If you run a French company from London, New York, Dubai or Singapore, 1 September 2026 changes the way you bill your French customers, recover French value added tax (VAT, known in France as TVA, taxe sur la valeur ajout\u00e9e) and prove your turnover to the French tax authority (DGFIP, direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des finances publiques). From that date your company must be able to receive electronic invoices, and if it is a large or intermediate-sized enterprise (ISE, entreprise de taille interm\u00e9diaire) it must also issue every domestic business-to-business (B2B) invoice in electronic form through a government-registered platform. Small businesses follow one year later, on 1 September 2027. The same timetable applies to e-reporting, the electronic transmission of transaction and payment data for deals that fall outside e-invoicing, including sales to private individuals and cross-border transactions. A foreign founder who ignores this reform risks rejected VAT deductions, unenforceable late-payment penalties and administrative fines of up to 375,000 euros for a legal entity. This guide explains, entirely in practical terms, the calendar that applies to your French company when you live abroad, the platform you must choose before the deadline, the e-reporting duties that catch your foreign transactions even without a French permanent establishment, and the invoice discipline that protects your cash flow: mandatory details, payment deadlines, penalty rates and the VAT deduction cut-off dates confirmed by the Cour de cassation (the French supreme court for civil and commercial matters).<\/p>\n
France is generalising electronic invoicing to every company liable for VAT, and the starting gun fires on 1 September 2026. For a foreign owner this is an organisational challenge rather than a tax increase: you must equip your French company with compliant software or a service provider, register on the official directory, and train whoever issues your invoices, even if that person works outside France. The two sub-sections below set out who must do what by which date, then explain how cross-border sales remain visible to the tax authority through e-reporting.<\/p>\n
The reform covers all purchase and sale transactions of goods and services between companies established in France that are liable for VAT. The French tax authority explains that e-invoicing covers domestic business-to-business sales of goods and services between companies established in France that are liable for VAT, including businesses under the VAT exemption scheme. In other words, even a small French subsidiary that benefits from the VAT exemption for small businesses (franchise en base de TVA) is inside the scope, and so is your company from the moment it is liable for French VAT. The same official pages stress that the reform applies regardless of turnover, legal form or tax regime, so micro-enterprises and self-employed businesses are covered too. The administration also warns that businesses which never issue invoices are still affected, because they must be able to receive electronic invoices from suppliers and may have to transmit additional data to the tax authority. If your French company only receives invoices from its energy supplier, its telephone operator or its accountant, it must still be ready to receive them electronically.<\/p>\n
The calendar is staggered by company size, and the dates are now fixed on the official English-language pages of the tax authority, last updated on 23 June 2026. The rule is that every company, whatever its size, must be able to receive electronic invoices by 1 September 2026, for example from its energy supplier or its telephone and internet providers, while large and mid-tier companies must also issue all their invoices electronically from that date. Smaller structures get a relief period: small and micro-enterprises, expressly including self-employed businesses, have until 1 September 2027 to start issuing electronically. Using the size categories of French statistics: every French company must be able to receive electronic invoices on 1 September 2026, large enterprises and intermediate-sized enterprises must issue them electronically from that same date, and micro-enterprises, very small enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have until 1 September 2027 to issue electronically. The administration confirms that the same deadlines govern e-reporting, so the timetable below covers both duties at once.<\/p>\n
