Anyone else out there doing Herbalife?

Banking & Financial Tax & Social charges
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I am hoping that someone can help me. I have just signed up to become an independent distributor for Herbalife in France and need to register with the government.


Herbalife advised that the form P0i should be filled in and sent to my local tax office. Having spent a certain amount of time with an advisor from said office yesterday, I have been informed that the form P0i no longer exists and that they don't now whether I should be contacting the Chambre de Commerce or the Greffe du Tribunal.


I will sort that out later but I am worried about cotisations and what I am expected to pay out and more importantly when.


I don't yet have a client base, although there is interest in the product, and therefore, I don't have any income from the product as yet.


Des anyone knw which route I should be going down? The tax office suggested micro entreprise and no TVA. I don't want to make a bad choice and end up struggling to pay my charges and cotisations!!


Thank you in advance for any assistance that you can give me :)

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Thanks Carol. I have been using Herbalife myself since 2009. I am well aware of the company structure as my friend, who was my distributor and is now my sponsor, has been working with them for some time. I'm not in it to make money and I am not going to go into the why's and wherefore's in this discussion. I really wanted to know the best fiscal regime to put it into so that I covered my back with the Finances Publiques...I have since found out the best way forward elsewhere but thank you for taking the time to comment and warn me. People who are not aware of the company structure could easily get caught out!!

Namaste :)