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Practice areas

Below, our main though not exclusive areas of expertise and experience

Indirect taxation

Our skills

Custax & Legal’s expertise is to analyze, validate or challenge the indirect taxation treatment of that companies’ international flows of goods and services, and to propose and set up operational plans in accordance with regulations and optimization opportunities.

VAT on intra-community flows

  • Mapping of physical and documentary flows
  • Analysis of the VAT treatment of these flows
  • Study of possible alternatives and risks
  • Recommendation and description of operational processes
  • Review and drafting of contracts
  • Training

VAT on international flows

  • Mapping of physical and documentary flows
  • Audit of the VAT treatment of these flows
  • Analysis of VAT interactions with customs law
  • Study of possible alternatives and risks
  • Recommendation and description of operational processes
  • Review and drafting of contracts
  • Training

All VAT tax representation

  • Implications of taxable operations in France and the taxpayer situation of the non-resident entity
  • Implications of a simple VAT registration obligation reporting or administrative purposes
  • Implications of non-attributable VAT credit refund
  • Implications of the use of tax agents (intra EU)
  • Implementation – assistance in case of verification
  • Training

Energy taxation

  • Electricity taxation (assistance with audits, preparation or analysis of declarations, litigation procedures)
  • Coal taxation
  • Gas tax
  • Ad hoc tax representations
  • Training

Excise tax

  • Management of statutes and procedures, tax representation, preparation and filing of declarations
  • Alcohol tax
  • Taxation of petroleum and derived products
  • Tobacco tax
  • Training

Environmental taxation

  • TGAP
  • TEOM
  • VAT
  • Eco-contributions
  • Training

Selected experiences

  • Training in VAT on intra-community flows (“quick fixies”) for French International Chambers of Commerce
  • Establishment of a comprehensive strategy in eight Member States for regularizing VAT on distance sales
  • Analysis of multi-party chain transactions (triangular or with 4, 5 or 6 intervening entities)
  • Audit of EU VAT flows of a French group
  • Audit of a technical industrial manufacturing process, resulting in refunds of energy tax wrongly paid
  • Analysis of the VAT impact of the implementation of a special customs regime
  • In-house training for a Swiss multinational on energy taxation
  • Optimization of the management and payment of excise duties on alcohol for a large distribution group
  • Training of accounting and sales staff in DEB and intra-community VAT and import/export declaration processes
  • Optimization of remote sales management in nine Member States for an online sales platform

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