Law firm specializing in tax strategy
Edouard Pruvost is dedicated exclusively to the tax strategy consulting.
It supports individuals, executives, investors, businesses and holders of significant assets in the design of tax strategies for Legally reduce the tax burden, preserve the value of transactions and improve the net result of property or economic decisions.
The firm's intervention is not only to determine which tax rule applies. It consists of analysing the various legally available options, measuring their consequences and identifying the most efficient structuring in relation to the client's objectives.
Each file is subject to a tailor-made analysis.
Taxation as a decision-making parameter
Acquisition, disposal, transmission, reorganization, residence change or international investment can produce very different tax results depending on their structure, timing and vehicles.
In high-risk cases, a few upstream decisions can significantly change the net value ultimately retained.
The firm intervenes precisely at this stage: before choices become irreversible.
Its expertise consists of comparing scenarios, identifying the applicable favourable arrangements and building a strategy consistent with the real economy of the project.
High-level expertise in tax strategy
Business and management tax strategy
Organization of groups, holdings, remuneration of the manager, taxation of transfers, transfer of business, investments, reorganizations and optimisation of corporate tax.
Learning about business taxation
Heritage tax strategy
Structure of assets, methods of holding, IFI, transmission, SCI, disposals of assets and arbitrations between immediate taxation and long-term objectives.
Real estate tax strategy
Acquisition, holding, financing, operation, resale, SCI, real estate holdings, property dealers and real estate VAT.
The firm compares the different architectures in order to identify those that make it possible to achieve the best net result over the entire investment cycle.
Discovering real estate taxation
International tax strategy
Tax residence, expatriation, cross-border investment, foreign income, holding of international assets, tax treaties, international arrangements and transactions involving several jurisdictions.
The firm intervenes on files concerning countries of the world and carries out custom research and analysis for each situation.
Discovering international taxation
Transfer prices and international groups
Analysis of intragroup flows, distribution of value, functions and risks, documentation, structure of remuneration and optimization of the international tax organization of the groups.
Discover the expertise in transfer pricing
VAT and taxation of flows
Real estate, international and intra-Community VAT, structure of operations and analysis of situations in which the tax can directly affect the cost or profitability of a project.
Customized Tax Strategies
There is no effective tax solution, regardless of the context in which it operates.
One holding can be particularly effective in one situation and useless in another. An ICS at the IS can improve taxation during detention while at the same time producing a higher cost on exit. An expatriation may change some operations positively while affecting others. An attractive international structure in a jurisdiction may be neutralized in a second.
This is why the firm favours an approach based on comparative analysis of scenarios.
Holding structure, taxation of flows, financing, timing, residence, international conventions, exit taxation and heritage objectives are discussed together to identify solutions that have the best balance between fiscal performance and legal strength.
Net-value-oriented expertise
The objective of a tax strategy is not to multiply structures.
It is to enable the client to achieve his economic or heritage objective by maintaining the maximum legally possible value after tax.
This approach leads the firm to intervene mainly in situations where taxation can have a significant impact on:
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the profitability of an investment;
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the net value of an assignment;
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Reinvestment capacity;
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cash flow;
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the transmission of an asset or an undertaking;
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the organisation of international mobility;
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or the overall tax performance of a group.
French and international expertise
The firm deals with both purely French issues and situations involving several jurisdictions.
France–United States, France–Switzerland, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa or other jurisdictions: the analysis is not based on pre-established patterns.
For each international case, the firm examines the relevant local rules, their articulation with French law, the applicable tax treaties and the consequences of the scheme envisaged in each of the relevant jurisdictions.
Making taxation a lever of performance
The most important tax decisions are often those to be made before Operation.
Before an acquisition.
Before an assignment.
Before a transmission.
Before an expatriation.
Before restructuring.
Before setting up an international holding or architecture.
Intervention sufficiently upstream allows several options to be retained, their consequences to be compared, and to avoid that a structure that has become irreversible then limits the possibilities of optimisation.
Master Edouard Pruvost specializes in tax strategy advice. The firm supports clients seeking high-level tax expertise, in-depth analysis of their situation and tailor-made structuring solutions. To have your project analysed and to benefit from tax strategy advice, contact the firm.
