Re:VAT
The Babel Fish translation of what you posted says
That's fine except we're talking about a foreign resident individual/corporation coming to work in the UK!
The French have probably just done their usual and ignored the EC rules. In any event if it came to an argument between the French and UK regimes, the UK regime would prevail.
The Babel Fish translation of what you posted says
2.2.4. Provisions of services in intellectual matter The provisions of services, such as transfers and concessions of rights of authors, patents, excise taxes, services of the advisers, engineers, offices d'études, accountancy, hiring of movable property body others that means of transport, provided by a person receiving benefits established out of France are famous to be in France when the taker is fixed with the VAT in France and y has the seat of its economic activity. On this assumption, the VAT is due by the taker.
The French have probably just done their usual and ignored the EC rules. In any event if it came to an argument between the French and UK regimes, the UK regime would prevail.
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