International Tax Review recognizes Garrigues as Firm of the Year in Transfer Pricing and Indirect Tax
Besides being shortlisted for best firm of the year in all existing categories, Garrigues has been doubly recognized as Firm of the Year in Spain in the categories of Transfer Pricing and Indirect Tax.Portugal: PTA has decided that Advance Pricing Agreements are the suitable mechanism to determine the transfer pricing method and the arm's lengh pricing, under intragroup service agreements
The Portuguese Tax Authorities (PTA) decided, in the context of a Binding Information Request (PIV) –Case no. 22442–, that this is not the appropriated approach for determining the transfer pricing method nor the arm’s length pricing between related parties under an intragroup service agreement. Instead, PTA considered that entering into an Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) is the suitable mechanism for these cases.Portugal: Temporary solidarity contributions on the energy and food distribution sectors
The forms for reporting the temporary solidarity contributions (CST) on the energy sector (Model 59) and the food distribution sector (Model 60) and the respective filling instructions, were approved by Ministerial Order no. 281/2023, of 13 September.Ignacio Campino joins Garrigues as a partner in the Tax Department in Chile
Garrigues has brought onboard the lawyer Ignacio Campino at its Santiago de Chile office as a partner in the Tax Department. Ignacio Campino has nearly 20 years’ experience advising Chilean and international enterprises on tax and asset-related matters.2023 does not want to be a fiscal outlier for Portugal
The competitiveness of the tax system, its simplification, the ongoing study of policy solutions, the stability of legal rulings and their interpretation in line with the objective underlying their creation, in particular in the case of tax incentives, has not been a priority and, unfortunately, 2023 has not brought (and will not bring) anything new to this area.Portugal: Approved the withholding tax rates applicable in the second semester of 2023
The withholding tax rates applicable to employment income (category A) and pensions (category H), obtained by the resident taxpayers in mainland Portugal, during the second semester of 2023, were approved by Order no. 4930/2023, of 26 April.