Every month, Valerie Aston a French business advisor and founder of Start Business In France answer your questions.
You want to move to France and start freelance. You are in France and about to register. Or you have a French business and have questions about running it or developing it.
Today we talked about
✅French Business 101 Webinar on 20th + 25th March
✅ Moving to France Webinar on 4th April.
✅ Renting your home on Airbnb
✅ Setting up a PO box while on the move
✅ Can I set up a business with an employee visa
✅ Minimum income to renew a visa
✅ Where to register when growing plants.
✅ No news from CPAM after 4 months
✅ Unexpected CFE bill
✅ French income tax season coming in May.
Register for the live events I mentioned:
🙋🏻♀️ French Business 101 Webinar 20/03 + 25/03
https://startbusinessinfrance.easywebinar.live/event-registration-15
🇫🇷 Move to France Webinar 4/04 with Ibanista and Immigration lawyer
https://app.getcontrast.io/register/ibanista-moving-to-france-boost-your-visa-approval-odds-and-income-prospects?utm_source=referrals&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=webinar-valerie-aston
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I’m Valerie Aston, a business advisor to expats freelancing in France since 2009.
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For [Laughter] Sal so I can see I can see some music on my computer let me have a quick look to make sure I don’t have the music there so thank you for joining me for the monthly live so we are let me just turn off the
YouTube there we go we should be there so we should be live on um Instagram and on YouTube hopefully on Facebook as well so in this uh half an hour to 45 minutes we’re gonna talk about moving to France in six to 18 months Sal let me know if
You can hear me uh we’re going to talk about living in France and creating a business freelancing and if you have a business we’re also going to be talking about maybe developing this business of questions that you have on your business hi Kenny Robertson nice to see you here
So before I start taking your questions you can start typing them away and I will have a look at them in a moment I just wanted to remind hi Jillian nice to see that you’re making it on you on YouTube well Jillian and hi Bernie so a
Few events I wanted to share with you for Mar started doing more own lives and some events so a few things I wanted to mention first of all for those who don’t know me obviously I’m bar ason I’m the founder of St business in France and I help expatriates prepare create and
Manage their freelancing in France hi Tamara nice to see you so again today you’re gonna see me looking forward for YouTube and sideways to Instagram so sorry for people on Instagram I’m looking at sideways I’m still not managing to integrate Instagram to we stream so we’re going to do a bit of
Both so a few events that I wanted to share with you the first one uh in March I’m going to hold two free webinars on the uh 20 20th and 25th of March at 7 p.m French time uh 1 p.m New York 10: a.m. La 6: p.m UK so I’m GNA have an
Hour webinar where I’m going to be talking about U the different business structures in France so that’s the business structures for beginners if you think about creating your business not quite sure which one to go for I’m going to talk about micro entrepreneur Soul Trader soul SAS and so on and also going
To be talking about taxes so um if you want to know a bit more before you make your choice that’s want to come to I will add uh I will add the link for now I just mentioned the date on the um on the screen so 20th of March 25th of mar
At 7M and once we finish the event I will add the links on the YouTube commands uh and we’ll also add some post on on LinkedIn later on so Anda she can hear me thank you and she speaking English well very good it’s my daughter as my technician support so
The second event I wanted to share with you so that’s the first one I think that’d be good because I’m going into more details and I know that some of you already have a micro entrepreneur they’re developing their business they want to go into something bigger people like programmers consultant or some
People for whom the activities has a lot of cost uh wedding planners event organizers Retreats so that’s when it gets interesting to talk about taxes the second event I wanted to talk to you about um let me change the screen so this one is moving to France webinar so
This one I’m going be invited by Ben Jamin SM from ebanista uh for Bank transfers and he’s vinting me and Daniel tostado who’s a French immigration lawyer so that’s a great thing to have him with us uh and we’re gonna be talking about moving to France boost your Visa approval ads and
Income prospects so we’re going to talk everything about how to prepare your best visa application and you in luck to have someone like Danielle tostado who’s an immigration lawyer we’re going to talk about your different sources of income that you can have what you need
To put in your business plan to make it look better uh and have more chances of success so that should be really good so it’s on the fourth of April at 7 pm and this a one of uh events organized by iist so I’m looking forward to this and
The last event I wanted to share with you uh this one is the first live interviews that will be doing on YouTube so it’s the 28th of March at 6 pm and I will be inviting uh Patricia Brooks from the Carefree expert and Patricia is a coach is helping um women
