The Foreign Firm Slip, step by step
As soon as your email address is validated, your enrolment is taken into account by the Foreign Firm national centre for registering and validating it.
As soon as you receive the acknowledgement of receipt of enrolment, you can declare your employees using your Siret no. and the password that you chose.
In order to guarantee your employees' rights to services, you must contact, in parallel to your enrolment request for the TFE, the various social bodies that you depend on (according to the national collective agreement that applies to your company in France) in order to complete a registration dossier (there are no registration fees or extra cost in terms of contributions). This step is indispensable for the proper management of your dossier.
This voucher allows you to take care of all the formalities pertaining to hiring at one time: it serves as an employment contract and unique declaration of employment.
It must be entered on www.tfe.urssaf.fr before hiring. In the event the same employee is hired successively, a new voucher must be established for each contract.
If you use the TFE for an employee that is already present in the company, you must also fill out this voucher.
This voucher allows you to declare the elements that are needed to calculate the contributions (elements concerning compensation, number of hours, period of employment, etc.). This must be entered on www.tfe.urssaf.fr
The Foreign Firm national centre:
- calculates the contributions owed for you;
- put at your disposal the pay slip in your space "Employer";
- sends you a contribution breakdown once a month and a monthly summary statement.
The social contributions intended to finance the collective plans with mandatory enrolment (Social security, unemployment insurance, complementary retirement and, where applicable, supplemental retirement, provident fund, health care or paid holiday fund) are collected by the Urssaf Alsace.
Each month, the Foreign Firm national centre sends you a breakdown showing the amount of contributions owed.
This breakdown is made available on the site on the first day of the month following the month when the social voucher was entered.
Two payment methods are available:
- the simplest is via automatic bank debit for companies that have a bank account in France . The debit takes place in your account on the 15th of the month following the sending of the contribution breakdown;
- via international bank transfer to be done at the beginning of the month following the reception of the breakdown of your contributions, to the order of the Urssaf Alsace.
You must settle directly with each body involved the contributions intended to finance continued vocational training, the health department in the workplace as well as the individual or optional plans for social protection, the apprenticeship tax and where applicable, the contribution to the development fund for the professional insertion of the handicapped.
As for contributions owed to optional provident fund or retirement bodies, the total amount is mentioned on the contribution breakdown and the details are provided on the monthly summary statement that is sent to you at the same time as this contribution breakdown.
The Foreign Firm national centre establishes:
- for you, an annual summary statement showing the elements concerning compensation, as well as the details on the contributions due the previous year, sorted by type, in order to facilitate end-of-year posting of accounting entries;
- for your employee, a tax certificate. This document provides your employee with the total amount of wages collected for the previous year within the framework of the TFE.
