As mentioned in a previous post, there has been a disagreement between the Government and CIPAV, which prevented the professions libérales from registering as auto-entrepreneurs. This issue has finally been settled and the law enabling the professions libérales to opt for the regime micro fiscal has been published in the Journal Officiel on 18th February 2009.
An average of 2,000 people have been registering as auto entrepreneurs on the official website www.lautoentrepreneur.fr since the 1st January 2009. There’s also been an issue with people wanting to register as professions liberales. Indeed the law enabling the registrations of services based activities, normally registered with Urssaf, such as consultant, teacher or telework, hasn’t been voted by the Senat or the Assemblee Nationale yet.
If you have an existing business registered as an entreprise individuelle in France, you cannot switch to the auto entrepreneur system. However you can decide to switch to the Regime Micro Social which will enable you to pay your social charges according to your actual turnover.