This calendar has direct consequences for a foreign founder. First, determine the size category of your French company by reference to its French accounts, not the size of your foreign group alone: headcount, turnover and balance sheet thresholds decide whether you issue in 2026 or 2027, while reception is mandatory for everyone in 2026. Second, act during the first half of 2026, because choosing a platform, updating your chart of accounts and testing invoice flows with your main French customers takes several weeks, and your accountant in France will be booked solid as the deadline approaches. Third, remember that the obligation to issue a proper invoice already exists today under article 289 of the French Tax Code (CGI, Code g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des imp\u00f4ts), which provides that “Tout assujetti est tenu de s’assurer qu’une facture est \u00e9mise, par lui-m\u00eame, ou en son nom et pour son compte, par son client ou par un tiers” (every taxable person must ensure that an invoice is issued, by himself, or in his name and on his behalf by his customer or by a third party). The full text is available on L\u00e9gifrance, article 289 of the French Tax Code<\/a>. The reform does not create invoicing; it changes its channel and its format, with structured data such as the SIREN number (the nine-digit identification number issued to every French company by INSEE, the national statistics institute) of the supplier and of the customer, the issue date and the delivery address entered into dedicated fields.<\/p>\n Fourth, register your company correctly from the start, because e-invoicing presupposes a properly identified business. Article 286 of the French Tax Code requires that every VAT taxable person file an identification declaration when activity begins: “Dans les quinze jours du commencement de ses op\u00e9rations, souscrire au bureau d\u00e9sign\u00e9 par un arr\u00eat\u00e9 une d\u00e9claration conforme au mod\u00e8le fourni par l’administration” (within fifteen days of starting operations, file with the office designated by order a declaration following the model supplied by the administration). See L\u00e9gifrance, article 286 of the French Tax Code<\/a>. In practice your company is now registered through the INPI single window (guichet unique, the online portal run by the INPI, Institut national de la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 industrielle, which forwards company filings to the commercial court registry, greffe, and to INSEE), and it receives a SIREN number, a SIRET number (SIREN plus five digits identifying each establishment) and, where applicable, an intra-Community VAT number. Without these identifiers your platform cannot route invoices and the tax authority cannot match your data. Foreign founders who struggled to open a corporate bank account or to obtain their Kbis certificate (Kbis, the official extract proving a French company’s registration, issued by the greffe) will find the detailed steps in our companion guide on setting up a company in France as a foreign founder<\/a>, and the VAT registration mechanics in our guide to French VAT numbers, first returns and penalties for foreign-owned companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fifth, choose your transmission channel. The administration explains that invoices between French companies must travel in electronic format through an approved platform. To issue electronic invoices, receive them and transmit data to the tax authority, each company must select an approved platform: these are government-registered private operators, appointed as partners of the tax authority under a dedicated procedure, offering secure electronic invoicing and data transmission services. These partner platforms are called PDP (plateforme de d\u00e9mat\u00e9rialisation partenaire, partner dematerialisation platform). Alongside them stands the public portal, the PPF (portail public de facturation, public invoicing portal), which provides an open directory and basic services, while Chorus Pro remains the portal for invoices addressed to public bodies. The practical guidance from the tax authority is reassuring for groups, since each company chooses its platform according to its own needs and does not have to use the same one as its suppliers or customers. A foreign group can therefore keep its global enterprise software and connect it to a French PDP, or let its French chartered accountant (expert-comptable) operate the PDP on its behalf under a written mandate. What matters is that by 1 September 2026 your company can receive structured e-invoices, that its SIREN and VAT data are correctly referenced in the national directory, and that invoices issued from that date respect the mandatory structured format rather than a simple PDF attached to an email, which will no longer count as an electronic invoice between French VAT taxable persons.<\/p>\n Many foreign founders assume that sales from abroad to French customers escape the reform. They do not. Transactions that fall outside e-invoicing remain reportable through e-reporting, the electronic transmission of transaction data and payment data to the tax authority. The official definition distinguishes two layers. Transaction e-reporting covers sales of goods and services to non-taxable persons such as private individuals, and transactions with operators established abroad, for example exports, purchases and intra-Community supplies. Payment e-reporting then covers cash collection, but only for transactions where VAT becomes chargeable upon receipt of payment, typically services where the company has not opted to pay VAT on issue of the invoice and where no reverse charge applies, as in parts of the construction sector; the data transmitted is the amount collected, which determines the output VAT the company must declare. If your French company sells to French individuals, exports goods, or bills intra-Community supplies, those flows feed e-reporting even though no French e-invoice circulates.