Start Business in France
Expert help on registering, setting up and starting a business in France.

I’ve always wanted a mentor

"Valérie, I really appreciate this forum. Thank you so much for thinking of such a solution and giving your time. I’ve always wanted a mentor, never did I imagine I could have one via a forum."
-KeepEiM (12 Mar 2010)

Very useful information

"Thank you so much for all the very useful information. It is so good to know I have someone to ask."
-Stuart Luckley (8 Mar 2010)

Feel so much better about the whole thing

"I am so relieved and grateful to have found this website. I was directed to it by the AngloInfo website from their discussion forum. I have started with watching the videos on the AE online completion forms and feel so much better about the whole thing already. Thank you so much Valerie."
-Angela Millward (7 Mar 2010)

Remarkable information and assistance

"What an amazing service and such remarkable information and assistance! Paying 40 Euros to join the forum was nothing compared to what an accountant would have charged me to offer me similar advice - although I doubt if they would have been as thorough as Valerie. Thankyou x"
-Nicole Salamate (23 Feb 2010)

Thank you

"Each person I speak to seems to say something different. If only I knew about this website when I first started up!"
-Becky (18 Feb 2010)

Valerie made everything crystal clear

"Valerie is a saint .....from trying to understand the bureacracy and the misinformation amongst different government agencies re starting a business, Valerie made everything crystal clear for me and has made the whole process so much easier and in fact making me feel one step ahead...thank you so much."
-Grahame White (18 Feb 2010)

Delivered without fuss and with the right result

"If you want a way through the frustrating administrative minefield that is France, Valérie is THE person to help. I'm very fluent in French but there are times when you need the help of someone who understands the culture and workings of the system intimately. Everything that's ever been asked of her has been delivered without fuss and with the right result. Valérie is a truly outstanding professional and I wholeheartedly recommend her."
-Shaun Gisbourne (17 Feb 2010)

I now feel ready to get started

"I have just watched your video to help me with the form filling - brilliant. Thanks for your help."
-Sarah (14 Feb 2010)

Very informative

"Thank you for a very informative website. I found it by chance last weekend just as I was about to purchase an existing business and have already learnt such a lot."
-Graham (13 Feb 2010)

Invaluable help

"Just a very short note to say many thanks for all your invaluable help and advice not only when I was trying to set up my new venture but the continuing updates that feature on this most helpful of websites, and all for free too. The curry is pretty good too. Thank you once again."
-John parish (10 Feb 2010)

A HUGE thank you to Valerie

"I just want to say a very public thank you to Valerie, for this forum and for the help she has given me by email / phone. I was beginning to despair of finding someone who could help with my (admittedly not the usual) situation - I am running a business in France, but am also 8 and a half months pregnant. I’ve been trying to sort out various issues pertaining to this since August 2009, and have not had very much help either from people I have paid to help me, or the authorities whose job it is to sort these things out! Valerie has made the whole process make so much more sense, has handled phone calls and chased people for me, and finally we’re at a point where I can see the way forward and stop tearing my hair out. So thank you Valerie, for a great service and a fab forum - I’d happily recommend you to anyone looking to start a business in France!"
-Nikki Pilkington (7 Feb 2010)

Superb

"I spent weeks searching through hundreds of web pages then found everything plus more here in Start Business in France! Superb, Valerie!"
-Bob (7 Feb 2010)

Saved me a lot of time and money

"I can recommend the phone help service which saved me a lot of time and money. My partner has now received his SIRET number form the local impots office."
-Croissant (28 Jan 2010)

Invaluable Advice

"Really don't know what I would have done without you."
-Johny (28 Jan 2010)

Brilliant

"The forum is simply the best for us English speakers to get de facto answers and support to our auto-entrepreneur and other business related problems. Can't tell you how stressed I was before I found this place! Brilliant brilliant brilliant! Thank you Valerie!"
-Sarah Little (21 Jan 2010)

Well worth it!

