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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

Hiring Your First Employee in France While Living Abroad: DPAE, Contract, Trial Period, Payslips, DSN and Health Cover

Foreign founder hiring a first employee in France from abroad: DPAE deadline, contract, trial period, payslips, DSN, health cover, costs and penalties.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Made a Profit and You Live Abroad: Dividends, Withholding Tax and How to Get the Money Out

Your French company is profitable and you live abroad. How to vote and pay the dividend lawfully, cut the French withholding tax with treaties, and reclaim overpaid tax before the deadline.

News

British Couple Divorcing in France After Brexit: Where to File, Which Law Applies, and How to Get England to Recognise It

British couple living in France after Brexit? Where to file for divorce, which of the four French routes fits, why filing order beats the old first-seised rule, and how to get England to rec …

Contracts and business

You Must Dismiss Your Employee in France While You Live Abroad: Procedure, Severance Pay and Labour Court Risk

Dismissing your French employee from abroad? The mandatory summons, five-day wait, dismissal letter, severance calculation and Macron scale explained for foreign founders.

News

British Buyer, French House With Hidden Defects After Brexit: Proving the Vice Cache, Using the Diagnostics File, and Suing in Time

Bought a French house with damp, cracks or shocking energy bills? How British buyers prove a vice cache, use the diagnostics file and sue within two years.

News

Retired in France After Brexit: How a British Retiree Gets and Keeps the Visiteur Card, Proves Pension Income and Health Cover, and Challenges a Refusal or Removal Order

British retiree in France after Brexit: the visiteur card income threshold, health insurance and no-work undertaking, renewal traps, and how to challenge a refusal or removal order.

Contracts and business

Your French Contractor Claims to Be Your Employee While You Live Abroad: Reclassification, Back Pay, the URSSAF Bill and How to Challenge

Your French freelancer claims employee status and URSSAF announces a payroll control. This guide explains the subordination test, the full cost of reclassification and how to challenge each …

Tax and estate

British Resident in France With UK Rental Income After Brexit: Where the Rent Is Taxed, How France Calculates the Credit, and How to Challenge Double Tax

You live in France and let a flat in Britain. Both countries tax the rent, but the Franco-British treaty gives France a credit equal to the French tax. How the credit works, what to declare …

Contracts and business

You Run Your French Company From Abroad and Want a French Employment Contract Too: Combining a Director’s Mandate With Employee Status

Foreign founder and company director living abroad: when French courts accept combining a director's mandate with an employment contract, and how to declare and defend it.

Tax and estate

Living in Britain, Letting Your French Flat Unfurnished After Brexit: How France Taxes the Rent, Which Return to File, and How to Challenge the Bill

British, UK-resident and letting an unfurnished French flat? How France taxes the rent, micro-foncier or actual expenses, and how to challenge the bill.

Contracts and business

You Live Abroad and Fund Your French Company With a Shareholder Loan: Interest Caps, Tax and Getting Repaid

A foreign shareholder can fund a French SAS or SARL through a shareholder current account: written agreement, capped deductible interest, withholding for non-residents, and repayment claimed …

Tax and estate
Tax and estate

British Resident in France After Brexit: How Assurance-Vie Protects Your Spouse, Cuts Succession Tax, and How to Challenge a Refusal or Reassessment

British in France after Brexit: how assurance-vie passes outside the succession, the 152,500-euro allowance and 20/31.25 per cent levy, the over-70 rule, domicile traps, and how to challenge …

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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