Starting a business in France

Helping you to use your resources
 

Many combine a definitive move to France with establishing a business enterprise. This business may be centred around and involve their property for example a rural tourism venture of the likes of a gîte or chambre d'hôte activities. Others see an opportunity from a specific demand within the respective Anglophile, German, Dutch and Scandinavian communities, and wish to capitalise on acquired skills and previous experience. These activities might range from opening a shop specifically catering for the demands of the non-French customer to any kind of building (builder, electrician, plumber, interior designer) or maintenance type of enterprise (gardener, tree surgeon).

However, establishing a business in France is not easy, it is a precarious operation, littered with potential pitfalls that can prove costly. Any new venture requires an in-depth business plan and full consideration of every eventuality. In liaison with French accountants and tax advisers, or lawyers, we can advise business creators as to how best to go about starting up :

♦ The type of company to establish ♦ Project financing ♦ Budget and cash-flow forecasts ♦ Employment regulations ♦ TVA (VAT) registration ♦ Optimising tax relief ♦ Preparation of year-end results, balance sheets and partners’ individual tax declarations ♦ continued further advice as necessary

Accountants can, similar to notaires and solicitors, prepare company statutes and accomplish the full gamut of business registration formalities.

Past experience has enabled us to establish contacts with a number of competent and diligent accountants local to the proposed business venture, as such we can put entrepreneurs in touch with such a professional. We, at Baguette, can assist as much as you need, for example anything from the translation or the accomplishment of basic business registration formalities to presenting a business plan to, and negotiating short or long-term financing with, a bank.