Moving a business overseas

[Brown and Boris]

This occurred to me while watching Amanda Lamb jiggle about the TV screen;

If you moved a small business from say trading only England to trade only France, are there any rules on what you have to do before you go except pay up your CT and VAT? Does Companies House contact their French equivilant to tell them you are setting up. Do you have to close the company and distribute the capital to share holders? Will banks only transfer money to your new French acount or if closed in the UK, you wrote a cheque emptying the company accounts when you moved, didn't register in France who would know?

Just a thought, not that I would do such a thing.