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Understanding the Different Types and Taxation of SCI in France

• SCI or non-trading property company can be created for family, rental, construction-sale, allocation, and time-share purposes.
• The rental SCI is the most common type, allowing several people to acquire and rent a property, and it can choose between two tax options: income tax (IR) or corporation tax (IS).
• The SCI for construction and sale is the only type that carries out a commercial activity, intended to build and resell housing, but only occasionally to avoid being assimilated to the activity of property dealers.
• An SCI can switch from income tax to corporation tax by convening a General Assembly and notifying the Business Tax Services within the first 3 months of the financial year, but not vice versa.
• Creating an SCI for a couple can offer advantages such as more advantageous transmission, protection of the surviving spouse, and transfer of shares without the sale of the jointly owned property.
• The SCI can be taxed under the income tax or corporate income tax regime, with social security contributions of 17.2% and marginal income tax bracket ranging from 11% to 45% for the last marginal bracket at €153,000.
• An SCI can also apply for VAT liability, which allows charging VAT to tenants and deducting VAT from costs, with legal VAT rate of 20%, and different exemptions and thresholds for various types of SCI.
• The creation of an SCI requires at least two partners who appoint a manager, and the deposit of capital is not mandatory before the creation of the company.
• The articles of association must be registered with the tax authorities and the tax office, filed with the Centre de Formalité des Entreprises, published in the legal gazette, and registered in the Trade and Companies Register.
• The articles of association must state the company name, registered office, company's activity, and other internal rules, with the content being relatively free but must provide for and anticipate everything.
• An SCI without statutes can be considered as non-existent, and the partners are then considered to be in joint ownership of the property, which is less favourable than the SCI regime.
• The activity of an SCI is said to be civil if it rents out property that has already been built or buys land with a view to building on it and then reselling it, but only in exceptional cases, while regularly buying land, building and reselling on a recurring basis is qualified as commercial.

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