Leave.
We keep the evidence.
Your tax residence file, built before you leave — while the documents still exist — and kept up to date for as long as it may be requested from you.
Departure: 14 January 2027 · Portugal
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What is at stake
€1,068 set against your worldwide income.
If the tax authorities treat you as a French resident, it is not a fine: it is the basis of your taxation that changes, retroactively, for the years concerned.
The file
incl. VAT, once only. Then €39 incl. VAT per month to update it every year and keep it for as long as the tax authorities can request it.
- OnceBuilt before departure, while the documents still exist.
- DatedEach document bears the date it was uploaded, not the current date.
- DocumentedSealed with a SHA-256 hash that any change alters.
Being reclassified as a French tax resident
Taxed in France for the reassessed years (Article 4 A of the French Tax Code). Late-payment interest is added; penalties, for their part, require the tax authorities to establish intent.
- 2.4% a yearlate-payment interest (0.20% per month), due automatically — nearly 10% over four years.
- 40%penalty if a deliberate breach is established.
- 80%in the case of fraudulent manoeuvres — the rarest scenario.
No file guarantees an outcome, and we promise none. What a complete file, dated and sealed by its hash, changes is what you are able to produce on the day the question is asked.
On the day of the request
The same question, in two situations.
“Prove that you were not tax-domiciled in France in 2027.” You have thirty days to respond.
Without a prepared file
You go looking for the documents.
With the file
You respond with a document that is already dated.
An illustrative example
Four years between departure and the question.
The time lag is the rule, not the exception. That is what makes it impossible to build the file when you need it.
What you use
Not a questionnaire. An instrument of proof.
One closed answer per criterion, the consequence stated before you answer, and the supporting document required named where you upload it. Nothing is guessed on your behalf.
The last document submitted is dated November 2027. To document the year 2028, a document dated 2028 is required. You can submit it from your account.
The point that concerns you: the definition of a permanent home. Your file has been reviewed; none of your documents is called into question.
We flag what changes. We recommend no product, and an alert is never followed by a sales follow-up.
The substance
Eleven criteria, in the order in which they are examined.
First, domestic law: a single criterion is enough to make you a French resident. Only then the tax treaty, and only within its material scope.
Domestic law — Article 4 B
A single criterion is enough. None is a day count, none is weighted.
Tax treaty — Article 4
A cascade: you move down a rung only if the one above has not settled the question.
The process
Four steps, no appointment required.
Everything is done from your client area. You can stop at any step and pick up later: what you have entered is saved.
The price
Two lines, announced in advance.
The departure file is paid for once. The subscription keeps it accurate. There is no third line.
Before departure
Analysed, compiled and delivered with its documentary completeness status.
- Documented tax residence study
- Document file compiled item by item
- French obligations to settle before departure
- Departure day formalities
- Insurability of your profile and destination country
Then, every month
Your file stays up to date and available, without you having to think about it.
- Storage of your documents for as long as they may be requested
- Annual update of your file
- Monitoring of tax treaties and tax doctrine
- Alert when a document no longer covers the current year
- A single point of contact, a single consent, export at any time
€59 incl. VAT / month (€49.17 excl. VAT), i.e. €708.00 incl. VAT over the year, from the 101st subscriber. Offered when your file is delivered, never before.
What is included
Everything listed above, at no extra cost.
Your file made available within five working days if the tax authorities request it, provided the necessary information is available and usable.
What is not
Your tax returns: we prepare the documents, we do not file them for you.
Legal advice and taxation in your host country.
Support in the event of a tax audit, charged per service, price stated in advance.
Prices include VAT at 20%. Account creation is free: it opens your client area and the subscription process. The Residence module opens upon payment of the departure file.
The limits of the service
What we do not do.
Saying it here saves you discovering it later. It is also what makes everything else credible.
Questions
What we are asked before subscribing.
Because the module is the product, not a demo. The free account opens your client area and the subscription process: there you see the contents of the file, the price and the documents to sign before committing. The module itself opens upon payment of the departure file.
No, and no serious professional will tell you in advance. We document each criterion of Article 4 B, then, where relevant, those of the applicable tax treaty. What you get is a file that holds up, not an opinion that commits no one.
No. The file is built with the documents that exist on the date you upload them. What is missing is recorded as missing, with the required supporting document named. This is precisely the period when documents can still be retrieved.
Yes, as long as the years concerned are not time-barred. The logbook goes back to N−5: past years are documented with the documents still available, and what is missing is recorded as missing rather than reconstructed.
You can export all of your documents for ninety days after cancellation, with no need to give a reason. Your access to your account is not closed: what you have paid for remains viewable.
Yes, within fourteen days of signing. If you ask us to start immediately, you expressly waive this period — the box is in the contract, and it is never ticked in advance.
The 2027 documents exist in 2027.
Creating your account costs nothing and commits you to nothing. You see the contents of the file, the price and the documents to sign before deciding.
