Natural persons carrying on business in France or owning property there, without having their tax domicile there, as well as the persons mentioned in 2 of the article 4 B, may be invited by the tax department to designate, within ninety days of receipt of this request, a representative in France authorised to receive communications relating to the assessment, collection and litigation of the tax.
However, the obligation to appoint a tax representative does not apply to persons whose tax domicile is in another Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area that has concluded an administrative assistance agreement with France to combat tax fraud and evasion and a mutual assistance agreement on tax collection, or to the persons mentioned in 2 of the same Article 4 B who perform their duties or are entrusted with a mission in one of these States.