TheFitzs

Thank you Will, very useful. We have received advice from an accountant but will look into this further.

That was why I re-posted to attempt to clarify. The business will be run in the UK by the manager- we will not be running it in France. Apologies for causing confusion. Many thanks for the advice. Will continue to research the best private healthcare companies.

Sorry for any confusion. Our situation is: We are partners, self employed, in a nursery school business in the uk. We have staff and management employed in the uk. We currently pay PAYE tax and NI. Although one of us will not have paid continuious NI contributions for very long. (1 or 2 months). We already own our house in France and have done since Nov 10 and have paid all local taxes due since then. We would continue to operate the nursery with a manager. I hope that makes things a bit clearer and less confused.

Thank you so much for replying. We own a nursery school in the UK, and we will continue to run it as a self-employed partnership. The business, staff and revenue creation will remain in the UK.

Hi all, We're relocating to France in a fortnight (my husband, myself and our eighteen month old daughter) and we're desperately in need of some help and advice! I've spent another day on the phone and Internet today trying to make some sense of what we need to do with regards to French healthcare. We're self-employed but will be working for our British company in France so apparently are not entitled to a S1 certificate. We've spoken to various people who keep asking what we are entitled to, but at the moment we just can't find out! I think that we'll end up needing a hundred per cent private cover. Are there any companies that are better than others or that come highly recommended? Unfortunately we're still at a stage at the moment where we probably need an English-speaking company. We hope that after a period of time of living in France full time that we will then be eligible for French social security. Would this be the case? For this to happen, do we need to be making some contributions now? Apologies for so many questions on my first post. I've been researching this for months but don't seem to be making any headway and things are starting to feel a bit desperate! Thank you so much if you've had the patience to read through this. Any help at all would be enormously appreciated.