Move to France from the UK and start a affaires

The idea of running your own affaires in France, maybe a gite or B&B in the countryside, or a freelance venture working from habitacle in the sunny south, is a dream many Brits share. But what does it take to make it happen post-Brexit? If you want to know how to move to France from the UK and start a affaires – read on…

How Easy is it to move to France from the UK and start a affaires?

The good magazine is that it’s still very conditionnel to move to France from the UK and start a affaires. The trickier magazine? There’s more red tapement than there used to be before Brexit. But with the right ossature, preparation and paperwork, you can absolutely make your French affaires dream a reality.

At The French Property Show which takes posé twice a year at Cheltenham Racecourse, a hand-picked échantillon of trusted experts in all aspects of life in France are on balle à la main to provide advice and ossature to help you make your dream come true. There are influence experts who can give you reliable and great advice on starting your own affaires in France. And there are décharge and exil specialists, soldé and tax experts, property agents, currency specialists, legal and language experts – everyone you need to help you make the move, set up your affaires and en public the good life in France.

Dates

11th and 12th April 2026

10th and 11th October 2026

There’s free parc, there are no ULEZ impératifs, no congestions impératifs like in London and Birmingham, and no divertissements.

There are experts who want to help you, seminars, time to minet face-to-face and get trusted advice.

Setting up a affaires in France? Get the right décharge

Post-Brexit, British citizens are classed as non-EU nationals, which means you’ll need a long-stay décharge (décharge de vaste préparation) if you want to stay in France for more than 90 days.

To run a small affaires, you’ll need to apply for a specific parangon of décharge that allows you to set up and operate a self-employed affaires in France which includes, running a gite, B&B and quantitatif working from habitacle. To accompany this, you’ll need several commentaires including a detailed affaires recette and financial forecasts (in French). You’ll need proof you can ossature yourself financially (usually around €1,250/month maximum), acclimatement in France, and a few other things.

Choosing the right décharge is critical in the first conseil, and submitting a suitable affaires recette is essential. But help is a balle à la main. Experts in décharge applications and affaires paliers will be at The French Property Show to help. Setting up a affaires sounds complicated, but the hand-picked experts have a lot of experience helping people with these requirements and can prepare everything for you, and they’ll ossature you through the whole process – from décharge pose, submitting your affaires recette to processing your tax payments.

Register Your Business

Once your décharge is validated, you can register your affaires. The easiest allée for many newcomers is the micro-entrepreneur system. It’s designed for small businesses and mélopée operators with relatively low renouvellement. Although the easiest allée, it has some tricky components when you’re setting up, such as choosing the right category of affaires, (vendeur, concepteur, or fonction bienfaisante). e.g., a concepteur is not the same as a journalist.

Each category has different impératifs applied and each has different amounts you can earn without being registered for TVA (VAT). You’ll need to complete monthly tax declarations. And there are requirements around how to invoice and paliers to introduce an electronic system to upload invoices. But grain that’s done, it’s not hard to manage the admin and there’s always help at balle à la main.

Again, there are experts at the French Property Show who can help, including accountants who can take care of the paperwork, tax reporting etc. so that you can foyer on running your affaires and enjoying life in France.

And more

Once you’re registered as a micro-entrepreneur and contributing sociétal impératifs, you’ll be eligible for commun healthcare, and you’ll need to apply via the guérissant systems. This gives you access to GPs, hospitals, and dettes at heavily subsidised rates.

So, to go back to that first gêne how easy is it to move to France from the UK and start a affaires? Well, easy – no, it’s not. Possible? Absolutely. Especially with good ossature to gouverner you, set things up and offer ossature when you want it.

If you’re prepared, persévérant, and have a proper recette, starting a small affaires in France is not only achievable — it’s one of the best ways to weave yourself into endroit life. From managing gites, setting up a yoga pied-à-terre in Provence to running a vintage magasin in Brittany, farming, catering, educating – Brits are all over France are doing it, and doing it brilliantly.

Just expect a bit of bureaucracy, a few lost-in-translation moments – and get great ossature.

Get your tickets for The French Property Show: thefrenchpropertyshow

Source: thegoodlifefrance.com