French bookkeeping follows the strict Plan Comptable Général and requires FEC-exportable records. We map your accounts to PCG and prepare TVA and the liasse fiscale for your expert-comptable. France sits outside our published rate card, so the price comes back in writing within 24 hours.
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France requires a certified, tamper-evident accounting system, and e-invoicing reform is progressively making structured invoice exchange mandatory — so the software choice is a compliance decision, not just preference.
| Obligation | Frequency | Due | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Déclaration de TVA (CA3)VAT-registered businesses on the régime réel normal | Monthly | Between the 15th and 24th of the following month, by company type and SIREN | DGFiP |
| Liasse fiscale (annual accounts and tax package) | Annual | Second business day after 1 May for companies with a 31 December year end | DGFiP |
| Impôt sur les sociétés instalments | Quarterly | 15 March, 15 June, 15 September, 15 December | DGFiP |
| Déclaration sociale nominative (payroll declaration)Employers | Monthly | 5th or 15th of the following month depending on headcount | DGFiP |
Last reviewed against the source . These are the standard dates. Extensions through a registered agent, a non-calendar year end, and volume-based filing frequencies all shift them — confirm your own dates with DGFiP. This is general information, not tax advice.
Thirteen services across three teams, each described for France specifically rather than in general. Compliance is deliberately a separate team from bookkeeping, so liability and pricing stay clean.
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French bookkeeping is constrained twice over: by the Plan Comptable Général, which prescribes the account structure rather than leaving it to you, and by the FEC, the audit file DGFiP can demand in a fixed format. We map your ledger to PCG account numbers from the outset so the FEC exports cleanly and the CA3 TVA return ties back to the accounts behind it.
Bookkeeping in FranceQuoted in 24 hours · EUR
French catch-up work is judged by whether the FEC exports. If the ledger was never structured to the Plan Comptable Général, restatement is a re-mapping exercise, not a re-categorisation. We rebuild against PCG account numbers, reconstruct the monthly CA3 TVA positions, and get you back to a liasse fiscale that can actually be filed for a 31 December year end.
Catch-Up Bookkeeping in FranceQuoted in 24 hours · EUR
Most French cleanups are PCG mapping failures dressed up as coding errors. Accounts opened outside the prescribed structure make the FEC export unusable, and TVA coded at a blended rate never reconciles to the CA3. We re-map the chart to PCG account numbers, correct the rate treatment transaction by transaction, and restate so the liasse fiscale can be built from the ledger.
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We turn bill-paying from a scramble into a controlled, scheduled process.
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We shorten your cash-collection cycle and keep DSO under control.
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The DSN collapsed French payroll reporting into a single monthly declaration carrying social contributions with it, due on the 5th or the 15th of the following month depending on headcount. Collective agreements set entitlements the software has to be configured for. We work alongside Silae or your existing provider and reconcile the resulting charges to the ledger every month.
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A French controller has to close inside a chart of accounts they did not design. The Plan Comptable Général fixes the structure, the FEC has to stay exportable, and the liasse fiscale falls in early May for a 31 December year end. We own the close, keep the TVA positions reconciled monthly, and produce management accounts that map cleanly onto the statutory package.
Controller in FranceQuoted in 24 hours · EUR
Impôt sur les sociétés is paid in instalments on 15 March, 15 June, 15 September and 15 December, while the liasse fiscale that finally settles the year is not filed until early May. A French virtual CFO forecasts taxable profit against those four dates, models the TVA cash cycle, and builds management reporting on top of a chart of accounts designed for statutory filing, not for decisions.
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For a 31 December year end the liasse fiscale is due the second business day after 1 May, and it is less a return than a full statutory package — balance sheet, income statement and prescribed annexes, all in PCG format. We prepare the liasse and the supporting FEC, reconcile the IS instalments already paid, and work with your expert-comptable on filing.
Tax Preparation in FranceQuoted in 24 hours · EUR
TVA has four rates — 20%, 10%, 5.5% and 2.1% — and the CA3 return under the régime réel normal is due between the 15th and the 24th of the following month, with the exact day set by company type and SIREN. A business not established in France has no threshold to shelter behind. We code by actual rate so the return ties to the ledger.
Sales Tax · VAT · GST in FranceQuoted in 24 hours · EUR
We make your numbers investor-grade so diligence accelerates the round instead of stalling it.
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We rebuild your finance stack so the data flows automatically and the books stay clean by design.
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French cabinets d'expertise comptable lose capacity every spring to the same production work: bookkeeping mapped to the Plan Comptable Général, TVA reconciliation, and a FEC export tested before DGFiP or an auditor asks for it. We supply that layer inside your own PCG-structured chart of accounts, under your cabinet's name. Signing a mission d'expertise comptable stays with your registered expert-comptable — a title the 1945 ordonnance reserves to Ordre members, not something we hold or claim.
Read the France white-label accounting guideA Paris digital agency, 800 transactions a month, monthly TVA, 12 staff.
Figures in EUR. French employer social charges are a large share of fully loaded cost, which widens the gap against an outsourced team.
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France sits outside the published rate card, so the price comes from the file rather than a tier — a written quote in EUR within 24 hours of us seeing it. The full card is published for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
Built for the French pain points we hear most: PCG chart-of-accounts rigidity · FEC export requirements · TVA filing cadence.
We prepare to Plan Comptable Général (French GAAP). These are the bodies that set that framework and the authorities you file with — linked so you can verify the standard rather than take our word for it.
Listed for reference. Salt Accounting Group is not stating membership, registration or affiliation with any of these organisations. Where a filing must be lodged by a registered local agent, it is — your agent keeps the lodgement and the professional sign-off.
Tell us where you trade and what shape the books are in. You get scope, price and a start date in writing within one business day — no obligation.
