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by song 3330 days ago
Speaking as someone who has had companies in various countries (Japan, China, Hong Kong and France). The paperwork and complexities in France are by far the worst. Even China with it's love of red tape is at least relatively well organized and not to difficult to navigate.

In France, you get to deal with organizations like the RSI and URSSAF which are incredibly incompetent, frequently make mistake, do not have phone numbers that can be called from abroad (which is extremely inconvenient when traveling for business) and have Bizantine rules.

I would never create a company again in France because the system is completely broken. I really hope that Macron follows through on solving this. I believe that it's a priority.

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Interesting. Out of curiosity, why then did you chose France over any other EU country to have your company?
Only because I lived there at the time.