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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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Closing Your French Company From Abroad: Dissolution, Liquidation, Tax Clearance and Strike-Off
You live abroad and want to shut your French SAS or SARL cleanly: remote dissolution vote, liquidator duties, staff dismissal, final corporate tax, VAT and URSSAF bills, partition duty, and …
Living in France When Someone Dies in England After Brexit: What a British Resident Declares, Where Each Asset Is Taxed, and How to Challenge Double Tax
A parent dies in England and you live in France: French worldwide duties, the 1963 treaty credit on form 2740, probate, the twelve-month deadline and how to challenge the bill.
Your French Subsidiary Is Billed Management Fees by Its Foreign Parent and the Tax Office Rejects the Deduction: Article 57, Proof and How to Challenge From Abroad
Your French subsidiary pays management fees to its foreign parent and the tax office adds them back under Article 57 CGI. This guide explains the presumption, the triple proof of real servic …
Your French Second Home Just Got a 60% Tax Surcharge After Brexit: How the Majoration Works and How a British Owner Challenges It
British owner facing the 60% taxe d'habitation surcharge on a French second home: how the majoration works, the three statutory exemptions, and how to challenge the bill before 31 December.
Your French Company Registration Is Stuck and You Live Abroad: Guichet Unique Rejection, Kbis Delay and How to Unblock the File
Filed your French company from abroad but still no Kbis? Rejection causes, capital and address proof, RBE filing and pre-registration acts explained.
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Stuck in Indivision With Your Siblings Over a French House After Brexit: How a British Co-Heir Forces the Sale or Keeps the Home, and How to Challenge a Blockage
Your sibling refuses to sell the French house you inherited together. A British co-heir's guide to proving your share, forcing a partage and licitation sale, keeping the home through attribu …
Buying a French Company From Abroad in 2026: IEF Foreign Investment Authorization, Filing Steps, Conditions and How to Challenge a Refusal
Buying a French company from abroad in 2026: when IEF authorization is required, how the DG Tresor filing works, what conditions apply, and how to challenge a refusal or sanction.
British Landlord in France After Brexit: Serving a Congé to Sell or Take Back Your Flat, the Winter Truce, and Evicting a Tenant Who Stays
British owner letting a French flat and need it back? This guide covers the congé to sell and the congé to take back: price and offer rules, the real-and-serious test, the over-65 shield, th …
You Must Dismiss Your First French Employee While Living Abroad: Procedure, Notice, Severance and Labour Court Proof
Foreign founder living abroad? Dismiss your first French employee lawfully: 5-day invitation, preliminary meeting, 2-month misconduct rule, notice, severance formula and 12-month labour cour …
Your French Company Pays Its Directors From Abroad: The 20% Forfait Social Bill and How to Challenge the URSSAF Reassessment
Your French company pays directors' fees to accounts abroad and URSSAF adds 20% forfait social over three years. What the levy takes, why foreign payment does not shield the company, and how …
British Second-Home Owner Renting Out Your French Flat Furnished After Brexit: Registration, Rental Tax and How to Challenge the Bill
British owner letting a French flat furnished? Change-of-use authorisation, the 13-character registration number, the post-2024 micro-BIC thresholds and the France-UK treaty, with the routes …
Your Elderly British Parent in France Is Losing Capacity After Brexit: Tutelle, Curatelle, Habilitation Familiale, the English LPA Trap, and How to Challenge the Order
Your elderly British parent in France is losing capacity: which French measure fits — sauvegarde, curatelle, tutelle or habilitation familiale — why the English Lasting Power of Attorney sta …
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