Taxation of business acquisitions and real estate transactions.
FRELA provides guidance and advice in tax law to businesses and professionals to ensure the security and optimization of business acquisitions and real estate transactions.
Given the complexity of French legal and tax regulations, FRELA offers comprehensive tax services dedicated to your real estate and business acquisitions and sales in France.
We assist you in the process of identifying the acquisition structure.
FRELA conducts an audit of the target acquisition structure’s tax regime and helps you establish your tax regime. We assist you in implementing the depreciation policy and analyze the tax impact and VAT issues.
We anticipate future financial flows and simulate post-acquisition/cession taxation. In the case of family transfers, we have specific expertise in structuring transfers with appropriate tax planning (donations, contributions, establishment of holding companies, etc.).
Discover our legal services in taxation for businesses and professionals.
Analysis of VAT issues
Given the complexity of French legal and tax regulations, FRELA provides a comprehensive support service in analyzing VAT issues dedicated to your sales and transfers of real estate in France.
Entrust your merger/acquisition project to one of our appointed lawyers to receive experienced and knowledgeable advice in order to legally secure your transactions in France, as well as plan and optimize your taxation and VAT.
Identification of the acquisition structure
Entrust the tax identification of the acquisition structure of your project to competent and recognized lawyers specializing in acquisition law.
The typical forms of acquisition and ownership structures include: purchasing in one’s own name; joint ownership; establishing an REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust); purchasing through a commercial company; acquiring bare ownership; purchasing through cross-ownership arrangements; purchasing through life annuity; utilizing debt financing; implementing a transmission strategy.
Tax regime of the acquisition structure
Are you planning to purchase real estate or a business?
Entrust the audit and establishment of the tax regime for the acquisition structure of your project to competent and recognized lawyers specializing in acquisition law.
Understand and optimize the taxation of your acquisition structure.
Determination of depreciation policy and tax impact
Here are the main keys to determine the depreciation policy and its fiscal impact in these transactions:
- Determine the acquisition value
- Evaluate intangible assets
- Understand the tax rules regarding depreciation
- Establish a depreciation plan
- Determine depreciation rates
- Understand the fiscal impact of depreciation
- Determine depreciation costs
- Establish a tax depreciation plan
- Understand the depreciation rules for assets acquired during the fiscal year.
Contact us and present your project of acquisition, merger, or sale of businesses or real estate.