<\/p>\n The backbone of this second duty is article 290 of the French Tax Code, which states: “Les assujettis qui sont \u00e9tablis ou ont leur domicile ou leur r\u00e9sidence habituelle en France communiquent \u00e0 l’administration sous forme \u00e9lectronique, selon des normes de transmission d\u00e9finies par arr\u00eat\u00e9 du ministre charg\u00e9 du budget, les donn\u00e9es relatives aux op\u00e9rations suivantes lorsqu’elles ne sont pas exon\u00e9r\u00e9es en application des articles 261 \u00e0 261 E” (taxable persons established in France, or having their domicile or habitual residence there, transmit to the administration in electronic form, under transmission standards set by order of the budget minister, the data relating to the following operations where they are not exempt under articles 261 to 261 E). Read the full provision on L\u00e9gifrance, article 290 of the French Tax Code<\/a>. The article then lists, among others, supplies of goods whose place of taxation is in France when the customer is a taxable person not established in France, services supplied to customers outside France, and sales to non-taxable persons. In short, the French company reports outward, and the foreign operator reports what it sells into France.<\/p>\n Foreign companies without a French permanent establishment (\u00e9tablissement stable, a fixed place of business that creates a taxable presence) but registered for French VAT are directly concerned. The tax authority has published a dedicated English-language page for them with a precise implementation timeline: 1 September 2026 for large enterprises and intermediate-sized enterprises selling goods or services, 1 September 2027 for micro-enterprises, very small enterprises and SMEs selling goods or services, and 1 September 2027 for businesses acting as buyers or customers liable for VAT in reverse-charge transactions and intra-Community acquisitions, whatever their size. Smaller structures may comply early, from 1 September 2026. Two operational points follow. First, a foreign company without a French permanent establishment that falls under e-reporting must choose an authorised platform to forward its data to the tax authority, and it must make that choice before the September 2026 or September 2027 date that applies to it. A non-established company therefore needs a PDP well before its first reportable period, exactly like a French company. Second, the reverse charge mechanism (autoliquidation, where the customer rather than the supplier accounts for French VAT) reallocates the reporting: where the customer is registered for French VAT, the foreign supplier is not liable for French VAT and the buyer carries the e-reporting duty for the transaction. The legal root of this mechanism is article 283 of the French Tax Code: “lorsqu’une livraison de biens ou une prestation de services mentionn\u00e9e \u00e0 l’ article 259 A est effectu\u00e9e par un assujetti \u00e9tabli hors de France, la taxe est acquitt\u00e9e par l’acqu\u00e9reur, le destinataire ou le preneur qui agit en tant qu’assujetti et qui dispose d’un num\u00e9ro d’identification \u00e0 la taxe sur la valeur ajout\u00e9e en France” (where a supply of goods or services covered by article 259 A is made by a taxable person established outside France, the tax is paid by the purchaser, recipient or customer acting as a taxable person and holding a French VAT identification number). See L\u00e9gifrance, article 283 of the French Tax Code<\/a>. Note also that payment-data e-reporting does not apply where the supplier has opted to pay VAT on debits, nor to reverse-charge transactions declared by the customer, and that payment data is always reported by the party receiving the payment, namely the issuer of the invoice.<\/p>\n Why does this matter for VAT recovery? Because France applies strict time limits to deduct input VAT shown on invoices, and the Cour de cassation enforces them without mercy. In a judgment of 1 October 2025 (pourvoi no. J 24-14.456, arr\u00eat no. 495 F-D), the Commercial Chamber held: “le client d’un assujetti, lorsque cet assujetti a opt\u00e9 pour le paiement de la TVA d’apr\u00e8s les d\u00e9bits, doit d\u00e9clarer la TVA d\u00e9ductible figurant sur les factures dans le mois de leur r\u00e9ception et au plus tard le 31 d\u00e9cembre de la deuxi\u00e8me ann\u00e9e suivante” (the customer of a taxable person who has opted to pay VAT on the basis of debits must declare the deductible VAT shown on invoices within the month of their receipt and no later than 31 December of the second following year). It added the sanction: “A d\u00e9faut de d\u00e9claration dans ces d\u00e9lais, le cr\u00e9dit de TVA ne peut donner lieu ni \u00e0 imputation ni \u00e0 remboursement” (failing declaration within those time limits, the VAT credit can give rise to neither set-off nor refund). Read the decision on Cour de cassation, Commercial Chamber, 1 October 2025, pourvoi no. J 24-14.456<\/a>. The case concerned a liquidator who had paid old invoices in 2012 and claimed a VAT credit in 2016: the claim failed because the deduction had not been declared in time. For a foreign-run company, the lesson is operational: e-invoicing and e-reporting create a dated, structured trail of every invoice received, which helps your accountant declare deductible VAT on time, but they do not extend the statutory cut-off. Late bookkeeping from abroad remains fatal to VAT recovery, and the pre-filling of VAT returns announced as part of the reform will only help businesses whose transmitted data is complete and punctual.