According to a legal source, as part of a tax fraud investigation, French and Dutch officials raided Netflix's Paris and Amsterdam headquarters on Tuesday.
According to the source, specialized financial investigators are searching "various locations" in France in connection with allegations of "covering up serious tax fraud and off-the-books work." The investigation was initiated in November 2022.
Additionally, a group of French and Dutch officials searched Netflix's Amsterdam headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
According to the source, "Dutch and French authorities have been working together on this criminal case for many months."
The European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) stated that it was "supporting the investigations," which included Tuesday's searches, while Dutch prosecutors acknowledged the searches "in the context of a French legal assistance request."
In France, Netflix is being investigated for its 2019–2020–2021 tax returns. Netflix asserted that it complies with tax laws in every country where it operates after the probes were made public in a media article last year.
According to a claim by the French publication La Lettre A, Netflix's French business was set up until 2021 so that all users would sign up with a Dutch company, "minimizing its tax bill."
During 2019 and 2020, when it had about seven million French users, it paid less than one million euros ($1.1 million at today's rates) in taxes to Paris.
Authorities are also investigating to ascertain whether Netflix kept up illegal tactics to reduce its stated profits and consequently its tax burden, La Lettre A noted.
In 2021 and 2022, the French subsidiary's operating margins were significantly lower than those of the US parent company.
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The GSB Hub published this content on 30 Nov,2025.