Second time as autoentrepreneur

CAN AN auto-entrepreneur who has closed his business sign up again, doing the same category of business, at a later date? I closed my auto-entrepreneur business on
December 31 to return to the UK, but it now looks as if I will be returning to France.
Can I pick up where I left off, or will I have to choose a different business set-up? J.P.

AN ADVISER for the auto-entrepreneur scheme said there must be a complete calendar
year, January to December, between leaving the scheme and starting again with the
same business type. This means you could not start again before January 2012.

However, you can start again as an auto-entrepreneur with a different activity type. This rule also does not stop you starting again under one of the traditional business
set-ups, the adviser said.