Bertrand Jeannin

Deloitte Société d'Avocats • Indirect Tax (VAT) | Customs & Global Trade

Bertrand Jeannin, Partner, supplies strategic and technical advice to French and foreign multinational groups in all aspects of their VAT and customs policies. He regularly assists his clients in the frame of the setting up of VAT treatments and best practices with the aim to manage and reduce the cash and cash flow costs deriving from VAT & customs.,Bertrand also assists the finance and tax managers as to the the management of the interactions between indirect tax and the other departments within a company (supply chain, sales department, IT services; etc.). He regularly assists companies in the field of tax audits and dispute resolution matters.

He has also a long-standing expertise in private equity and corporate M&A transactions. He has been regularly involved on the VAT aspects of a large number of due diligences, as well as on all VAT aspects deriving from the structuring of acquisitions.

Bertrand has been the author of numerous notes and comments published in the tax reviews,  in the business sector reviews or on the blog of Deloitte Société d’Avocats. He has been identified each year since 2015 by the US review Best Lawyers as a “Best lawyer” in the field of French tax

Bertrand started his career within Andersen before joining Deloitte Société d’Avocats in 2002.

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Deloitte Société d'Avocats
Indirect Tax (VAT) | Customs & Global Trade

Bertrand Jeannin, Partner, supplies strategic and technical advice to French and foreign multinational groups in all aspects of their VAT and customs policies. He regularly assists his clients in the frame of the setting up of VAT treatments and best practices with the aim to manage and reduce the cash and cash flow costs deriving from VAT & customs.,Bertrand also assists the finance and tax managers as to the the management of the interactions between indirect tax and the other departments within a company (supply chain, sales department, IT services; etc.). He regularly assists companies in the field of tax audits and dispute resolution matters.

He has also a long-standing expertise in private equity and corporate M&A transactions. He has been regularly involved on the VAT aspects of a large number of due diligences, as well as on all VAT aspects deriving from the structuring of acquisitions.

Bertrand has been the author of numerous notes and comments published in the tax reviews,  in the business sector reviews or on the blog of Deloitte Société d’Avocats. He has been identified each year since 2015 by the US review Best Lawyers as a “Best lawyer” in the field of French tax

Bertrand started his career within Andersen before joining Deloitte Société d’Avocats in 2002.

France

“No shows”: VAT taxation in the case of clients no-show without prior cancellation of their reservation

By Bertrand Jeannin, Delphine Nicault, Gökhan Aktas /

In two decisions dated October 9, 2024 (CE no. 472257, Société Hôtelière Paris Eiffel Suffren and CE no. 489947, Société AccorInvest) rendered in the hotel industry, the French Administrative Suprême

Circular of 20 April 2017, concerning the application of late interests in case of late payment of some customs receivables

By Michel Guichard, Odile Courjon, Bertrand Jeannin, William Stemmer, Nicolas Kazandjian, Vanessa Irigoyen, Anne Gerometta, Marie Manuelli, Delphine Nicault, Mélanie Michenot /

This article was first published in our monthly newsletter Indirect Tax News. This newsletter sums up the main news in indirect tax and customs. Since the 2016 Amending Finance Law,