Financial & Legal

ACCOUNTANT

…who speaks English and knows the information required for second home owners in France.

Dixon Wilson in Paris:  Recommended by Alice Rosen (April 2022)

Louisa of Peter JohnsonSARL : for all tax; residence; compliance issues. Based in Aix-en-Provence but very good. Contact via email: louisa@peterjohnsonsarl.com (Recommend dad by Lovonne and Simon Burrow, May 2023).

….If you need payslips done:  KPMG in Montpellier – excellent on all fronts and they have English speaking personnel. (April 2022)

ATTORNEY / LAWYER

French estate/trust who speaks English

Penningtons Manches Cooper https://www.penningtonslaw.com/contact-us/paris  They looked after our family very well. Recommended by Alice Rosen (May 2022)

BANK (accepts non-residents)

Credit Agricole say they do not take on American (nor British) citizens!

Société Générale, Cavaillon branch, have a non-residents arm where accounts can be opened – a fair amount of paper involved but they do it. Recommended by Fiona.

We recently opened personal non-resident accounts at Bank Mediterranean through a broker called Robin Boxall. His details are below:   

ROBIN BOXALL

CHARGE CLIENTELE PARTICULIERS

AGENCE INTERNATIONAL E-BRANCH

22 BD VICTOR HUGO – 06000 NICE

Tél : 04.89.81.81.03  – Fax : 04.89.81.12.63  – Port : 06.19.58.78.04

Email : robin.boxall@bpmed.fr

Recommended by Helen Barrett and Jane Evans. 

BNP Paribas in L’Isle sur la Sorgue also do foreign bank accounts. Recommended by Simon Burrow (May 2022)

CIC  Recommended by Neil Brander (May 2022)

CERTIFIED TRANSLATOR

https://www.certifiedtranslationsonline.com/en/  I’ve always used these folks, ACS – fast, accurate and fairly-priced:  Recommended by Gary Brown

Traductions assermentées : agence de traducteurs-experts à Paris.  Obtenez la traduction assermentée, certifiée de tous vos documents en 3 étapes simples en ligne. Devis instantané et commande en ligne. https://traductions-assermentees.com  We have used this one several times. Excellent service too. Recommended by Jessy – Tao Provence.