Same experience here in France. One of the trick we used was to overprice our salaries so we could reinvest those salaries in the company in order to have way m

Same experience here in France. One of the trick we used was to overprice our salaries so we could reinvest those salaries in the company in order to have way more runaway than initially planned. That's until a tax controller came to told us that our salaries were too big for that grant/tax reduction thing. They actually weren't that excessive so with the help of a lawyer, he fucked off. My heart missed a beat or two though.