Process to become Self Employed in France
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Re: Process to become Self Employed in France
Do you have any good links to articles which explain this, or a go-to website for people setting up or working as micro-entrepreneur? My quick google search for "whats-new in 2018" brings up mainly the increase in allowable income and TVA issues, but only a side mention of exoneration of social charges this year.
2019 : année blanche de cotisations sociales pour les créateurs d'entreprise
seems a bit daft, it will encourage start ups in 2019 but I would have thought it would severely discourage them in 2018
Unless I'm missing something, the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that for a consultant with a relatively high turnover and high expenses, portage salarial would be the most appropriate solution.
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Re: Process to become Self Employed in France
Do you have any good links to articles which explain this, or a go-to website for people setting up or working as micro-entrepreneur? My quick google search for "whats-new in 2018" brings up mainly the increase in allowable income and TVA issues, but only a side mention of exoneration of social charges this year.
https://les-aides.fr/focus/bZVl/les-...ntreprise.html
which goes back to February 2017, but only concerns the first year's exoneration of social charges for newly created "entreprises". As ET says, this is a real incentive, as social charges are more crippling than taxes.
Another result:
https://www.service-public.fr/profes...sdroits/F31048
shows that, if you set up your business in a ZRR, your employer's contributions are exonerated, i.e. you, as employer/employee, would still have to pay the employee's contributions.
Your regional CCI can give up-to-date info if more recent links on micro-entreprises can't be found.
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Re: Process to become Self Employed in France
Auto Entrepreneur et Micro Entrepreneur - Logiciel GRATUIT de facturation
and
https://www.federation-auto-entrepreneur.fr/
I've signed up for regular email updates from both of them. I think if you have a micro entreprise you really do need a reliable system to make sure you stay up to speed with new obligations and changes to the scheme, otherwise you're liable to miss things. In fact I use the invoicing tool on the myae site so I visit it several times a week in any case, but I still find the email updates useful.
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Re: Process to become Self Employed in France
Thanks both, we'll spend some time going through these as my wife is starting up her micro entreprise shortly and will need to keep on top of the various rules and regulations. In general it would seem that things are going in the right direction to encourage small businesses by reducing the complexity and costs of doing this - would you agree, or will the reality be very different?
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Re: Process to become Self Employed in France
Thanks both, we'll spend some time going through these as my wife is starting up her micro entreprise shortly and will need to keep on top of the various rules and regulations. In general it would seem that things are going in the right direction to encourage small businesses by reducing the complexity and costs of doing this - would you agree, or will the reality be very different?
Incidentally I recommend your wife considers myae as an option for her account keeping if she hasn't decided what software to use, it's specially designed for micros so you know your invoices and record keeping is compliant, and I find it a great timesaver.