Indirect tax and excise consulting in Paris and Lyon

ADVENIAT Avocats assists its clients with all issues relating to the sale and possession of alcoholic beverages, including advice, inspections and litigation.

  • Duties on alcohol, alcoholic beverages and tobacco 
  • Formalities relating to the possession and circulation of alcoholic beverages 
  • Assistance during inspections (determination of a litigation strategy, assistance during hearings/open hearings, assistance during the right to visit suspensive tax warehouses, drafting of observations to the preliminary tax notice/investigation result notice)
  • Risk and regulatory compliance audits 
  • Specific duty on beers - "specific taxation of small independent breweries".
  • Advice, pre-litigation and litigation in the field of premix tax
  • Advice and litigation for authorised warehousekeepers/registered consignees 
  • Support for the benefit of the right to error
  • Assistance and support in contesting the debt (contesting collection notices/proposals for rectification, setting up guarantees, negotiations and setting up payment plans)
Indirect taxes

Indirect taxes

The firm assists and defends clients active in the manufacture/holding/marketing/import/export of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages: distilleries, brewers, small independent breweries, winegrowers, food wholesalers, pharmaceutical laboratories.

The firm acts at the audit stage, in pre-litigation, and before the courts for assessment and collection disputes, as well as defending companies and executives before the criminal courts.