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VAT · Companies established in France
Foreign VAT
refund
Has your company incurred VAT in other European Union Member States? We prepare your refund claim and support you until it is completed.
Fees
From €500 excl. VAT
in proportion to the amounts recovered or the time spent
✓ Free quote · Reply within 48 hours
500€ excl. VAT
Minimum fee per claim
30Sept.
Filing deadline, the year following the payment of the VAT
2008/9/CE
Directive setting out the refund procedure
1portal
Single electronic procedure since 2010
Companies doing business abroad incur foreign VAT on their expenses. VAT recovery is the process of reclaiming this foreign VAT. The VAT incurred in other European Union Member States by taxable persons registered for VAT in France can, under certain conditions and within certain limits, be claimed from the tax authorities of the country concerned.
A special refund procedure
As these taxable persons have no link with the local tax authorities, since they are not established there and have carried out no taxable transactions there, a special refund procedure exists within the European Union, the terms of which are set by Directive 2008/9/EC of 12 February 2008.
In addition, the countries of the European Economic Area (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) as well as Switzerland have introduced a VAT refund procedure for companies based in the European Union.
How does the claim work?
Since 2010, a single electronic refund procedure has been in place within the European Union.
How we support you
With ILIADE’s support, we offer to:
- review the formalities and VAT recovery rules applicable to all your purchase invoices for goods and services
- and prepare the refund claim on your behalf.
Our fees are calculated in proportion to the amounts actually recovered by your company or according to the time spent.
We support you until your claim is completed.
Download Directive 2008/9/EC of the Council of 12 February 2008 laying down detailed rules for the refund of value added tax, provided for in Directive 2006/112/EC, to taxable persons not established in the Member State of refund but established in another Member State (PDF, in French).
Have you paid VAT abroad?
From €500 excl. VAT
in proportion to the amounts recovered or the time spent
- Free quote
- Reply within 48 hours
- Review of all your invoices
- Claim prepared for you
- Follow-up until the refund
How we work
Your file,
step by step.
Your invoices
You send us your purchase invoices that include foreign VAT.
Analysis
We check the formalities and the applicable recovery rules.
Claim
We prepare and file the claim through the electronic portal.
Follow-up
We support you until your claim is completed.
Have you incurred VAT outside France?
Let’s recover it
together.
Free, no-obligation quote · Reply within 48 hours.
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