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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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Your French Customer Has Not Paid and You Live Abroad: Injonction de Payer, European Payment Order, Late Penalties and Seizure From Outside France
Your French customer has not paid and you live abroad. French law adds automatic late penalties at ECB plus ten points and a 40-euro recovery fee, gives you three fast tracks including the E …
Give Your French House to Your Children While You Keep Living in It After Brexit: Donation-Partage, Reserved Usufruit, British Tax and How to Challenge the Bill
British owner giving your French house to your children while keeping the usufruit: donation-partage, gift tax, the UK seven-year rule and how to challenge the bill.
Foreign Founder Choosing Between SAS, SARL, Branch and Subsidiary in France: Liability, Tax, Registration and How to Fix a Wrong Choice From Abroad
SAS, SARL, French subsidiary or branch: what each vehicle really costs a foreign founder in liability, tax and control, how to register from abroad and get the Kbis, and how to fix the wrong …
News
Your Husband Died With a House in France After Brexit: What the British Surviving Spouse Inherits, How to Keep the Home, and How to Challenge a Blockage
A British husband or wife dies owning a house in France. This guide explains what the surviving spouse inherits, the free first year and the lifelong housing right that must be claimed withi …
Your French Company Made a Profit and You Live Abroad: How to Bring the Money Home Through Dividends, Withholding Tax, Treaties and Refunds
Your French company is profitable and you live abroad. This English guide explains how to vote dividends lawfully, avoid fictitious distributions, apply the French withholding tax, use tax t …
Tax and estate
British Heir, French Succession After Brexit: London Gifts Added Back Within Fifteen Years, Equality Between Siblings and Challenging an English Will That Cuts Out the Children
A London deposit gift, an English will favouring the second spouse, a French flat. This guide explains the fifteen-year adding back of British gifts, equality between siblings, the reserved …
Contracts and business
Your French Company Has No Valid Address and You Live Abroad: Domiciliation, Commercial Lease, Greffe Rejection and How to Fix It From Abroad
Foreign founder living abroad: give your French company a valid registered office, pass the greffe check with domiciliation or a lease, and avoid a nine-year trap.
Your French Company Owes You Money While You Live Abroad: Turn the Shareholder Loan Into Capital by Set-Off, Certificate and Filing
You live abroad and your French SAS or SARL owes you money: when converting the shareholder advance into capital beats repayment, and how to vote, certify and file from abroad.
British Savers in France After Brexit: Can You Keep a PEA With UK Shares, How Is It Taxed, and How Do You Challenge Closure or the Tax Bill
British resident in France with a PEA holding UK shares? UK shares became ineligible on 1 January 2021. This guide explains who can keep a PEA, the 9-month tolerance, tax after five years, c …
News
My UK ISA Was Tax-Free in Britain, Why Does France Tax It After Brexit: How a British Resident Declares ISA Interest and Dividends, Pays French Tax and Challenges Double Tax
Your ISA is tax-free in Britain but fully taxable once you are French resident. This guide shows how to declare ISA interest and dividends, which treaty rule removes double tax, and how to c …
Your French Bank Says No While You Live Abroad: Capital Deposit, Blocked Funds and the Right to an Account
Foreign founder blocked by a French bank refusal: how to deposit share capital from abroad, obtain the certificate, secure the Kbis and use the statutory right to an account.
British Family Already Owns Its French House Through an SCI After Brexit: Running It Year by Year, Selling or Giving Shares, Leaving, and Challenging a Refusal or a Tax Bill
Your British family already holds its French house in an SCI. How to run it year by year, file its French taxes, move shares between generations, leave the company, and challenge a refusal o …
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