TAX PORTUGAL - Despacho de abogados Gómez-Acebo y Pombo

Practice area

Tax Portugal

“Gómez-Acebo & Pombo provides solutions according to the needs of the clients.”

Chambers & Partners Europe

Our experts in tax law provide specialist advice both on tax law and accounting law.

Cross-sectoral services

Advice and defence before the Inspectorate in investigation proceedings and verification of the tax situation of taxpayers.
Advice and defence before the Tax Collection bodies in proceedings for the collection of tax debts.
Legal advice on and counsel in administrative appeals, tax appeals and applications for judicial review to any court (including the CJEU).
Proceedings to claim an authority’s liability for tax-related actions that have harmed taxpayers.

Preparation of tax due diligence reports from both a seller’s and a buyer’s point of view.
Design and implementation of the best tax structure for every transaction.
Advice on all tax aspects of clients’ legal contracts.
Client support in all tax aspects after the execution of the transaction: implementation, restructuring, management of tax compensation, etc.
Tax advice on the implementation of incentives to executives of target companies

We have a team of professionals specialising in property taxation who provide tax advice on all types of real property transactions (e.g., sale and purchase of companies and real property assets, turnkey contracts, leases, financing, restructurings).
We have a team dedicated to the analysis of the IIVTNU for transfers of large real property portfolios.

Specialisation Groups

Tax advice on the day-to-day of national groups and on the tax planning of corporate restructurings.
Advice on meeting the requirements to access tax benefits available to family businesses (the Inheritance and Gift Tax and the Wealth Tax).
General advice to large estates on their reorganisation for tax optimisation purposes.
Advice to individuals and families who transfer their tax domicile to Spain and non-expatriates, and on compliance with their tax obligations.

We advise our foreign clients on international tax issues for their investments in Spain.
Accompaniment to our national clients in relation to the tax implications of their international transactions.
Extensive experience in the application and interpretation of Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements. In particular, with the adoption of the Multilateral Agreement.
Review of our clients’ international structures in the light of the new paradigm presented by the BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) plan.
Solid experience in tax proceedings applying European Union legislation and the impact of the CJEU case law.

Advice on a day-to-day basis to companies and other corporate entities.
Mergers, acquisitions and restructurings and their inclusion in tax schemes.
Tax aspects of operations (capital market transactions, financing operations, etc.)
Tax due diligences.

Advice on local taxes, with high specialisation in relation to the Urban Land Appreciation Tax (‘IIVTNU’), Business Activity Tax (‘IAE’), Constructions, Installations and Building Works Tax (‘ICIO’) and Property Tax (‘IBI’).
Assistance in local tax inspections.
Claims and appeals related to municipal bylaws and local taxation in general. In particular, we have a team specialised in the IIVTNU for large real property portfolios.
Review and study of cadastral values and presentations of values for IBI purposes.