<\/p>\n Being technically able to send an electronic invoice is not enough. Each invoice must contain the mandatory details required by the Commercial Code, state payment terms that comply with French maximum periods, and trigger penalties automatically when the customer pays late. From abroad you cannot chase every debtor by telephone, so your paperwork must do the chasing for you. The two sub-sections below give you the checklist of compulsory mentions and the arithmetic of late payment, then show how courts treat caps, printed penalty clauses and late VAT claims.<\/p>\n French commercial law starts from a simple principle in article L. 441-9 of the Commercial Code (Code de commerce): “Tout achat de produits ou toute prestation de service pour une activit\u00e9 professionnelle fait l’objet d’une facturation” (every purchase of products or provision of services for a business activity must be invoiced). The same article adds: “Le vendeur est tenu de d\u00e9livrer la facture d\u00e8s la r\u00e9alisation de la livraison ou de la prestation de services au sens du 3 du I de l’article 289 du code g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des imp\u00f4ts” (the seller must deliver the invoice upon completion of the delivery or the provision of services within the meaning of paragraph 3 of section I of article 289 of the French Tax Code). The buyer must claim it, and both sides keep a copy. Consult L\u00e9gifrance, article L. 441-9 of the Commercial Code<\/a>. The compulsory content is detailed: names and addresses of the parties, billing address if different, date of the sale or service, quantity, precise description, unit price excluding VAT, any price reduction acquired at the date of the sale and directly linked to it, the date by which payment must be made, discount terms for early payment, the penalty rate chargeable from the day after the payment date shown on the invoice, the flat-rate compensation for recovery costs (indemnit\u00e9 forfaitaire pour frais de recouvrement, a fixed sum of 40 euros added to penalties when a business invoice is paid late) due if payment arrives late, and the purchase order number where the buyer issued one. The statute phrases the payment section as follows: “Elle pr\u00e9cise les conditions d’escompte applicables en cas de paiement \u00e0 une date ant\u00e9rieure \u00e0 celle r\u00e9sultant de l’application des conditions g\u00e9n\u00e9rales de vente, le taux des p\u00e9nalit\u00e9s exigibles le jour suivant la date de r\u00e8glement inscrite sur la facture ainsi que le montant de l’indemnit\u00e9 forfaitaire pour frais de recouvrement due au cr\u00e9ancier en cas de retard de paiement” (it states the discount terms applicable in case of payment before the date resulting from the general terms of sale, the rate of penalties chargeable from the day after the payment date shown on the invoice, and the amount of the flat-rate compensation for recovery costs due to the creditor in case of late payment). Omitting these lines is expensive: “Tout manquement au I est passible d’une amende administrative dont le montant ne peut exc\u00e9der 75 000 \u20ac pour une personne physique et 375 000 \u20ac pour une personne morale” (any breach of section I is punishable by an administrative fine of up to 75,000 euros for an individual and 375,000 euros for a legal entity), with the maximum doubled for repeat violations. Structured e-invoices help here, because the format forces supplier and customer SIREN numbers, dates and addresses into dedicated fields, but the content responsibility stays with you: a beautifully transmitted invoice that lacks the penalty rate or the order number remains an offence.<\/p>\n Payment deadlines themselves are capped by article L. 441-10 of the Commercial Code, and these caps apply whether the customer is French or foreign. The default rule is: “le d\u00e9lai de r\u00e8glement des sommes dues ne peut d\u00e9passer trente jours apr\u00e8s la date de r\u00e9ception des marchandises ou d’ex\u00e9cution de la prestation demand\u00e9e” (unless otherwise provided, the payment period for sums due may not exceed thirty days after receipt of the goods or performance of the requested service). Parties may agree on a longer period, but “Le d\u00e9lai convenu entre les parties pour r\u00e9gler les sommes dues ne peut d\u00e9passer soixante jours apr\u00e8s la date d’\u00e9mission de la facture” (the period agreed between the parties to pay sums due may not exceed sixty days after the invoice issue date), with a single authorised variant: a maximum of forty-five days end of month (fin de mois, payment at the end of the calendar month plus forty-five days) if expressly stipulated and not manifestly abusive to the creditor. For periodic invoices within the meaning of article 289 of the Tax Code, the agreed period may not exceed forty-five days after issue. See L\u00e9gifrance, article L. 441-10 of the Commercial Code<\/a>. Any clause that exceeds these ceilings is unenforceable, and DGCCRF inspectors (agents of the DGCCRF, direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la r\u00e9pression des fraudes, the French competition and consumer enforcement authority) fine companies that impose longer terms on suppliers. A foreign shareholder who copies the 90-day terms of its home country into French contracts therefore rewrites its general terms before the first French invoice goes out.