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First foreign sale: choose a test market, set an export price, pick FCA or DAP, secure French VAT (VIES check, proof of exit), EORI and payment. A five-step method for very small businesses in France.
Plain resignation, career-change resignation, negotiated termination or business-creation leave: conditions, timelines and unemployment benefit (ARE) compared, including the 15-month cap on negotiated terminations since 1 September 2026.
SAS chairman, majority manager or self-employed: what actually protects you if you lose your business in France in 2026. The ATI (€600 to €800 a month for 182 days), a dual employment contract, GSC insurance and premium deductibility.
Setting up a second company in France when you already run one: subsidiary, sister company or top holding. Tax consolidation at 95%, parent-subsidiary regime, group-level reduced corporate tax test, flows and pay.
Keeping a French micro-business while running an SARL or SAS is legal. Contributions in each scheme, the flat-rate tax option, thresholds, VAT and the risks when the micro-business invoices its owner's company.
Garantie Égalité Femmes (80%, €50,000 guaranteed), Wom'Energy, dedicated networks, the 2026-2028 framework agreement and self-employed maternity benefits: verified support for women founders in France in 2026.
Career change into entrepreneurship in France: capped CPF funding since February 2026, professional transition project, testing in an incubator or through wage portage, and a transition budget. The sequence to change occupation without draining your reserves.
3- or 10-minute pitch, key slides, the figures funders will check and the trick questions: how to present your project to a banker or an investor in France, who do not expect the same thing.
Business owner burnout in France: warning signs, admin workload, cash and isolation, practical levers, sickness benefits by status, income-protection insurance and support services to last the distance.
Company name, trade name, trademark: only a trademark filing with the INPI protects a name across the whole territory. Real cost, duration, prior-rights search, Nice classes and trade-offs to settle at launch.
The self-employed owner has weaker social protection than an employee: retirement, daily allowances, disability, death. How to fill each gap with a retirement plan, contingency cover and health cover, in which order, and within which deduction limits (Tax Code art. 154 bis).
Launching an activity alongside your job in 2026: micro to test with no cost, company to protect and deduct. Thresholds, contributions, combining with employment and a worked example.
Permanent establishment, reduced dividend rates, foreign tax credit: how the France-US tax treaty of 31 August 1994 prevents double taxation, for both company directors and individuals.
Micro, EURL or SASU for a French freelancer selling abroad? A 2026 tax, social and VAT comparison: B2B intra-EU reverse charge, DES from the first euro, UK and US clients.
How a company can use the inpatriate regime (article 155 B of the French Tax Code) as an HR lever to hire an executive from abroad: tax-free premium, non-residence condition, duration up to 8 years and 2026 employer watchpoints.
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