Tax
Planning, compliance, DIAN inquiries and structuring of transactions.
We advise companies and their shareholders on tax planning, compliance and defense. We analyze the effect of business decisions on income tax, VAT, withholding tax, ICA (the municipal industry and commerce tax) and other local taxes before they are made, and we propose structures that the law allows and that withstand a review by DIAN (the tax authority).
We support corporate and investment transactions: purchases and sales of companies, reorganizations, dividend distributions, intercompany financing, foreign investment and the application of the double taxation treaties signed by Colombia.
We defend taxpayers in proceedings before DIAN and municipal tax administrations: responses to information requests, challenges to official assessments, administrative appeals and, when the dispute is not resolved at that stage, annulment lawsuits before the administrative courts.
What we do
- Tax planning for transactions, investments and business reorganizations.
- Tax structuring of mergers, spin-offs, share and asset purchases, and contributions to companies.
- Tax treatment of dividend distributions, intercompany financing and cross-border transactions.
- Transfer pricing: analysis of related-party transactions and compliance with documentation obligations.
- Application of double taxation treaties and withholding on payments abroad.
- Free trade zone regime, sector incentives and tax benefits currently in force.
- Responses to ordinary and special information requests, statements of charges and official assessments issued by DIAN.
- Administrative appeals (reconsideration) and annulment lawsuits before the administrative courts.
- Local taxes: ICA, signage tax, property tax and stamp taxes, in Medellín and other municipalities.
- Written opinions on the tax treatment of specific transactions.
Questions we answer
- Which taxes apply to the sale of my company if I sell the shares rather than the assets?
- How do I distribute profits to shareholders abroad with the lowest tax burden the law allows?
- What do I do if I receive a special information request from DIAN and the deadline to respond is short?
- Does my company comply with the transfer pricing regime for its transactions with the parent?
- Do I owe ICA in every municipality where I have customers or only where I have an office?
- Is it worth operating from a free trade zone?
Let's talk
Tell us the decision you have to make. We reply the same business day.
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