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I have just received an email today from my English-qualified, French residing accountant, that he has just been ordered by the 'Ordre des Experts Comptables' (OEC - the professional organization of Chartered Accountants in France), to stop practising accountancy in France. He's a small husband and wife business and can't afford to fight the case legally, so he's shutting down.
When he registered to do accountancy in France (in 2009), the EU had just passed a law saying that foreign qualifications within the EU must be accepted by all the countries that were part of the union. Now that the UK are leaving, the OEC have declared that he cannot continue to practise accountancy in France, and have threatened to prosecute him if he doesn't stop immediately.
So I've lost my accountant, and my accountant and his wife have lost their livelihood. Thanks again Dave, Nigel, Boris, etc.