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Tax Audit

In the orchestration of laws, nuance sets the tone.

Tax audits are not merely procedural. They touch on structure, intent, and history. They require a response that is not just legal, but orchestrated — capable of aligning documentation, narratives, and substance under scrutiny.

What is tested is not only compliance, but logic. Narrative. Substance. A response cannot rely on documentation alone, it must align form and intent — legally, factually, and structurally.

The process itself is asymmetrical. Timelines accelerate. Stakes escalate. Silence can be misread, and too much detail misused. Tax audit management brings structure — through timing, articulation, and precise legal calibration.

Every inspection, from targeted review to full-scale examination, probes more than figures. It seeks coherence. When handled with foresight, a tax audit becomes less a threat than a test. One that a sound structure is meant to meet with coherence.

Illustrative Expertise

Audit Positioning

  • Development of high-integrity tax narratives and supporting files to secure complex positions under scrutiny
  • lignment of documentation with prior filings, designed proactively ahead of any audit trigger

Reassessments & Responses

  • LS2P: Management of contentious audits and tailored responses to proposed reassessments (corporate income tax, VAT, transfer pricing)
  • Previous mandate: Negotiated multi-million euro adjustments downwards with the DVNI and national audit directorate

Coordination with Tax Authorities

  • LS2P: On-the-ground representation during site investigations and in-depth accounting reviews
  • Previous engagement: Coordination of multi-jurisdictional audits (France and abroad) with direct liaison at Bercy level
100+ TAX AUDITS PER PARTNER

Steered over a hundred tax audits per partner in coordination with France's specialised brigades, notably those operating within the DVNI. Cumulative experience, before and since the foundation of LS2P Avocats.

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