A series of articles from KPMG looks at the complex challenges facing tax directors who want to re-imagine their operations and reshape their long-term strategies.
In an exclusive interview, Guillermo Michel, Deputy Director of the Deputy Directorate General of Technical and Institutional Coordination at La Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP), talks to Matthew Gilleard about recent and future compliance initiatives, the challenges the tax authority faces, inter-jurisdictional cooperation, and why it wants taxpayers to be successful in their economic activities.
Carlos Casanovas, Gustavo Scravaglieri, Sabrina Maiorano and Pablo Godoy of Ernst & Young explore Argentina’s foreign exchange restrictions and analyse their impact on transfer pricing.
During the recent and most severe global economic crisis in more than six decades, Brazil is proving to be a solid and strong economy and has been identified as one of the largest consumer markets in the world, as well as a major centre of opportunities for foreign investors, says Marienne Mendonça Shiota Coutinho, of KPMG.
Juan Pablo Navarrete and Manuel José Garcés of Carey y Cía explain that depending on whether it is through equity or debt, an investment in Chile has particular tax implications.
During the last year, Colombia has developed several tax policies, official interpretations and rulings, which have had particular influence in the international tax field. Carolina Rozo and Andrea Prieto, of prietocarrizosa explore these modifications, which seek to adapt Colombian legislation and its interpretation to international tax models.
In a series of articles coordinated by Moisés Curiel, Baker & McKenzie’s transfer pricing experts investigate transfer pricing regulations and developments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Uruguay.
Two recent events in the Mexican legal sphere have led to important implications for how legal provisions, including those relating to tax, should be interpreted and applied, say Nora Morales and Ramon Orendain of Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cía.
The hardest part of investing in real estate businesses in Mexico is ensuring cost efficiency while avoiding potential tax and operative contingencies, explains Alejo Muñoz Manzo of Muñoz Manzo y Ocampo.