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Tax Audit

End-to-end support for French tax audits (field audits, desk audits, DVNI)

Document readiness, compliance review and defence strategy

Responses to reassessment notices and negotiated outcomes

Handling technical reviews and committees during the audit process

Focus on VAT, transfer pricing and cross-border risk areas

Pragmatic support for executives and companies through resolution

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.

Should disagreement persist or reassessments be notified, our tax dispute resolution practice provides continuity from audit defense through administrative proceedings.

In tax audits, anticipation determines the outcome.

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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.

Facing a tax audit ? Let our professionals guide your response.

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