That’s it: you’re ready to launch your business! But before you can devote yourself fully to it, you must complete a certain number of mandatory formalities, alone or accompanied by your advisor—a quick overview of what awaits you.
To create your business, you must register and declare it to various administrative bodies (tax services and social organizations). For what? To give it an actual existence and endow your structure with a moral personality. Before January 1, 2023, the entrepreneur had to, depending on the nature of his activity, identify his CFE (business formalities center) among six possible networks of organizations:
Since January 1, 2023. The CFEs have closed, and the one-stop-shop has become the only way to submit formalities.
The one-stop shop is a dashboard where you must submit all your formalities. It then transmits your request to the competent organizations (INSEE, for example) and so-called “validating” organizations, namely:
The one-stop shop “shuttles” between you and the institutions to complete, validate, or reject your creation formality. Attention! When the declared activity falls under a professional monopoly (lawyer, notary, etc.), the file submitted must include a document justifying your registration with a professional order.
Once the process is validated, your activity will be registered:
From January 1, 2023, all commercial, artisanal, liberal, and agricultural activities must be registered with the RNE. This register centralizes a large amount of information accessible:to the public, free of charge, except for accounting documents covered by a confidentiality declaration; in full, to certain persons authorized by law (INSEE, tax administration, notaries, etc.).
You will get several numbers for your business:
Once the formalities have been completed, any natural or legal person who must register with the RCS is issued with an “identity card” called K-Bis. This document proves your registration and includes a certain number of information such as the complete identity of the company (registration number, name, head office address, activity, SIREN number, APE code, identity of managers, etc.), the reference to the authorizations necessary for the exercise of a regulated activity, the mention of secondary establishments located in countries of the European Union, etc.
Also, remember to mention the domain name of your website to the RCS because this has several advantages:
Apart from the costs and fees you must pay your advisors if you use their services, the obligatory formalities are chargeable without counting additional expenses (such as trademark registration, ancillary services, training, etc.). Costs vary, particularly on your future activity (individual business or company) and its geographical location.
Registration costs, publication costs, and insertion costs in a legal notice newspaper or an online press service authorized to publish legal notices, etc., must be considered. Plan a budget to cover these obligatory expenses (on average between €50 to €70 for an individual commercial business, €180 to €200 for a craft business, and €400 to €450 for a company – prices given for purely indicative purposes ). Free. Note that although the one-stop shop collects payment for formalities, it is accessible.
When declaring your activity at the one-stop shop, you will need to provide the following elements:
You will need to draw up (or have drawn up) statutes and, where applicable, register them with the tax service (remember to establish a statement of acts carried out in the name of the company being formed), designate the first directors or managers, possibly call on a contributions commissioner if you make contributions in kind, contact the bank to deposit the cash contributions in a blocked account during the registration of the company, etc.
Contact, if necessary, your landlord to obtain authorization (the rental generally concerns premises allocated to housing: check any conditions provided for in the lease to be authorized to give housing, at least in part, for professional use); if your accommodation is located in a collective building, contact the co-ownership to obtain, in the same way and for the same reasons, authorization to domicile the company in your home.
Even if the one-stop shop notifies the tax service of the company’s creation (a declaration of existence is usually sent to it), certain formalities will be your responsibility. In particular, you will need to complete a provisional statement of business property tax (no. 1447-C) before December 31 of the year of creation. This declaration will determine the tax bases for this contribution, represented by the rental value of the premises used for the needs of the professional activity.
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