Realize Your International Expansion or Development Projects

In response to companies' desire to expand their activities in international markets, BDO France accountants are trusted partners to support French companies in their projects.

Our teams provide leaders with all their skills and knowledge to implement a tailor-made methodology on topics related to: deployment of formalities and contracts, financial monitoring and support, human resources organization, tax management, support for the establishment of subsidiaries in France and abroad, and advisory services.

To offer you the best quality of service and results, we work with our offices abroad, located in 164 countries, to monitor and coordinate your international projects. This network allows us to quickly mobilize multidisciplinary and multicultural skills to meet your specific needs.

BDO supports your internationalisation projects worldwide

Establishment of budget forecasts;
Assistance with legal, tax, and regulatory formalities;
Financing research and file preparation;
Support abroad when entering new markets;
Reception, advice, and assistance for foreign companies in France (formation, accounting, social, taxation, regulatory).

Through our partnerships, we particularly support your development in the United Kingdom through our collaboration with the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and in the United States through our partnership with Amcham.

Work with a Network of Experts to Succeed in Your International Development

BDO assists foreign companies or subsidiaries of foreign companies setting up in France. Simplify your formalities with the Administration. If you need a tax mandate or fiscal representation in France, we can help.

Are you a European Union company? We support you via BDO VAT DESK in completing your administrative and tax formalities with the French Administration.

Our experts intervene within the framework of a tax mandate.

If you are established outside the EU, you will need to accredit a representative subject established in France, called a fiscal representative, with the tax service, who undertakes to fulfill the formalities incumbent upon you and, in the case of taxable operations, to pay the tax on your behalf.

If you are established in the EU, you can request a tax agent to complete the declarative tax formalities on your behalf. The tax agent acts as an intermediary between you and the tax administration. Your procedures and obligations with the French tax administration will depend on the location of your company's establishment, your activity, and the flow of your goods or services.

Faced with legislative and administrative complexity, BDO proposes to facilitate your procedures and secure your operations with the tax administration within the framework of a tax mandate.

Within the framework of the tax mandate and not fiscal representation, we intervene at different stages:

When the analysis of your activity reveals an obligation to register for French VAT, BDO supports you as a tax agent and offers the following services:

Preparation and submission of a company registration application file in France with the French tax services;
Registration of the company with the tele-declaration services (and telepayment, if the company has a bank account in France (IBAN: FR xxx)) with the French tax administration;
Contact and communication with the French tax services on behalf of the company, designation as the correspondence address to receive any document or communication from the French tax administration.

Based on the information and accounting data you have previously provided, BDO intervenes within the framework of a tax mandate:

Preparation of the VAT declaration (monthly, quarterly, or seasonal regime);
Tele-declaration on behalf of the company after receiving your approval and telepayment (if applicable);
If the company cannot benefit from the telepayment service, sending all the information allowing you to make the payment (amount, deadline, references to use in case of transfer);
Preparation of VAT accounting entries;
Communication with the administration on behalf of the company in case of information requests.

Any company, whether a member of the EU or not, can recover French VAT on certain expenses incurred. To facilitate your procedures, BDO advises and supports you according to your profile within the framework of a tax mandate:

Your company is registered for French VAT, and your VAT declaration shows a French VAT credit:
- Preparation of the VAT credit refund request declaration;
- Tele-declaration on behalf of the company after receiving your approval;
- Preparation of VAT accounting entries;
- Communication with the administration on behalf of the company in case of information requests.
Your company is established in the European Union but is not registered for French VAT: The VAT credit refund request must be made on the tax administration website of the country of establishment. We connect you with our local BDO correspondents.
Your company is established outside the European Union but is not registered for French VAT: We connect you with a partner authorized to act as a fiscal representative.

Do you carry out shipments or acquisitions of goods to or from EU member states? Are you a French company providing services to companies established in other EU member states?

You may be required to make a declaration of goods exchanges (DEB) with customs or establish a "European services declaration" summarizing the operations carried out.

BDO supports you based on the information and accounting data provided in advance:

Preparation of the declaration;
Tele-declaration on behalf of the company with customs services after receiving your approval;
Communication with the customs administration on behalf of the company in case of information requests.

Our Other VAT DESK Services

We support foreign companies or subsidiaries of foreign companies setting up in France:

Assistance with establishment: choice of legal structure, accounting and tax organization;
Domiciliation;
Accounting assistance (management and/or review in French or foreign standards, reporting);
Tax assistance (management of local taxes, assistance with tax and customs administration controls, transfer pricing);
Social assistance: management of French payroll and human resources, monitoring the application of French social legislation.