To move abroad and make it a success uh and she’s also an author she’s written a couple of books she’s working on a second book so I’m going to be interviewing Patricia on several things first of all I want to have her tips like the best tip that she will have to
Help make your move abroad the success because she’s got great experience and she she’s working with many women on this topic coaching them and also I want to have for this series of interviews I’m interviewing people for the expertise but also for the experience of living in France having a French
Business so Patricia has registered as a coach in France she’s doing online courses and so on I think for two years already so I also want to have the Integrity about what was it like for her which kind of business did she go for what did she find interesting hard to
Cope with so I want to have a feedback on this and that’s the idea about this new live interviews once a month I will be um inviting someone to share their expertise and in April I will be inviting someone who’s working for as an estate agent so that’d be great both for
Looking for a house knowing about the market trends and his experience as a AJ OB so that’s going to be really cool U every month I’ll add one new new event uh so says will you please post the date just said in March 20th and 25th yeah so
I’ll I’ll send you a link I’ll send you a DM after um after the live so you have the link uh so that’s again it’s like a two Live Events then I’ll just take it away uh so that’s the three things I wanted to talk to you about so you can
See many events are coming up so as I’ve mentioned this I’m going to start taking your questions so don’t hesitate to type them away and I’m going to just open my iPad because I’ve listed some questions that I we have received this week and basically for the lives now I’m going to
Do the live once a month so um you can attend anytime for the live I will add a new live event on YouTube so you get notified so you have to make sure you also um subscribe to my channel to be informed on YouTube and I’ll take the
Questions that I have received a couple of days before so some of the questions I have received uh over the last couple of days so the first one is from Cass so Cass was on YouTube and Cass says um so she’s watched my micro entrepreneur overview
Video on YouTube it’s a half an hour introduction to show what the what is the micro entrepreneur like how does it work and so on and her question is could you please clarify if it is the good option if I’m doing my blog in social media and have contracts for the ads in
My blog so yeah so basically for for Cass the micro entrepreneur would be a good feet because she has the blog she’s a bit of a community manager and she’s going to be paid via commissions or ads so in that case when she registers her mic business micro entrepreneur I think
There’s a section or subsections where he says blogger in French blogger blogger committee manager um it could also be like advertising if it’s just pure if you’re getting just pure advertising income in that case is seem more like an advertising agency adverts but what I did say to C also said well
Also check which kind of other services you would like to offer because for now you have this you have the advertising you have the blog but are you thinking about doing something else for instance if you’re thinking about doing um some online courses or giving some advice in
Different Services make sure you also add those before describe them further so we can see how we can include them to make sure that one the business is registered we’ve got everything because for me the worst that we can have quite often people in frush they’re late they
Want to they have that first customer they want to register quickly they register quickly and then we realize a little while afterwards that uh they they haven’t included everything they forgot some Services a month later they’ve got a request for something else and then when we want to add those uh
Then it’s very com very complex because NP first time around you’re okay but once you want to update something it’s a bit of an idea so always before you start registering your activity think about everything that you want to to include so that was for C let me see the
Question from uh tamaras so the event on the 4th of April I so yes uh I haven’t posted on Instagram I will post it tomorrow it’s on iban nist’s website U Instagram page but I will add one tomorrow as well on my Instagram page I haven’t been very
Active on Instagram it’s not very good so I will add the EV on moving to France the event organized by ebanista and their Instagram I think is I ebanista IBI and the end but but I will add it on mine as well tomorrow so you have the direct link to register let me
Just check if I have some questions hi graphic photography nice to see you if you have some question then please ask them along I think it’s okay for now on Insta I’m going to take a question I think had a question from um on YouTube I had a question from Bernie
Bernie R so Bernie came to the live last time uh and basically um he says Hey Valerie can you register Artis using the micro entrepreneur registration service I mentioned I wanted to sell ice cream from a bike uh before I’m blending ice cream with fruit that makes me an Artis
Right so basically last time we had a live Bernie came and he explained his project can’t remember whether is in this but basically he wants to sell ice cream on a bik he’s going to go around town and events and sell ice cream to people so you just wanted to sell more
