Get VAT Registration in France
Your company is belonging to the European Union and you wish to register for a VAT number in France?
Or you represent an overseas company and require a VAT registration in France for your business?
French-Office can help you to easily obtain a VAT registration in France.
Your VAT Registration in France makes you compliant with French Authorities.
Any commercial company established in the European Union and liable for VAT, has to possess an individual number of identification. This number is composed of the FR code, a key with two numbers, and the SIREN number of the company.
You are a EU company
Some explanation if you are a e-commerce retailer about the compliance for the VAT.
With stocking in France
If you have some storage in France, you must be registered with the French tax office.
This happens when you work with a marketplace storing your goods in France or when you outsource your orders fulfillment to a logistic third party.
With significant sales
When you ship your goods directly from EU to your French customers, the VAT registration in France becomes mandatory when your sales turnover in France is exceeding €35000 yearly.
Below €35000, your national VAT number is applicable.
You are an overseas company
You want to do business in France and you are outside EU.
What are the rules about VAT compliance if you are in UK, US, Canada, China, etc?
Using a warehouse in France
Are you representing a non-EU country dispatching your items from a warehouse located in France?
The warehouse can be a marketplace (like Amazon, Ebay, Fnac, Cdiscount, La Redoute, etc) or it can be a logistics provider or any other third party. You are required to be compliant with VAT registration in France. In some cases, a tax representative is also required.
Logistics Obligation
A third party (French-Office also) cannot accept to
store and ship your goods if you are not able to provide your VAT French number.
Get your French VAT number in France
French-Office is an agent able to help with the VAT registration in France.
We can also register for an EORI number.
Before doing any procedure for this formality, we need information about your company and business. And we request data and documents like your company’s certificate of incorporation, your legal representative’ ID card, the HS codes or description of your goods, your distribution channel, your expected flows.
The French VAT registration form
This VAT Registration Application form is consisting of different parts.
The major part of this form concerns the identification of your company and its legal representatives (company owner or manager).
We will require the registered address in your country and a valid email and phone number. Of course your existing VAT number in your country is mandatory.
You have also to describe the nature and conditions of business activity. Please indicate if your customers are individuals, businesses or other entities. You inform us about your website or the marketplaces you are working with.
Note that the French authorities allocate VAT French numbers only when the French business is starting. It means that if you expect to do business in France in the future, please wait for the first operations before requiring your VAT number.
Once we have all information about your company, we submit your registration to the Tax department within 4 days. We do the registration and send all your documents to the French authorities by post.
Expect one month to get back your French VAT number.
We remind you that you can indicate on your invoices and contracts that your VAT number is pending. It should not prevent you from beginning your French activities.
For more information feel free to contact us !
About a mailing address in France
We remind you that we also propose an address for correspondence. And you will be able to use it with the French authorities. This address is highly recommended.
A tax representative
If your company is currently located in US, Canada, China, etc, (outside EU) a French tax representative is required. French-Office can be the tax agent handling your VAT returns.
VAT returns
Every month, you provide us with the total sales using a dedicated template. We calculate the amount to be paid to the French authorities, we transfer the monthly file of the VAT returns and organize the direct debit from your bank account.
Required docs for VAT registration
To satisfy all the conditions to obtain VAT number in France, you need also to gather all the following documents :
- A copy of a certificate of registration in your country or its equivalency.
- A copy of all your company memorandum plus a document translated in French and gathering the main items of your statutes (legal form, partners, manager, registered capital, objects).
This is not applicable for the sole proprietorship. The French translation must concern the main items of your statutes. - Copy of the identity card of the legal representative.
- Original power of attorney signed by both parties (if you opt for a tax agent).
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