Brazil removes Spanish international holding companies from the grey list of privileged tax regimes

January 05 2011

On December 2 2010 the Brazilian government granted the exclusion of Spanish holding companies (ETVEs) from its grey list of privileged tax regimes. Isabel Bertoletti, Fabíola Costa Girão and Henrique de Freitas Munia e Erbolato of Machado report on the run-up to the removal.

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