As a delivery person but he’s what I did ask him is are are you reselling the ice cream or you making it and because he’s blending some ice cream with some food is’s actually making a pro a product so therefore we have to register Bernie
With shamb de so shamb is as soon as you start having some kind of manual Services you have to register with them so yes Bernie can register as um micro entrepreneur for the selling the ice cream and we’ll have to be creative about how we’re going to be describing it but something like
Fabric glass a but the thing I wanted to mention for Bernie is basically there’s a couple of thing that you also want to look into before you go ahead with the registration is first of all because you’re selling I’m going to hide this because take a lot of the screen because you are
Selling um you keep moving places you actually need to have an authorization from the mar you can’t just turn up somewhere in a public car park on the Main Street park your bike and sell ice cream it’s a bit like when you look at the van selling burgers and so on the
Food truck uh you need to have an authorization from the Mary in order to sell so what I would advise you to do for now is just go and see the mar where you think about going to sell the villages where you think about going with your bik and make sure they will
Give you an authorization in order to sell on public um V public on public space uh if they say no try different towns uh also ask for private locations forance private location could be um private events conferences or a car park where uh that belongs to for Supermarket
The car park belongs to the supermarket so that’s one thing to check and the second second thing that we would do basically with your activity would be uh to to uh let me written the word before to actually add in the description V ambulant so basically when
You move locations you have a van a food truck your services are in a van it could be a bey sh in a van it could be somebody selling on a b you see the the mar that’s what I mentioned before and need to request wrong girl good to see you if
You have some question don’t hesitate to walk away just type them away and I we take them so card Commerce ambul is basically when we do the registration we also mention that you are you don’t have a fix address to keep moving places and we ask for that count from the sh
Commerce and I remember what they is should for three to four years um so we ask for it and then you might have to finalize it with the sh Commerce later so normally you should have your picture on and sometime they ask for 10 to issue the card so that was for the
Question uh so that was the question from Bernie so I will take this away so let me see the questions that I have so don’t itate if you have anything about moving to France or creating a business just ask them away in the chat and I will take
Them uh so the next question I had was from uh abishek so abishek um wants to register an IT business as a freelancer in France and is currently on a passport Talent salar passport Sal so it’s like he’s an employee got the passport as an employee can I do
This so for for abish it’s a bit of a tricky one because basically the Visa salar allows you to work as an employee for a business so you’ve been given that passport that that that that visa to work for this business and normally doesn’t work for you can’t use it in
Order to freelance because that’s not what it was issued for nor you would need a visa talent for entrepreneur or for or something else so basically what abish needs to look into he needs to look into switching from his Visa talent salar to uh entrepreneur and but what he can do
Is basically normally he can do the switch either three months before the renewal date using the same platform they did before or two months before the renewal date with the prefecture of his local residency so what he needs to look into I would say the alternative which
Might be able to do I need to look a bit further into this is in the meantime because his his Visa allows him to work as an employee is to look into the umbrella company called Portage salarial Portage salarial umbrella company like jump or ABC Portage because basically
The the umbrella company like this is when you want to take a mission but you are not freelancing it’s status which is similar to emploees so that might work for abishek that would be an option in the meantime and I’m talking with some people from jump one of those platform
Later on this week so I will also be checking this so Tamara says um Can this list be listened to again later on or another day yeah it’s being recorded Tamara so the live on Insta will be added to the live section and then it will be on my YouTube
Channel uh so at stb France um on YouTube so YouTube and Instagram uh so that was a question for my and I got quite a few question I think because you’re getting closer to the summer many of you are starting to look into uh renting your properties and
I have a few questions on this so one of them was from from Sam so Sam says H we want to rent our Apartments residence principal which means it’s the main home the main flat in France on BNB when we go on vacation I find the process quite
Confusing can you please explain it and tell us what needs doing so um for some so for some some some situation is specific because basically he wants to rent his own home and it’s like a second resource of income so we’re looking at something called lmnp which is lure M no profession and
