Corporate Taxation & Operations – Customs Law

Anticipate, optimize, defend.

Axipiter advises companies, executives, funds and investors on structuring, optimizing and defending their tax and customs operations, in France and internationally.

Our approach combines technical expertise, anticipation and understanding of the economic issues of transactions.

Corporate and group taxation

Indirect taxation (VAT, payroll tax)

Customs and international trade regulations

Tax and customs audits and litigation

Tax structuring of operations

Transaction optimization

Tax support for M&A transactions, restructurings and financing, with close coordination between tax, corporate and finance.

M&A operations

  • Acquisitions, disposals
  • LBO, MBO, OBO
  • Mergers, partial asset contributions
  • Management packages

Group optimization

  • Tax consolidation
  • Carried forward losses
  • Cash pooling

Transfer pricing

  • Transfer pricing
  • Advance pricing agreements (APA)
  • Local documentation / master file
Indirect taxation & energy

VAT, indirect taxation, and energy & environmental taxation

Domestic VAT (including real estate VAT), intra-EU and international VAT

Taxation of the e-commerce sector (IOSS / OSS regimes)

Excise duties, energy and environmental taxation

Tax IT: flow reviews, reliable audit trails, EPR configurations, rule engines, and invoice modelling

Customs law & international trade

Customs and international trade regulations

Customs Law

  • Securing customs compliance (classification, customs value, origin and “made in”)
  • Structuring cross-border flows (Incoterms©, customs procedures, special customs regimes)
  • Customs risk management (training and audits)

International Trade Strategy

  • Anti-dumping regulations
  • Trade agreements
  • Product regulations (dual-use goods, plant protection products, etc.)

Customs Audits and Litigation Support

  • Assistance during customs audits
  • Customs litigation (civil and criminal)
Tax and customs litigation

Assistance & defense

Audit assistance

Assistance during audits, negotiations with authorities, judicial appeals

Defense & appeals

Assistance before administrative, civil and criminal courts

Integrated approach

Axipiter offers an integrated approach combining tax, corporate and financial law to secure the performance and compliance of companies across all their economic flows.

Department Leaders

Your dedicated team

Secure your tax operations

Our experts support you in structuring, optimizing and defending your tax and customs operations.