How much social charges will you pay
I've come across this useful online tool enabling would be entrepreneurs to calculate how much social charges they'll pay, according to their business type. Your social charges vary according to your business structure ...
Cheap insurance for auto-entrepreneurs
When setting up your business in France, it is crucial to cover yourself for damages you might cause or suffer from. Here are a few offers designed specifically for auto-entrepreneurs, starting from 15 euros per month ...
Auto-entrepreneurs: When to make your first turnover declaration
All auto-entrepreneurs have a minimum delay of 90 days before having to make their first turnover declaration. If you have decided to make your declaration by post, just wait for the Declaration de chiffre d’affaires for ...
EIRL to be launched 01/01/2011: Entreprise individuelle with limited liability
Entreprise individuelle is one of the easiest business structure to start in France. But its huge downside is that the entrepreneur is liable on his-her personal asset for all debts generated by the business. Indeed ...
Deadline: Profession liberale switching to the regime micro social: 28/02/10
Existing businesses registered as professions liberales can switch to the regime micro social and therefore pay their social charges as per the auto entrepreneur system. The switch will enable you to pay your social ...
Start Business in France is now on Facebook: Become a fan
I have been using Twitter for over a year now - Valerie_50 - and thoroughly enjoy it. It is a great way to find and share useful resources. So I guess there was only one step more to move onto Facebook with a fan page. ...
How to finance your business in France
Many English speaking entrepreneurs starting a business in France think that self financing their project is the only way to get the business of the ground. It may be true if your grasp of the French language is limited ...
Minimum wage in France - SMIC
The minimum wage in France is called salaire minimum de croissance (SMIC), which stands for Salaire MInimum de Croissance. Since 1 January 2010 the SMIC is worth 8.86 euros per hour. This comes to a monthly gross salary ...
Has your monthly on-line turnover declaration changed to quarterly?
Has your monthly on-line turnover declaration somehow mysteriously switched to quarterly declaration? Well I spoke to URSSAF about this and they confirmed that there is a bug in their online system. They suggest you ...
Changes planned to the auto-entrepreneur regime in 2010
The auto-entrepreneur regime is celebrating its first birthday and a few modifications are planned for 2010. No ground breaking changes, here is a summary: Turnover thresholds have been slightly increased to ...
Who uses Start Business in France?
24,383 visits came from 128 countries/territories. 18,738 from France, 1917 from the UK, 1189 from the USA and 4456 visits from other countries. 48% of all visit were via search engines, 25% from referring sites and 27% ...
Warning: The official auto entrepreneur website is off line
The offifial website http://www.lautoentrepreneur.fr has been redirected to URSSAF’s website. I have no idea whether they are experiencing some technical problems, but I will chase them tomorrow. ...
Up-date on Guichet Unique, the one stop shop to declare any business in France
Ten days ago, I talked to you about the Guichet Unique, a one stop shop to declare any type of business in France. This new online tool was supposed to be launched on 1st January. Well, surprise, surprise, the Guichet ...
Bonne Année 2010
Bonne année à tous les lecteurs de Start Business in France. Some of you might have already taken a new year’s resolution to move to France, others are working on making their move to France a success. Not an easy task ...
Guichet Unique: One-stop shop for business creation opens on 1st January 2010
The inauguration of a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs is planned for 1st January 2010. The Guichet Unique will centralise all the paperwork required to start any type of business: commerçants, artisans, professions ...