"Thanks Valerie, and thanks for your time on the phone this evening - well worth it! You’re the most helpful person I’ve spoken to since starting this process in August 2009!"
-Nikki (19 Jan 2010)

Very sensible advice

"Valerie provides an excellent service and always responds very quickly with very sensible advice. Many, many thanks."
-Rusty Hanlon (18 Jan 2010)

This website was and still is invaluable

"I have just started a business in France and this website was and still is invaluable. Thank you so very much for your time and effort Valerie."
-Peter Whitehead (18 Jan 2010)

My first port of call

"Your my first port of call for any questions regarding the auto-entrepreneur scheme. Thanks for all your support and I really like the new newsletter. Well done Valerie."
-Sarah (18 Jan 2010)

I have found the forum invaluable

"I have been using this website for 6 months now, I have found the forum invaluable and Valerie has been so helpful with all my queries. With the first newsletter, it is getting better and better."
-Gerard Hassett (18 Jan 2010)

Very helpful

"This was just the right website at the right time. Very helpful for everyone trying to master the maze. Many, many thanks."
-Susan Pfeifer (18 Jan 2010)

Thanks for being there

"I must contact the friend who gave me your website details and thank them again! Thanks to Valérie and forum members for being there to answer questions."
-Steve (18 Jan 2010)

Ask any question

"I've never found a site before this one with such comprehensive business advice and to be able to ask any question and have it answered so quickly is a godsend. To know via the forum activity that we are not alone is inspiring. Many thanks Valerie for all your help to date."
-Kirsty Achterhuis (18 Jan 2010)

Reliable information

"Congratulations on provided a much needed source of reliable information."
-Christine Brooks (18 Jan 2010)

First class service

"Via the forums and personal advice all aspects of auto entrepreneur are covered. This has enabled me to relocate my business from the UK to France and pay less tax overall."
-Steve Nash (18 Jan 2010)

Invaluable

"Excellent, professional and invaluable."
-Francis (16 Jan 2010)

Almost payed the 23% instead of the 13%

"You have been a great help and I am so thankful I found your website and joined your forum. You have already saved me half of what I was going to pay as I did not realize the different rates and almost paid the 23% instead of the 13%."
-Joey (15 Jan 2010)

Invaluable advice

"Thanks Valérie, your advice is once again invaluable!"
-Jigster

Excellent information

"Many thanks for creating this forum. It’s full of excellent information."
-Frances

Much appreciated

"Firstly, well done superb website and much appreciated by many I am sure."
-Amber

Very informative

"Well done on your excellent website - very informative and easy to use."
-Hannah

Excellent forum

"Valerie, congratulations on an excellent forum. Thank you for your kind advice."
-Steve

Excellent advice

"Valerie, thank you for your excellent advice on getting started with the AE system."
-Ruby

Very informative reply

"Thank you so much for your very informative reply. This has helped a great deal - this website is brilliant!"
-Ada Chelle

Exactly the information I needed

"I got exactly the information I needed - many thanks."
-Paul

Most helpful site that I could have found

"This site has been the most helpful site that I could have found - fantastic!"
-Alison Laborderie

I would be lost without it

"Thanks so much for a fantastic forum, I would be lost without it….."
-Elaine

Comprehensive response

"Thanks for your quick and comprehensive response."
-Cameron

Fantastic Valerie!

"Thank you, I think your initiative is fantastic Valerie!"
-Jacqui Garcin

Fantastic website

"Fantastic website, it was passed on to me, now I will be passing it on to my friends."
-Eileen

Very much appreciated

"Thank you so much for your help Valerie, its very much appreciated and I have recommended this forum to all of my expat friends!"
-Gabrielle Clark

Thank you so much

"Congratulations, Valerie, on a fantastic site and thank you so much for providing this service."
-Cynthia Caughey

I can stop pulling my hair out now

"Many thanks for a fantastic website, perhaps I can stop pulling my hair out now…"
-Mazza

Something new each day

"I have been following the forum with great interest. Something new each day! Thank you for this very helpful website."
-Allie

Such great help

"First of all, I would also want to thank for such great help you have been giving to people like me."
-Erdogmus

Thank you!

"I have learnt so much from your site - thank you!"
-oanna Urwin

Very useful

"Your site has been very useful to us as we are trying to fumble our way through the AE system.Thanks!"
-Aris

Excellent information

"Great website, thanks for all the excellent information."
-Ian Haycox

Great service

"Valerie, thanks for this and for all your help - what a great service you provide!"
-Carole

Amazing help

"I’m so glad I found your web site, it’s been an amazing help so far as I have been struggling a bit with all the different French information sources out there!!"
-Natalie Jennings

You’re a star

"Valerie, many thanks for your kind and valuable help."
-Richard

Very helpful

"This forum and your blogs has always been very helpful. Thank you very much."
-Erdogmus

Helpful and reassuring

"what a relief this forum exists - just reading other members’ queries and your replies is helpful and reassuring."
-Victor

This site is such a relief

"I’d have been scared witless by these tax forms without your help!"
-Lesley

Thanks so much

"Thanks so much for all your help, I don't know what we would do without you."
-Johny