French VAT audit and tax-authority support
A French VAT check can ask for invoices, ledgers, import documents, marketplace exports and an explanation of your VAT treatment. The quality of the evidence matters as much as the amount.
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- Scoped per case, from a fixed starting fee
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Prices exclude VAT.
Get a quoteWho it concerns
- Sellers contacted by the French tax authority.
- Businesses with VAT credits, refunds or an irregular filing history.
- Non-EU sellers we represent for French VAT.
- Sellers asked to justify imports, stock movements or VAT rates.
- Price
- From €899
- Scope
- VAT & fiscal
- Firm
- SAS, Bordeaux · SIREN 920 400 462
- Last reviewed
- 2 August 2026
Where French VAT rules require a fiscal representative, that representative must be accredited and established in France.
How we help
We review the request, gather the evidence and prepare clear responses. Where we are your fiscal representative, we coordinate the reply and keep the audit trail in VAT EPR EXPERT FRANCE.
What's included
- Review of the tax-authority request
- Document checklist and evidence collection
- VAT return and transaction reconciliation
- Draft responses to the DGFiP
- Corrective filings where needed
- Audit file stored in VAT EPR EXPERT FRANCE
A controlled path from review to evidence
Read the request and its deadline
Establish whether this is a contrôle sur pièces, an examen de comptabilité run from the office or an on-site vérification de comptabilité, because each carries its own timetable and guarantees.
Assemble the evidence
Collect the accounting file, the transaction exports and the invoice and import documents behind every line the request touches.
Reconcile before answering
Tie the filed CA3 figures back to the source data so the reply explains the differences rather than restating the return.
Reply and settle the position
Send a documented response, file corrective returns where the review shows them, and retain the full audit trail.
Documents and source data
- The avis de vérification or the written request from the tax office
- Fichier des écritures comptables for the periods under review
- Sales, refund and settlement exports by marketplace and channel
- Purchase invoices and customs evidence supporting deducted VAT
- Filed CA3 returns, tax-account statements and any refund claims
Example: a tax investigation opened on a marketplace seller
The notice asks for the accounting file within fifteen days and the review then runs from the tax office on that file, without an inspector visiting. Marketplace reports, import evidence and the CA3 figures have to agree before the reply goes out, because the gap between them is precisely what will be questioned.
Official sources
Use these primary sources to confirm the current rule and authority process for your facts.
Published Last reviewed
- BOFiP: contrôle sur pièces, examen de comptabilité and vérification de comptabilité
- French tax authority: charter of rights and obligations of the audited taxpayer
- Book of tax procedures: the administration's right of control (articles L. 10 to L. 80 E)
- French tax authority: VAT for foreign businesses
- French tax authority: foreign business VAT scenarios
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