Tax raid

The tax administration may conduct a tax raid on the premises of any company. Specifically, inspectors enter into your premise, interview your employees and can seize documents.

Last year, more than 200 tax raids took place in France (companies facing a tax raid have to deal with a financial and human challenge as well as a risk for their image).

It is essential to prepare yourself by putting in place a crisis management protocol to respond and cooperate in the best way with the French tax authorities and police inspectors.

Before any tax raid, BDO offers to train your employees who are likely to intervene during the tax raid in order to ensure its smooth running.

In the course of a tax raid, BDO stands at your side on the day of the tax raid to ensure that your rights are respected and to assist you in setting up your internal procedures:

  • Implementation of key reflexes during the first hour of the tax raid
  • Control of compliance with procedural rules (possible identification of grounds for invalidity)
  • Filtering the questions asked by the tax inspectors
  • Assistance in setting up an internal and external communication strategy

After the tax raid, The BDO team stays with you to keep track of the tax raid and provide you with defense advice:

  • Report of investigation operations
  • Analysis of documents examined or seized
  • Defense strategy / challenge of the tax raid procedure
  • Litigation against the tax raid legal order
  • Preparation to tax audit