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Nuno de Oliveira Garcia on the fantastic story of the TOS, two State Budgets and court decisions | Jornal de Negócios
5 of May, 2023
Jornal de Negócios reports on the opinion statements by Nuno de Oliveira Garcia, partner in charge of the tax area of Gómez-Acebo & Pombo in Portugal, in which he stresses that: “It all started with the need to create from scratch an infrastructure for the distribution of natural gas in Portugal. We are talking about various types of piping, technical boxes, tanks, among other equipment, all, or almost all, installed underground. In order to avoid public costs with such a task – costs that Portuguese municipalities could hardly afford – it fell to the distribution companies to pay for it”.
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