The role of a legal notice in the creation of a company
If you are the manager of a commercial, agricultural or even civil company, except micro-businesses, sole proprietorships and sole proprietorships with limited liability, you must write and publish a legal notice as soon as it is created. The purpose of this communication? Beyond promoting your activity, it guarantees transparency about your legal and legal information, indicates the Ministry of Finance.
Among them, it will be essential to include your status, your SIRET number, your share capital, your administrative address, etc. This legal announcement informs the public, from competitors to investors and administrative services. So they know the important data of your company, such as its creation, its change of manager, status, address, as well as its dissolution or liquidation in certain cases. At the time of its publication, your company receives a receipt from the legal announcements newspaper that can be used for other administrative procedures. A certificate that must be presented, in particular, at the registry when there is a change in the information visible on the Kbis, the “identity card” of your company.
The cost of publishing a legal notice
The publication of this note in a legal notice journal generates costs for your company. Previously indexed to the number of lines, the calculation of the price of a legal advertisement has been regulated since January 1, 2021 and set by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. The amount is divided into two rate tables:
Depending on the legal form of your company, its geographical location will be fixed. The amount of the legal announcements published in the case of the creation of the company, its dissolution or the modification of the name of the administrator is fixed. For company incorporation in certain departments, prices range from €180 to €400 and go up to €450 for Réunion and Mayotte. For a dissolution, the cost fluctuates between €108 and €175, and around fifty euros during a name change.
In case of change of registered office, activity, administrator, addition of partners, change of capital, the amount is calculated in relation to the number of characters. Again, the price depends on the location of the business. However, it is unique for all companies. Thus, the calculation is determined at the price per character (including spaces) x the number of characters.
What should your legal notice include?
If the sites to publish legal notices now offer to fill out complete and intuitive forms, with the legal and administrative information that must be mentioned in the letter for it to be considered a legal notice:
- the name of your company, with its initials, if applicable,
- the legal form (SARL, SCI, EURL, etc.),
- the amount of the share capital,
- the life of your company (not exceeding 99 years),
- the address of the registered office,
- the corporate purpose, that is, the activity of your company,
- the registration number in the Mercantile and Companies Registry (RCS),
- the names of the managers,
- the direction.
If writing a legal ad seems tedious, let yourself be guided by the intuitive way of the site where you will present it. You will simply be asked to fill out the information and legal paperwork related to your company. The tool will take care of its formatting automatically.
Where to publish a legal notice?
A legal notice must appear in a paper or digital medium authorized to receive this type of communication, commonly called a legal notice newspaper. Attention, it must be in the same department as your head office. Complete and up-to-date lists can be found online. Otherwise, other sites act as intermediaries between you and legal ad newspapers, with certificate of immediate publication to be delivered to the registry.
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Source: BFM TV
