Anton

Hi, I have been doing exactly this for five years. It's complicated but worth doing as it gets you into the French system. You need a friendly employer and in the end I have been my employer's French payment department. If you are doing it the employee route you need to contact URSSAF in Strasbourg who are the office dealing with overseas companies. But your employer will also need to register with Pole Emploi (to cover unemployment benefits) and Taibout (to cover pension). You will then need to liaise with these three departments and pay cotisations every 3 months. It is a lot more expensive for your employer than the UK NI equivalent and a lot more bureaucratic. The freelance route might work via the autoentrepreneur scheme but when I asked about it (before the autoentrepreneur scheme existed) for a small extra job they sent me a questionnaire and then told me that I wouldn't be freelance but in fact would be an employee - and all for £500 of work. Good luck. Happy to give more advice if needed.