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We offer our services across a wide range of fields.

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Each of our areas of expertise can be tailored to your specific needs and to the legal structure of your business.

Accounting and tax

We take care of your accounting and tax obligations, from day-to-day bookkeeping to annual accounts and returns.

Administrative and accounting delegation

We offer a full range of services, from bookkeeping and annual accounts to tax returns, payroll outsourcing, employment contracts and legal formalities. As a trusted third party (tiers de confiance), we also manage your exchanges with the authorities on your behalf.

This offer can cover the following services:

Bookkeeping and/or review of the accounts
Preparation of the annual accounts (balance sheet, income statement and notes)
Preparation of tax returns
Simulation of the régime réel (actual-profit tax regime) against the micro BIC/BNC regime (simplified micro-business regime)
Outsourcing of payroll and social security filings
Preparation of employment contracts
Introduction to an insurance broker to set up a group protection and health insurance scheme (prévoyance/mutuelle collective)
Introduction to a wealth management adviser for a free, no-obligation review of your assets
Annual legal secretarial work (minutes of general meetings, filing of the annual accounts)
One-off legal formalities
Management of exchanges with the authorities (trusted third party)
Assistance in finding public funding
Assistance with tax audits

Bookkeeping and/or review of the accounts

We support you in managing your accounts, from day-to-day bookkeeping to the year-end review. We provide digital tools that simplify the exchange and processing of your accounting and non-accounting data.

The engagement includes the following:

Day-to-day bookkeeping
Year-end review of the accounts

Preparation of the annual accounts

We support you in preparing your annual summary documents. Digital tools simplify the exchange and processing of your accounting and non-accounting data.

We assist you in preparing the annual summary documents:

The balance sheet
The income statement
The notes to the accounts

Preparation of tax returns

We carry out tax engagements for businesses and individuals, helping you prepare your periodic or annual tax returns. As a trusted third party, we handle these filings on your behalf so that you can concentrate fully on growing your business. Tax obligations vary according to the taxes and levies that apply to you, and their extent depends on the tax regime you fall under.

Simulation: régime réel or micro BIC/BNC

We set out the tax and social security options open to you: the micro BIC/BNC regime (simplified micro-business regime) or the régime réel (actual-profit regime, known as the déclaration contrôlée for self-employed professionals). If your turnover is below the micro-business thresholds, you may waive the micro regime and opt for the régime réel.

We run the simulation for you:

Assessment of the regime that is most advantageous for your situation
Check that moving to the régime réel is genuinely more advantageous in your case
Estimate of your tax and social contribution savings
A personalised simulation

Payroll and social security

We prepare your pay slips and the social security filings that go with them.

Outsourcing of payroll and social security filings

We support you in preparing pay slips, which are made available to you on a secure platform, and we take care of the related social security filings.

We assist you with:

Pay slips, which are sent to you on a secure platform
The related social security filings: periodic returns are prepared electronically and sent directly to the relevant bodies, with payment instructions for the due date

Legal

We assist with the legal documents and formalities of your company or association, every year and whenever an event requires it.

Annual legal formalities

We assist you in drafting the legal documents relating to the approval and annual filing of your entity’s accounts, in carrying out the filing formalities, and in keeping the register of general meetings.

We assist you with:

Drawing up the legal documents required for the approval and annual filing of your entity’s accounts
Completing the formalities for filing the annual accounts with the registry of the competent commercial court (greffe du Tribunal de commerce) or, where applicable, with the Journal officiel des associations et fondations d’entreprise (JOAFE)
Creating, updating and keeping the register of general meetings

One-off legal formalities

We support you in carrying out your one-off legal formalities: setting up companies or associations, minutes of meetings, amendments to the articles of association, changes of directors and similar procedures.

A few examples:

Setting up a company or an association
Minutes of an Ordinary or Extraordinary General Meeting, or of a board meeting, where no filing formalities apply (remuneration of executive bodies, exceptional dividend distributions, etc.)
Amendments to the articles of association (company name, corporate purpose, transfer of the registered office, change of year-end date, etc.)
Changes of directors, partners or members

Advice and funding

We provide hands-on support and advice on financial management, public funding and tax audits.

Advice – hands-on support for finance departments

We provide hands-on support to finance departments, from cash-flow analysis to interim management.

