{"id":1065,"date":"2025-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service-societe.preprodwi.fr\/economic-substance-why-your-company-must-prove-genuine-activity\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:00:04","slug":"economic-substance-why-your-company-must-prove-genuine-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service-societe.preprodwi.fr\/en\/economic-substance-why-your-company-must-prove-genuine-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic substance: why your company must prove genuine activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/service-societe.preprodwi.fr\/en\/why-open-a-company-abroad\/\">company abroad<\/a> is no longer enough to be credible. Banks, tax authorities, and even your business partners now want tangible proof that your structure carries out real activity. This is what is known as economic substance.  <\/p>\n<p>Without it, a foreign company may be refused by a bank, blocked by payment providers such as Stripe or PayPal, or reclassified by the tax authorities of the director\u2019s country of <a href=\"https:\/\/service-societe.preprodwi.fr\/en\/tax-residence-how-is-it-defined-and-why-is-it-crucial\/\">tax residence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a company abroad is no longer enough to be credible. Banks, tax authorities, and even your business partners now want tangible proof that your structure carries out real activity. This is what is known as economic substance. 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