Benjamin Pik
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Expand CPA
Paris, France
Expert-comptable · Commissaire aux comptes · US CPAAbout Benjamin
Benjamin Pik is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Expand CPA, an international accounting firm with offices in Paris and Tel Aviv, specialising in foreign businesses and expatriates in France.
He is dual-qualified: a French expert-comptable and commissaire aux comptes, and a US Certified Public Accountant. That combination is what his work turns on. Over the years he has advised entrepreneurs, investors and international groups on tax and financial questions between France and the United States, working mainly in complex Franco-American situations where the two systems interact.
His practice covers Franco-American taxation for US persons resident in France, US tax compliance (Forms 1040, 1040-NR, 5471, 5472, FBAR and FATCA reporting), supervision of French tax obligations (income tax, corporate tax and VAT), cross-border structuring through vehicles such as LLCs, SAS, SASU, SCI and holding companies, and global mobility for executives and families relocating.
He is also a Certifying Acceptance Agent authorised by the IRS, which allows him to certify identity documents for ITIN applications — the route non-US spouses and dependents of Americans in France have to take.
He holds the French Diplôme d'Expertise Comptable and studied at Université Paris-Dauphine and the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University.
Qualifications
- Expert-comptable (French chartered accountant), inscribed on the Tableau de l'Ordre des experts-comptables
- Commissaire aux comptes (French statutory auditor), CRCC de Paris, inscribed 2020
- US Certified Public Accountant, Montana Board of Public Accountants, licence PAC-CPAP-LIC-19776, active since 2015
- Certifying Acceptance Agent authorised by the IRS
- Diplôme d'Expertise Comptable
- Université Paris-Dauphine, and John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Regulatory status
Benjamin Pik is listed as an expert-comptable at Expand CPA Group on the public directory of the Ordre des experts-comptables, the French body regulating the profession. He is also a commissaire aux comptes (statutory auditor) through his own practice PIK CONSULTING, CNCC identifier 4100090896, attached to the CRCC de Paris since 2020 and entered on the statutory list held by the Haute Autorité de l'Audit. In the United States he holds an active Certified Public Accountant permit issued by the Montana Board of Public Accountants, licence PAC-CPAP-LIC-19776, obtained by examination in 2015, with no disciplinary action reported; verify at cpaverify.org. He is additionally a Certifying Acceptance Agent authorised by the IRS. PIK CONSULTING: SIREN 882 657 158, 7 rue Théodule Ribot, 75017 Paris.
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