<\/p>\n When the customer misses the date shown on the invoice, penalties run automatically, without any reminder letter. The statute requires payment terms to state how late-payment penalties apply, the penalty interest rate running from the day after the payment date shown on the invoice, and the flat-rate recovery compensation due to the creditor where sums arrive after that date. The default rate is protective: it equals the European Central Bank rate for its most recent refinancing operation plus ten percentage points, and parties may agree a different rate only if it is not lower than three times the French legal interest rate (taux d’int\u00e9r\u00eat l\u00e9gal, the statutory rate fixed by order twice a year). In practice, with an ECB refinancing rate around 2 per cent, the statutory penalty rate exceeds 12 per cent per year, running day by day from the day after the due date, plus the 40-euro flat fee per invoice paid late, plus any documented additional recovery costs above that sum. From abroad, this automatic mechanism is your best debt-collection employee: a compliant invoice states the rate and the flat fee, your software computes the total when the payment arrives late, and your first reminder letter simply applies the contract instead of begging for payment.<\/p>\n Two judgments show how courts handle these clauses, and both reward businesses that put things in writing. In a decision of 15 September 2015 (pourvoi no. 14-17.116), the Commercial Chamber of the Cour de cassation dealt with a buyer that had invoiced its supplier 66,123.93 euros in late-delivery penalties and then relied on an email capping them. The Court upheld the appeal judges who had found “que la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Reder s’\u00e9tait engag\u00e9e \u00e0 limiter \u00e0 la somme de 8 000 euros le montant des p\u00e9nalit\u00e9s de retard” (that the company Reder had undertaken to limit the amount of late penalties to the sum of 8,000 euros), adding that the disputed invoice covered orders from a period for which the cap had been granted, so the buyer had to return the whole sum unduly withheld. Read the ruling on Cour de cassation, Commercial Chamber, 15 September 2015, pourvoi no. 14-17.116<\/a>. The message for a foreign founder is symmetrical: negotiate caps expressly and keep the email, because a cap given in writing binds you, and a cap obtained in writing protects you. In the same ruling the Court approved a secondPP practical point: the supplier had printed a 9 per cent penalty rate on the back of its invoices, the buyer had never disputed that mention, and the Court held that “la cour d’appel a pu retenir que ces conditions de paiement \u00e9taient entr\u00e9es dans le champ contractuel” (the court of appeal was entitled to hold that those payment terms had entered the contractual field). A penalty clause printed on your invoices and never rejected by the customer therefore becomes part of the contract. For a company managed from abroad, the discipline is simple: identical written general terms, identical penalty paragraph on every invoice, no oral side deals, and every concession by email with a clear period and a clear amount.<\/p>\n The second cash risk is quieter than unpaid invoices but just as real: VAT that you could have recovered but lose because the deduction was declared late or the invoice was defective. The 1 October 2025 ruling quoted above sets the framework for companies whose supplier pays VAT on debits (paiement d’apr\u00e8s les d\u00e9bits, an option under which VAT becomes chargeable when the invoice is issued rather than when it is paid): the customer must declare deductible VAT within the month of receipt of each invoice and no later than 31 December of the second following year, failing which the VAT credit can be neither set off nor refunded. The Court quashed the Paris appeal judgment that had allowed a late claim, holding that the lower court had violated the cited provisions, namely article 271 of the Tax Code and articles 208 and 242-0 A to 242-0 G of its annex II. The underlying story should alarm any distant manager: port-occupation invoices received between 2000 and 2003, paid by the judicial liquidator in 2012, with a refund claim filed in January 2016 and rejected as time-barred, followed by an unsuccessful damages action against the liquidator. Distance and delay compounded each other until the VAT credit died. Under e-invoicing, the receipt date of each invoice is timestamped in a structured flow, which makes the one-month starting point provable in both directions: the administration can see when you received the invoice, and you can prove when you received it. Organise your process so that every invoice received through your PDP reaches your French accountant within days, not quarters, and calendar the 31 December of the second year as an absolute backstop for any deduction that is still unclaimed.