Basically whenever you want to rent your property there’s two things that you have to do you have to check with the m that you’re allowed to do so and especially for him because it’s his main flat main home and in some big towns there’s a pressure on finding rentals so
Some of the towns are putting restrictions so if you’re on Leon Bordeaux Le um basically if it’s your own home you can’t rent it for more than 120 days per year so that would work for some because he’s talking about renting his place when he’s on holidays but if it’s like
Your home no more than 120 days in um tough areas and also because it’s nonprofessional there’s also a maximum of bookings that you can take in terms of turnover as nonprofessional we’re looking at maximum 23,000 so basically for s yes he can but first of all check
With the Mary second of all he lives in a flat building blocks so often there’s a sandic so check with the sandic to make sure there’s no preventing you from doing this and finally once we done this we can register the LMP I had another question pretty much about the same
Topic but for this one it was someone who who isn’t living in France so for someone who doesn’t live in France and they want to um rent their property in that case is still L mnp non professional lure M non professional and it’s the same process you check with the
Mary uh that you can rent your property and it’s called declaration M tourist let me see if I down somewhere Happ so declar and once they say okay then we register the activity with IPI as nonprofessional if that’s your main activity and is different we do register it as a
Business Sal Julius I think it’s j let me see if I can see some questions here on Instagram I think I okay so far don’t hesitate if you have any questions about moving to France creating your business or um developing your business I will take them so let me
See let me see so I have a question here from on YouTube so from trending now Val I’m in France looking for permanent house can we start the me registration process with just the PO Box in place and will eventually get a permanent address Miranda who’s currently living
In Spain so Miranda it looks like you have done your research because yes that’s perfect and that’s why I would recommend to anyone who’s planning to move to France but they know that in the short term they might move that might have rented an Airbnb or a Jeet for a
Few months but they’re not sure they want to stay there the PO Box is the perfect options it’s called address the doic because basically it means that we’re going to be using this for the business registration so that’s what appears on all the legal papers for your
Business and in the back end the PO Box C knows where you live so you just need to update the PO Box Company whenever you’re moving and legally the PO Box Company just need once a year they need to inform the tax office as to where you
Actually live so the P box is good if you know you’re going to be moving forance Jen J no J is here but she didn’t go for p book she’s friend that she’s using but for someone who’s moving use this and also for instance for someone whose activity that don’t
Actually want to show their personal address for instance there might be um psychologist and so on and you want to keep your you don’t want people to turn up on your door or you want to keep your address private you would use a PO
Box address the doic I use I work with s doic they pretty good very fast and basically for Miranda you want to actually uh do the PO Box before you register the micro entrepreneur because when we get to the stage of registering a micro entrepreneur we need a copy of
That contract we need the serat number of the PO Box Company uh that we add and once the registration is handled the tax office will also ask for a copy of that contract so first step set up the P Works Second Step register your micro entrepreneur yes Jillian says oh you are
Going to do the PE box so Jillian says the no I will do the PO Box uh yes it can jilan because jilan um moved to last quarter 2023 um she is going through different places in France to see which area she likes best and therefore she might move and
Basically the P box works when you keep moving not in in the short term the address is set up at a FR address who give the authorization so we okay but for her it’s not always EAS if you have the P box the advantage of the PO Box
Company is that they will scan your mail and S to you so at least you always get a copy of what’s important you can sort it out and keep working remotely which sometime um is difficult yeah yeah yeah Julian says Jillian says she did it backwards because she registered the micro
Entrepreneur first so Jillian because it’s all set up now the PO Box is not so necessary because your friend anyway is helpful I’m collecting the ma but for somebody else um who is think about it PO Box first then micro entrepreneur so Bernie came back Bernie
Says uh super thanks to that choose the area where I will operate in my case stasbor or any area will do so how far you gonna go with your bike bnie so I don’t know is that is that private even to public I would say for
Me that looks like when I used to work with people who were selling on French markets like all the food truck works and so on um they would do their ideal week so they would say okay for instance I’m going to take my area live in a
