A Sole Proprietorship with Limited Liability is exactly the same as a SARL with just one employee. Easy to access and suitable for a wide range of business sectors, it's a legal status that's very popular with entrepreneurs.
As a natural person must have an official residence address, companies must have a registered office address. The head office address is to a company what the official residence address is to an individual.
Also known as the "domiciliation address", this is a legal requirement for all French companies, including EURLs, in order to obtain registration with the RCS (Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés) or the Court Registry. This address designates the official point of contact with theadministration to which your business mail will be sent.
How do you choose the address for the registered office of an EURL? There are three ways to domicile your company: in your own home or that of the company's legal representative, in a business premises, or opt for a company domiciliation service provided by a domiciliation company. How to make the best choice?
Explanations.
The registered office of an EURL is a key element of the company's personality, and must be chosen with the utmost care from the outset.
And with good reason: this location must be mentioned on all official company documents (invoices, order forms, quotations, delivery notes, articles of association, general sales conditions, etc.). This address also appears in all official paper and online directories.
The choice of address is also a question of image, and should be as positive as possible. It is therefore essential to choose an address that reflects a serious, positive and dynamic image of your company at the time of its creation.
A company director wishing to domicile his EURL can choose between several options:
The manager's personal residence
Any legal entity is entitled to set up its registered office at the domicile of its legal representative and carry on business there. Although this may appear to be an economical solution, it has major drawbacks when it comes to protecting privacy.
The address of an EURL's registered office must appear on all its official documents, which means that the address of the company director's personal residence must be publicly disclosed.
If you are a tenant in a condominium, the domiciliation of your EURL at your personal residence must not disrupt the lives of the other condominium owners and/or tenants in the building.
In fact, you need to make sure that your registered address complies with regulations governing town planning or housing clauses.
It should be noted that a manager has the right to domicile his company at his own home for a maximum of 5 years. At the end of this period, the registered office must be changed.
Renting commercial premises
This option is particularly costly, and obliges an EURL to pay a monthly rent, deposits and guarantees to honor the conditions of the commercial lease.
If you choose this option, you'll need to transfer your registered office if you change premises, and you'll have to go through a series of administrative formalities with the Registrar of the Commercial Court, such as amending your company's Articles of Association.
Using a domiciliation company
This alternative is the ideal choice for benefiting from the many services offered by domiciliation companies to lighten the daily burden of company directors, as well as CFE (Cotisations Foncières des Entreprises) reductions. This option avoids the need to transfer or move your company, as well as the costly rent imposed by commercial premises for your offices.
The domiciliation will then be declared to the CFE (Centre de Formalités des Entreprises) when you set up your business. You will then be able to register with the RCS and start your business.
Corporate domiciliation offers several major advantages for your business:
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Display a prestigious and prestigious head office address in Paris, one of France's most fashionable cities and metropolises. Thanks to domiciliation companies, you can easily separate your registered office from your actual place of work. Business domiciliation means that your personal address is not disclosed to the general public. This protects your privacy. Good to know: If you need to move premises, you can avoid transferring your registered office and the time-consuming formalities involved in amending the company's articles of association by domiciling your SCI.
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Minimize set-up, installation and running costs. You can access a wide range of prestigious addresses in France's most fashionable towns and cities, while conducting your business from a different location. This allows you todisplay a prestigious address without incurring the cost of renting commercial premises at the same address.
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Save on taxes. By locating your head office in a commune with a low CFE (Cotisation Foncière des Entreprises) tax rate, you can simply optimize your tax burden.
Commercial domiciliation enables entrepreneurs to benefit from an administrative address not subject to the limitations of a lease or co-ownership contract.
The offers of a domiciliation company like SeDomicilier are without commitment over the duration of your contract, unlike a traditional commercial lease where the duration can be long.
A domiciliation company offers legal domiciliation services to individuals and legal entities. Approved by the local prefecture, it provides its customers with a registered office as well as a postal, commercial and administrative address.
A domiciliation company offers entrepreneurs head office addresses at the most prestigious locations in Paris and other French metropolises. However, they don't just offer a mailbox to domicile a company.
Domiciliation companies such as SeDomicilier offer tailor-made support when setting up your company (whatever your legal form: micro-enterprise, SASU, SAS, SARL, EURL, etc.). It's common for entrepreneurs to call on the recommendations of online experts to help them successfully complete their business project, and to provide support with legal formalities and procedures.
They also offer a wide range of complementary services to their customers:
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Day-to-day management of business mail, including collection, digitization and forwarding. Incoming mail is digitized and made available on a personalized platform.
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Telephone switchboard to take messages in your absence
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Legal and administrative assistance in setting up your company and handling your formalities
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Rental of meeting rooms, etc.
All services can be subscribed to, modified or interrupted from a personalized, secure dashboard.
Available from €16 per month, commercial domiciliation is an invaluable tool contributing to the success of your business. It's the ideal alternative to domiciling at the legal representative's home or in commercial premises, where you would have to pay a hefty rent.
SeDomicilier aims to be the entrepreneur's right-hand man, offering complete, flexible solutions for EURL business domiciliation, with no hidden costs: all it takes is 5 minutes to get your domiciliation contract!
Written by our expert Paul LASBARRERES-CANDAU
September 13, 2021
