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I had been vaguely aware that I was paying social charges for “formation” for a number of years and somebody had mentioned that you had a right to a certain amount of training each year, but I never really thought much about it.  Then one day a marketing email from a random training company caused…

Although no longer an autoentrepreneur, I still do the quarterly returns for my other half who hates paperwork, and I thought it might be useful to do a quick run through of the process, so here it is.

I have spent years grappling with the finer details of French business administration and the intricacies of French bureaucracy in everyday life.  I have also filled in forms, made phone calls and accompanied lingustically challenged friends to meetings for all sorts of different reasons from doctors’ appointments to carte de séjour applications and have accumulated…

Here’s an explaination of what you need to do as a Profession Libérale to complete all of the required paperwork, updated for 2021 as they changed the system slightly.

Or Why I am ruing the day I started this So, following my claim for the VAT that I had spent in the UK while on business, I got an email from HMRC with various questions as to what I was doing in the UK and whether the clients I have were VAT-registered.  I was…

I finally got my refund But had to jump through several more hoops before they gave it to me.

There are two parts to invoicing foreign clients.  The first is the invoice itself.  The second, if you are VAT registered is the treatment of VAT on the invoice. 

And why I wish I hadn’t bothered As I said in my previous post, one of the main reasons that I bothered to register for TVA in France is to be able to claim back the VAT that I pay in the UK when over there on business trips.  I’ve just completed the form to…

We all end up with piles of paperwork but do you know when you can legally get rid of it, and whether it is wise to hold on to it for longer?  The timeframes below are the minimum given legal requirements and considerations, but you may want to keep it longer, or digitise it and…

I’ve seen quite a lot of people running micro-entreprises asking in various chat rooms where they can find the Attestation Fiscale that gives them the figure for their tax return, so I’ve put together a step by step guide.