Small village go leure and they’re going to say on Friday I’m in Leia on Monday I’m in brck on Tuesday I’m inan cherborg so they do their the week of the places they want to go and then they get in touch to just realize what they want to
Do in terms of work and then they get in touch with each town to allow them uh to to double check that they will they will give them or they will allow them to do so um but for you if you say stasbor is already quite a big town to go and cycle
Around so check with stasbor if they give you the go ahead then go ahead with registering the micro entrepreneur and it’s quite likely that they will say okay yes we seem okay with it but do come back to us once you have your business attestation they might say give
Us your your business attestation first we still want to double check because we don’t want to be told afterward it wasn’t good enough so to me always check first and at least it’s a way to introduce yourself to say I’m in the process of registering my business this
Is what I’m doing i’ be doing going on public site and private events I would like to come in your time um is it okay do I need to complete any kind of forms With You official request if they say no that’s fine come back once you’re done
And at least you’ve done that first uh presentation and you’ve double checked that everything is um is all on track for them so let me see the your questions that I received so just to say to jilan because we dropped emails before so Jillian registered her
Business in November 2023 as um as an English teacher with a specifity as a drama as a um as a drama coach as well in English uh but Jillian hasn’t received all the paperwork and basically today using for St students in Malia micro entrepreneur my course there’s a
Checklist which basically helps you to assess uh that you’ve received all the documents that you should at when your business is registered and with Jillian she sent me all the documents you received so far and basically I just went through to see what was missing the
Good news for Jillian is that we got most of them is just the half cover so far we haven’t heard from CPM and initially I was thinking okay January that’s not so far January February March but actually the registration was November so Jillian we’re going to call your yourself we’re gonna call yourself
Yes exactly because B I’ll call yourself basically to me it sounds like the transfer of your information from uraf to CPM for the health cover may not have worked so that’s the one to Chase and we need to speak to someone so that to
Force them to re um push a push a button to retransfer the information to CPM because CPM the health cover body can’t know about it unless yourself has sent the information to me the fact that so far we haven’t received anything sounds like uh they haven’t received info so chasing them will be
Good Bernie says there was going to use a PO Box as well uh that’s what I was talking about the area so yeah so PO Box uh in in stasbor perfect so look at s other places where you might find a PO Box is usually um the co-working spaces
Or P they often have some there so because if you’re on your bike you can at least go and check your mail or collect it which can be cheaper then have it scan and sent to you so any the other questions that received um I had a question on Instagram from fos
And fos says do you know what kind of business I need for a plant nursery in this can I have a micropreneur and unfortunately for FAS whenever you growing plants it’s seen as farming so you can’t do this as a micro entrepreneur so if you think of a plant
Nursery uh growing fruit and veg um growing Olive Tree having olives to make olive oil is SE that farming so unfortunately you can’t have this kind of activity as micro entrepreneurs because farming doesn’t come into that scheme so you need to register with shamb Agriculture and basically you can’t
Um you can’t have the type of business I’m talking about it be specific scheme for micro entrepreneurs and social charges are just completely different so the good news for you is as a start the social challes are much slower but the pensions just terrible like foras hi Martin Ked carpentry well
Nice to see you here because I’ve seen a few of your restoration project on Instagram they always look great so uh among the other questions let me have a look so I had a question from um so we talk about Artis I can see Martin so I’m going to take an Artis
Question I had a question on YouTube from Bernie and Bernie says um I’ve already taken um no sorry I’ve already taken Bernie I have a question from mountains that was on the start business in France forum and Mountain says what is the minimum income required for a micro entrepreneur
For a Visa renewal so mountains is lucky because mountains has um Visa Talon so it’s a threeyear renewal and the Ral datee is September 2026 and basically Mountain was slightly worried that uh there wasn’t enough income per month or per quarter um to renew the Visa and basically when you look at the
Visa renewal the prefecture is looking they want to see that you’re generating at least the equivalent of the minimum wage in France the smeek SM smic minimum wage smek and basically people don’t always talk about the same numbers because the SM is about 20,000 21,000 e gross meaning before employees social charges