This support includes:

Cash-flow analysis
Production of financial reports
Forecasting of accounting data
Identification of public funding
Optimisation of the director’s remuneration
Preparation of the business plan
Support with market research
Management of payment schedules and tax forecasts
Assistance with tax audits
Interim management, for optimal financial management

Support in finding public funding

We support you in finding the public funding that suits your organisation and your project.

Our support includes:

Monthly monitoring of the public grants and schemes available
A review of public grants and schemes, with roadmaps
Eligibility reports

Assistance with tax audits

We assist you throughout a tax audit, from the inspector’s first visit to the reply to any proposed reassessment (proposition de rectification).

Our assistance includes:

Attending important meetings, in particular the inspector’s first visit
Managing relations with the inspector throughout the procedure
Compiling the file and providing all the documents requested
Checking that the requests made by the audit body or bodies are legitimate
Answering all questions and requests with expertise
Preparing, where appropriate, a reply to the proposed reassessment

Performing arts and entertainment

An offer dedicated to artists, songwriters and composers, and performing-arts organisations.

Entertainment

We provide a full range of services for the arts and entertainment sectors: accounting, tax specific to the performing arts (ticketing and so on), contract management, cash management, budgeting, and the audit and identification of public funding. We also give tax advice specific to artists and songwriter-composers.

Our services include:

Outsourcing of accounting (bookkeeping, review of the accounts, specific management accounting, etc.)
Preparation of tax returns (VAT, income tax, corporate income tax, etc.)
Accounting and tax treatment of the income of artists and songwriter-composers (BNC non-commercial profits, salaries and wages, VAT on royalties, etc.)
Tax advice (VAT, artistic and ancillary income, sponsorship and partnerships, etc.)
Outsourcing of payroll (including that of intermittents du spectacle, entertainment professionals on short-term contracts)
Outsourcing of social security filings
Employment contracts
Annual and one-off legal secretarial work (minutes of meetings, legal formalities, etc.)
Calculation of the production cost of a project (tour, festival, etc.)
Preparation of forecast and actual budgets for each project
Preparation of forecast and actual budgets for the organisation as a whole
Monitoring and management of cash flow
Identification of public funding
Support in preparing the financial report on a grant (compte rendu financier de subvention)
Audit of public funding with a view to issuing a certificate

Start a business in France

Support for foreign entrepreneurs who set up and run a business in France.

Setting up a business in France

FKO offers a wide range of services, from project analysis to support for foreign entrepreneurs with their immigration formalities, in particular for the temporary residence permit “Entrepreneur / Profession libérale” (self-employed professional). The services below cover business plan preparation, the choice of legal status, administrative and financial management, and accounting, tax and social security filings.

Our services include:

Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the project
Preparation of the business plan (1)
Identification of public funding
Assistance in choosing the legal, social security and tax status
Assistance with the administrative and financial set-up (drafting the articles of association, incorporation formalities, etc.)
VAT registration in France of a foreign company with no permanent establishment in France (2)
Claim for a refund of French VAT by a foreign taxable person (3)
Outsourcing of accounting (bookkeeping and/or review of the accounts, specific management accounting, etc.)
Outsourcing of the company’s tax compliance: VAT return, EU services declaration (déclaration européenne des services, DES), declaration of trade in goods (Intrastat reports: dispatches and/or arrivals), transfer pricing policy declaration, etc.
Tax and social security filings for songwriter-composers and artists
Tax credit certification engagements
Outsourcing of payroll and social security filings
Support with the impatriation of employees (employees relocating to France)
Annual and one-off legal formalities

(1) (1) FKO assists in particular foreign managers from outside the EU/EEA or Switzerland who wish to set up a business in France. To do so, they must hold a residence permit that allows it. One example is the temporary residence permit “Entrepreneur / Profession libérale”. To be eligible, the entrepreneur must, among other things, show that the business is economically viable. The permit authorises the holder to carry on the commercial, industrial or craft activity linked to the project presented. FKO therefore helps you prepare a business plan, to be attached to the residence permit application (filed with the competent préfecture).
(2) (2) Some foreign companies must register for VAT in France even if they have no permanent establishment there. This is the case for companies with no permanent establishment in France that carry out transactions requiring a registration for customs purposes or the filing of VAT returns: VAT registration is then necessary.
(3) (3) Businesses that are subject to VAT or an equivalent tax (in their home country), are not established in France, and carry out transactions for which they are not required to pay VAT or which are exempt, may claim a refund of VAT using form 10633*06.

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