<\/p>\n Defective invoices aggravate the same risk. A customer can only deduct VAT shown on a valid invoice that matches a genuine supply, and the tax authority routinely rejects deductions backed by invoices missing the supplier’s identification, the VAT number, the taxable base per rate, or the VAT amount. The e-invoicing format reduces these errors by validating structured fields before routing, including the SIREN numbers of both sides and the delivery address where it differs from the billing address. But validation is formal, not substantive: the platform checks that a SIREN has nine digits, not that the supply described actually occurred at the price stated. Keep the underlying proof for every material invoice, especially in intra-group settings where a foreign parent bills its French subsidiary for management fees, royalties or recharged costs: signed contract, time sheets or delivery slips, proof of payment, and, for services, evidence of actual performance. If the administration challenges the substance during a tax audit (v\u00e9rification de comptabilit\u00e9, the on-site audit of business accounts, or contr\u00f4le sur pi\u00e8ces, the desk review), the invoice alone will not save the deduction.<\/p>\n Finally, treat sanctions as a budget line to avoid rather than a risk to accept. Missing compulsory mentions expose the company to the administrative fines of article L. 441-9 recalled above, while issuing a paper invoice where an electronic one is required, or failing to transmit e-reporting data, exposes it to the specific fines attached to the reform, applied per invoice or per missing transmission once the obligation bites. The reform’s staged calendar is not a grace period for the unprepared: large companies must issue from 1 September 2026, smaller ones from 1 September 2027, but everyone must receive from 2026, and foreign companies without a permanent establishment face their own e-reporting dates of 2026 or 2027 depending on size and on whether they act as seller or as reverse-charge buyer. A foreign founder should therefore run a short compliance programme before the summer of 2026: confirm the size category of the French company, mandate a PDP and test reception and issuance with two or three real customers and suppliers, align general terms with the sixty-day and forty-five-day ceilings, print the ECB-plus-ten penalty rate and the recovery flat fee on every invoice template, connect the PDP feed to the accountant’s software so that deductible VAT is declared within the month of receipt, and diary the 31 December second-year cut-off for any residual claim. Companies that complete this programme will find that the reform pays for itself: faster invoice delivery, fewer disputes about receipt dates, automatic penalties that shorten payment delays, and VAT returns increasingly pre-filled from reliable data. Companies that drift past 1 September 2026 with a simple PDF workflow will discover the opposite: customers who cannot legally accept their invoices, deductions declared on defective documents, and penalties that no reminder letter can cure.<\/p>\n France’s electronic invoicing reform rewards foreign founders who prepare early and punishes those who improvise. Every French company, whatever its size, must be able to receive structured e-invoices by 1 September 2026; large and intermediate-sized enterprises must issue them from that date, and smaller businesses from 1 September 2027, with identical deadlines for e-reporting. Foreign companies without a French permanent establishment report their French sales through an authorised platform on the same timetable, while reverse-charge purchases shift the reporting to the French-registered buyer under article 283 of the Tax Code. Beyond the channel, French substance rules are unchanged and strictly enforced: article 289 requires an invoice for every B2B supply, article L. 441-9 lists the compulsory mentions under fines of up to 375,000 euros, article L. 441-10 caps payment at thirty days by default and sixty days by agreement with penalties at the ECB rate plus ten points running automatically from the day after the due date, and the Cour de cassation cancels VAT credits declared after the month of receipt and the 31 December of the second following year. Put a registered platform in place, write compliant payment terms once, and push every invoice to your accountant within days: managed from abroad with this discipline, a French company bills faster, deducts safely and gets paid on time.<\/p>\n Our firm advises foreign founders and companies doing business in France, entirely in English and remotely, with a reply within 48 hours and a practical action plan for your French company. Phone consultation: 80 EUR TTC. Call +33 6 46 60 58 22<\/a> (Ma\u00eetre Reda Kohen) or write via our contact page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foreign founder? Your French company must receive e-invoices by 1 September 2026, issue via an approved platform, report foreign sales, and enforce compliant payment terms. 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II. Make Every Invoice Legally Bulletproof and Get Paid on Time While You Live Abroad<\/h2>\n
A. Which mandatory invoice details and payment terms protect your cash from abroad<\/h3>\n
B. How French VAT deduction deadlines and invoice errors cost you money if you file late from abroad<\/h3>\n
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