Which means net after employee social charges is about 18,000 18,500 so as an entrepreneur that’s the number we looking at1 18,500 EUR per year that’s the income that you need to take out net of your business so be careful when not talking about turnover is we talking about the business income that you’re
Taking out of your business and basically for Mountain who is a micro entrepreneur providing Services what you need to do to know the gross amount you need to add 34% on top because that’s how the tax office calculated the your running expenses social chares plus 34% for somebody providing consultancy
Services as Professor liberal plus 50% if it’s someone providing manual services like an artisan or plus 71% if you’re buying to resell so roughly for mountains to be fine we’re looking about turnover around 25 to 30,000 euros per year and basically if she because she has a threeyear
Visa threee Vis it doesn’t matter if in the first year is slightly below it’s not like per month they just look at the total amount for the full year and then if this year you might be like 17 and next year you’re or you’re 15 next year
You’re 20 the year after you’re 25 in terms of income out of the business that’s fine because you show that you’ve increased your income and if you’re not there basically what you do you show your saving you show how much you’ve done you show that you have increased
And you show your savings to show that you can live still afford to live in France with your savings and you also write a nice letter to say why you have abund done as much as planned and the actions that you plan to take in order to increase your
Turnover uh jilan is asking whether she should um Chase yourself I’ll do that for you jilan I will call them tomorrow or Friday just sometime you can’t them you can’t get them straight away so I will try tomorrow and for to speak to them because it’s easier for me to say
What the issue is or um to know what to ask them for the only thing was to ask your friend if she had received anything else in the meantime so that was it for the income uh let me have a look I think we’ve almost gone through
Everything uh so just have two more questions if you have if you have some question don’t hesitate to ask them away so I will take them as well so I had a question from uh Emma um who has a question about filing taxes as a micro entrepreneur profession
Liberal she says I’ve been filing I’m a micro entrepreneur I’ve been filing my taxes on the URF website I filed quarterly my taxes declaration to uraf and I want to know if I’m supposed to be doing something else if I miss something at the end of the year so basically
Business taxes personal taxes business taxes that’s the tax you pay to yourself so depending on your business uh type you would do a monthly quot declaration or yearly declaration to yourself and you pay social charges the next one is a tiny tax called CF tax contribution
Entprise and this one you pay from your second year in business you pay it in December it could be anything between 200 and 400 euros that’s a tiny tax and the last one is your personal income tax as an entrepreneur you draw some income out of your business and as an
Individual therefore you need to declare it to the tax office called and in France basically we file once a year so we’re going to be filing soon in um May 2024 we’ll be fing or taxes for 2023 so basically anything we’ve earn in 1st of J to 31st of December 2023 we’re
Going to be declaring in our French income tax form ampo Sol Revenue in May and this could be a salary a pension entrepreneur income rental income and so on that’s why you be declaring so so far it looks like um Emma hasn’t missed anything she declaring the social
Charges if it was a first year in business the CF taxes may not be there first one could be in December 2024 and basically if she was in business in 2023 first personal income tax form will be filed in May 2024 so the the only thing to pay attention to here is for
Anyone who moved to France and created a business in 2023 quite often the tax office um it’s not that they don’t really know about you often they miss you they don’t miss you oh I miss you so much they just forget to send you the form so it’s up to you to
Make sure you go and get gather the form online because you have to do you have to file a paper declaration for your first ever declaration it has to be done on paper you can’t do it online so it’s paper and you have to fill in the forms
And return it to them now the good news is that most of the tax off places they take uh you can have a free appointment with them most of May to actually find those taxes so you bring everything and you ask for help and they help you to do
It and in my newsletter so um on start business in.com you have the newsletter I also always cover that topic and I’ll give you a link to the forms every so I’ll be doing that in May because they usually posted end of April I do an
Article with all the links to the form so you can download it and start preparing so she hasn’t missed anything yet so J says I haven’t got started yet really guess I’m okay with taxes so Jillian the one you want to focus on yes so you’ll have to find your
French income tax form 2023 but it will be covered in the course there’s a section on there I will update it with the new um forms and as part of a monthly Q&A when it’s tax tax season I’ll cover it in all live Q&A so you can
