**Take Home** Corridor · France · 2025/26 # Running a UK limited company from France On £150,000 a year through a UK limited company, a French resident keeps £82,446 against £87,303 staying in the UK, a difference of £4,857 a year. Change the income below and the numbers recalculate against the live engine. Live calculation ### What you keep in France Company revenue a year £ Revenue into the UK company, before corporation tax. You keep in France **£82,446** £6,871 a month · 45.0% of it goes in tax Staying UK resident **£87,303** -£4,857 a year Calculated by the Take Home cross-border engine, 2025/2026 rates. Directional estimate, not tax advice. CB [Charlie Bailey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliebaileyy/) · Founder, Take Home · 6 years in UK accountancy Published 2026-08-12 · Updated 2026-08-12 · 3-min read On this page - [What you actually keep in France](#numbers) - [The France options, priced](#regimes) - [What actually moves the number](#what-moves-it) - [When France starts taxing you](#residency) - [What this calculation assumes](#assumptions) - [Frequently asked](#faq) ## What you actually keep in France | Company revenue | UK resident | Standard rates | | --- | --- | --- | | £60,000 | £46,831 | £35,947 -£10,884 | | £100,000 | £66,668 | £56,721 -£9,947 | | £150,000 | £87,303 | £82,446 -£4,857 | | £250,000 | £130,448 | £133,896 +£3,448 | Every figure above is a separate call to the same engine the calculator uses, run at build time on 2026-08-12. The green column is the best available outcome at that income. ## The France options, priced - Standard rates. Ordinary French income tax plus social contributions on investment income. France has one regime to model here, which makes the structure and the residency date the only levers that matter. ## What actually moves the number - French social contributions on investment income are the part that moves the number, not the headline income tax rates. - France taxes the household rather than the individual, so a spouse and children change the result materially. - The engine models a single person with no dependants, which is the worst case for France specifically. ## When France starts taxing you Your home or principal place of stay being in France, or your main professional activity, or the centre of your economic interests. France reaches residence more easily than the day count suggests. The other half is the UK side. Leaving the UK tax net is the Statutory Residence Test, and running a UK company from outside the UK raises Central Management and Control and Permanent Establishment questions that are separate from your own residence. [Running a UK limited company while living abroad](/uk-ltd-from-abroad) covers both. ## What this calculation assumes - The company is assumed to distribute everything it can in the same year, after a director salary at the UK National Insurance threshold. Leaving profit in the company, or paying into a pension from it, changes the answer and is usually worth modelling. - Corporation tax is charged at UK rates throughout, because a company incorporated in the UK stays UK tax resident wherever its director lives. - Cross-border scenario detected. Check the applicable double-tax treaty between United Kingdom and France. - Source-country (United Kingdom) dividend withholding tax of 0% applied on the gross dividend; a foreign tax credit is granted in France up to the residence-country liability (relief under the applicable double-tax treaty). - Single-filer bands; couples double thresholds. CEHR surtax 3%/4% above 250k/500k. The last items are the engine's own disclosures, reproduced rather than summarised. Where a regime is not modelled it is named as not modelled, because a caveat you have to go looking for is not a caveat. Cross-border ## Model your whole position, not one number. Take Home tracks a UK company and France residence together, across the year rather than at one income. [Join the waitlist →](/contact) ## Related guides [Corridor ### Working for a UK employer from France You stay on a UK payroll and move your tax residence to France. 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Is France better than the UK on this income? On £150,000 the engine puts France £4,857 a year behind. That is one income and one set of assumptions. Below about £60,000 the gap narrows on most corridors, and the cost of living, healthcare and the cost of getting the move wrong are not in this number. Is this tax advice? No. It is an automated, directional estimate for information. Cross-border tax depends on your facts, treaty positions and timing, and the regimes on this page have qualifying conditions the calculator does not test. Take advice before you move.