English-speaking accountant in Paris

No — we are a French chartered accounting firm registered with the Order of Chartered Accountants (OEC Paris–IDF) and the National Auditor body (CRCC). This is the European equivalent of a CPA practice and is the qualification recognised by the French tax authorities to sign your statutory accounts.

Yes. We produce a monthly bridge between French GAAP and your group reporting standard (IFRS, US GAAP or a custom group template). We talk directly with your group controller and deliver the pack inside Pennylane or as Excel exports.

Yes — every monthly close pack, board memo and reporting deliverable is drafted in English by default, with the French statutory version included. Your group controller, board and auditors consume them as-is, with no re-translation step.

Yes. We speak directly in English with your US tax preparer, UK auditor or group controller on treaty positions, foreign tax credits, intercompany eliminations and group audit requests. No intermediary, no game of telephone — which is what keeps cross-border closes on schedule.

We sign and file the statutory accounts in French (legal requirement at the Tribunal de Commerce) and provide the English version of every deliverable for internal use, board approval and parent reporting.

Five working days for a clean set-up: 10-Minute Diagnostic Flash, engagement letter, Pennylane and Dext configuration, banking integrations, payroll cut-over. If we recover historical accounts from another firm, count two to four weeks for the full migration.

Yes. A large share of our clients have no physical team in France — the entity is registered at our address or domiciled, and we run the full accounting, VAT and statutory cycle remotely via Pennylane, Dext and Slack / Teams. Your group still gets the same monthly English close pack and the same SLA.

Yes. We coordinate the SAS, SARL or branch creation with the Greffe, draft the bylaws in French (with English translation), file the immatriculation, set up the share-capital bank account and register the company for VAT and social contributions.

Yes. Impatriate executives can benefit from up to 50% income-tax exemption on their impatriation premium for eight years. We model the saving, run the dedicated payslips and produce the documentation required by the tax authorities.

Yes, and it is the partner himself. Samuel Hayot, the chartered accountant and statutory auditor who signs your accounts, owns your file personally. You always reach the same person on Slack, Teams or email: no rotating call-centre, no junior handoffs, no escalation chain.

Our packages start at €390 per month for a new subsidiary and scale to €1,890+ per month for groups with parent-reporting and audit requirements. Pricing is fixed-fee, agreed upfront in writing, with no hourly surprises.

Yes. We are a Pennylane Premium partner and integrate Dext for receipt capture, Stripe / Mollie / Adyen for revenue, Qonto / Revolut / BNP for banking, and Spendesk / Pleo / Ramp for expense management.

Yes. We prepare the documentation requested by the French tax authorities, attend the meetings on your behalf, and negotiate the closing position. Two of our clients went through full corporate-tax audits in 2025 with €0 reassessment.

Our hub serves businesses with a French legal entity. For individual expat tax matters (US-France treaty, FBAR, FATCA, ITIN), we run a dedicated practice — see our Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Paris US-clients page.

Main office: 58 rue de Monceau, 75008 Paris (five minutes from Monceau and Courcelles métro). Second office: Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis, eastern Paris metro). Riviera office: Cannes — for clients in southern France. We welcome in-person meetings at any of the three and also work fully remotely across France, Europe and the US.

Four rates apply in mainland France: standard 20% (most goods and services), intermediate 10% (restaurants, transport, tourism), reduced 5.5% (books, food, energy), and super-reduced 2.1% (medicine, press). Intra-EU B2C sellers use the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) regime — single quarterly return for the whole EU. We handle TVA registration, monthly or quarterly returns and OSS / IOSS for foreign-group subsidiaries.

The fiche de paie is the statutory French payslip — every employee receives one each month. It must list gross salary, employee and employer social-security contributions, withholding income tax (prélèvement à la source), net taxable salary and net pay. We run monthly French payslips on Silae with highly-automated imports — variable elements, expense claims and HR feeds flow in without manual re-keying — plus an optional English translation appendix for your foreign HR team.

Standard rate is 25% on all corporate profits since 2022 (one of the lowest in mainland Europe). Reduced rate of 15% applies to the first €42,500 of profit for SMEs with revenue under €10M and at least 75% individually-held capital. Withholding-tax exemptions exist for dividends remitted under the EU Parent-Subsidiary Directive and most bilateral tax treaties.

The same as in Paris, at least with us: fees are driven by transaction volume, payroll headcount, VAT regime and the group-reporting standard, not by geography. Remote-first delivery means one fixed fee in every French department. Whatever firm you choose, insist on the written fixed-fee quote in the engagement letter before committing.

Yes. We advise pre-incorporation on the structure (subsidiary versus branch), register foreign companies for French VAT without an establishment where the activity requires it (EU companies directly, non-EU companies through a fiscal representative), and set up payroll for a French-based employee without an establishment through the dedicated URSSAF scheme for foreign firms.

No law forces a company to appoint one. The legal obligations are to keep compliant books, file the annual accounts and tax returns in French, and appoint a statutory auditor above certain thresholds. Foreign groups appoint a chartered accountant anyway because the expert-comptable is the only profession legally allowed to keep books for third parties, and because getting French filings wrong is expensive.

Yes, at any point in the fiscal year. Notice is contractual (typically three months in the engagement letter; there is no statutory notice), and the handover runs accountant-to-accountant under French professional rules: we send the confraternal takeover letter, recover the ledgers (FEC file), balances and permanent file, and reconcile before the next close. The smoothest switch follows an annual return, but mid-year transfers are routine.

Four things. E-invoicing: from 1 September 2026 every French-established company must be able to receive electronic invoices through an accredited platform (PDP). The flat tax on dividends paid to individuals rises to 31.4%. The VAT franchise thresholds are confirmed at €37,500 (services) and €85,000 (goods). And the minimum wage (SMIC) is €12.31 gross per hour since 1 June 2026.

Check the public directory of the Ordre des experts-comptables (annuaire.experts-comptables.org): every legitimate firm and partner is listed with its registration. For statutory audit work, check the CNCC directory as well. Then test the English-speaking claim itself: ask for a sample monthly close pack in English. Many accountants in France speak English on calls but still deliver everything in French.