Help probably online um the only thing you need to do jilan is that your your auto entrepreneur that yourself the FR account you know need to go and create that one because normally if you don’t ear anything you declare at zero so you still have to find at zero it’s just in
The meantime some of the letters you sent me I couldn’t quite see on them the your social security number your temporary number you need a temporary number to create the account if you receive no temporary number you can create it but if you have received it
You need to go and um and you need to go and and and do that bit so so trending now says uh I just AR from Spain I never lived in France should I get a tax number or my tax number will be sorted once I open my micro entrepreneur business using the
Services so yeah don’t worry about it because basically the fact that we register micro entrepreneur kicks it everything in so basically you register your business it informs uh yourself uh you given your cat number your business ID number by in it informs yourself it informs the tax office so and then they
Will come back to you they will come back to you regarding your business but basically for your personal taxes uh you don’t need to rush to get a personal tax number you can do that later when you have time even some people they don’t get it they just wait
For their first declaration to to get it so no because basically until you create your business nobody knows about you the tax office won’t know what to do at least once you have the business because they can see you have a business you can say okay you want a tax number there you
Go you can have it so no rush you can focus on uh getting the business done first uh I think that was pretty much uh the questions that wanted to cover let me know uh let me know hi the lus mam if you have any questions don’t hesitate to
Ask me um just having a quick look to see if I missed any question oh my app is doing some strange strange um things I think that was about it um the only thing I wanted to say oh Let me refresh because it’s gone I can’t read it
Anymore I think the last question was from Maxim uh Maxim is super organized he’s created his business everything is ticking he’s double check everything he’s managed to renew his Visa with the prefecture it was super organized and strangely he suddenly received warning from the tax office with a 500 EUR Bill
And so he sent me a copy thinking what is this uh got no clue usually when he send a letter from the tax office they’re quite hard to read and basically it said a the recover a the rec and that’s basically when write to you to say we haven’t paid some
Taxes and it wasn’t Max Maxim thought because it’s super organized uh it’s basically because sometime when you create your micro entrepreneur business or any business the tax office should send you as the entrepreneur a CF init initial questionnaire called CF 1447 where you fill your details and
Sometime they just don’t send it to you so in Maxim’s case they never sent him the form so we didn’t complete the initial questionnaire and now basically what they said in the complex letter is say oh we’ve realized we’ made a mistake and by the way we’ve got three years to
Fix some mistakes and go back three years back whenever we’ve made a mi mistake to for taxes therefore now you was I don’t know whether it was one one or two years of CF tax please you just this letter tells you that you’re going to get that bill soon so it wasn’t Maxim
S but basically they realized they forgot this so now he has to wait for the bill to be sent to him and then he will pay it basically just know that when you create a business inance the CF tax is due for all small business owners from the second year in business and
When you create your business if you haven’t received that CFE 1447 form in the first six months then in that case it’s best to download it complete it and send it to the tax office via your business and account so for people in the manage your micro entrepreneur
Course in the course I show you how to create your business and Google account uh and also the CF form is also explain how to fill it in that CF initial questionnaire but it’s basically information about who you are where your business is and and what you use the
Premises for so you fill this in and then through the messery you send it to the tax office saying I haven’t received this form just wanted to make sure everything was on track please find my declaration so at least it’s not your for I would say if you created your
Business in 2023 and you can’t remember remember getting a CF form you would remember it because it just looks so it looks really scary in that case I would recommend you fit it in and then you send it to tax office via the um amp your business amp account and that’s the
Red one so I think I’ve taken most of the C questions for today thank you all for joining um so basically the live Q&A is once a month so I will soon add the date for I will soon add the date for April so
And if you if you go on YouTube you can be warned when it’s live if you subscribe to my channel and you say be informed it just tell you when we’re about to to be live and I will also add uh the links to the events di mentioned
The 101 French business webinar the move to France webinar with um Ian nista and the live interview with patri books so thank you all for joining hi JN Ando if you have a question just ask them quickly because I will be ending the live soon but anyway gracias thank you
Gracias thank you very mucha and I’ll see you all very soon I’ll see you at least in the live next month mer