and returns pile up. This guide shows foreign owners how to get the number, charge the …

Property

Buying French Property in Split Ownership: Usufruit and Nue-Propriete — A Foreign Buyer’s Legal Guide

Bare ownership in France sells at a deep discount while a usufructuary keeps the use. Price scale, deed, works, charges, taxes and exit traps for foreign buyers.

News

British Licence in France After Brexit: Pre-2021 Recognition, the One-Year ANTS Exchange Deadline, and How to Challenge a Refusal

Pre-2021 UK licences stay recognised while valid; licences issued from 2021 face a one-year exchange deadline on ANTS. Rules, Paris practicalities, and how to challenge a refusal or prosecut …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Faces a Tax Audit While You Live Abroad: Answer the Inspector, Defuse the Reassessment and Appeal From Abroad

Tax audit of your French company while you live abroad: audit notice, three-month clock, oral debate, reasoned reassessment, formal complaint, suspended payment and court appeal.

News

British Divorce and the English Pension Sharing Order in France After Brexit: Enforcement, Tax and How to Challenge a Blockage

Divorced in England with a pension sharing order and living in France? How exequatur, the prestation compensatoire and the France-UK treaty decide enforcement and tax.

Tax and estate

Your British Parent Died Owning a House in France After Brexit: Probate, the Notaire, Succession Tax and How to Unblock the Estate

Your British parent died owning a French house. This guide explains English probate recognition, will registration, forced heirship, succession tax and how to unblock the estate.

Contracts and business

You Own a French Company From Abroad: Declare Your Beneficial Owners, Update the Register on Time and Avoid the EUR 200,000 Fine

French companies must declare the natural persons who ultimately own or control them to the beneficial ownership register and update it within thirty days of any change. Who counts across a …

Co-ownership and neighbours

Syndic Demands for Unpaid Copropriete Charges in France: How Absent Foreign Owners Respond, Challenge and Protect Their Sale

Syndic chasing unpaid French co-ownership charges across borders? Legal mortgage, sale-blocking opposition, five-year limit and how absent foreign owners verify, challenge and sell safely.

Insolvency
Insolvency

Your French Company Closes With Cash Left Over: Surplus Tax, Withholding Abroad and How to Reclaim the Excess

Your French SAS or SARL closes with cash left: how the boni is computed, the 2.5 percent duty, withholding for shareholders abroad and how to challenge or reclaim.

Tax and estate
Tax and estate

British Resident in France After Brexit: How a French Assurance-Vie Protects Your Spouse, Cuts Succession Tax and Survives a Challenge

How a French assurance-vie shelters 152,500 euros per beneficiary, protects a surviving spouse outside the succession, and what wording survives an excessive-premiums claim or a refused payo …

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