Deloitte
Americas
The Deloitte network of member firms in the Americas leverages a combination of legal, business tax, and compliance knowledge to provide businesses with a cohesive perspective, enabling companies to make informed business decisions at any stage of the tax controversy cycle. In the Americas, Deloitte’s Tax Controversy teams consists of numerous professionals in multiple locations across the network of member firms.
The Deloitte network has professional services teams across the globe to provide services locally, while coordinating engagements regionally or globally from a central location. We also draw on the capabilities and strengths of Deloitte’s other businesses—Audit & Assurance, Consulting, and Risk & Financial Advisory—to provide broad-scale, tax-aligned business insights.
Our Tax Controversy professionals in the Americas provide assistance spanning the various stages of federal, state, and local examinations—from dispute mitigation/planning to issue resolution and post-exam improvements. Through decades of working with clients on a broad range of tax issues, Deloitte firms in the Americas have fine-tuned their technology, analytical procedures, and planning methodologies to offer a broad-based, scalable solution that can be tailored to the specific circumstances of each client and each tax controversy. Some of our cross-border Tax Controversy capabilities including the following services:
• Re-controversy audit readiness assessments including:
o Risk assessments
o Documentation readiness and retention preparation, and
o Mock audits
• Examinations
• Litigation, appeals, and settlement
• Proactive resolution services
• Transfer pricing
• Tax controversy software tools and support
Innovation is a key component of Deloitte’s Tax Controversy offerings across the Americas region. Deloitte’s network of firms is investing heavily in tax technology and analytics capabilities and developing solutions to help clients mitigate the potential for, manage, and learn from the various types of tax disputes – which in turn, translates to value for our clients. Collaboration allows Deloitte firms to develop tax technology solutions that address specific and complex tax requirements in the Americas region. Deloitte firms in the Americas can provide innovative tax controversy software tools and support including:
• Tax Controversy Manager: Proprietary web-based tool for managing examination-related data and reporting.
• Interest Analyzer: Service to verify the accuracy of complex federal and state tax agency interest calculations.
• Data Management: Assistance with integrating systems to capture, retain, process, and analyze information, and respond quickly to high-volume information requests. Assistance with planning for tax data retention related to ERP systems implementation.
Awards:
2019 International Tax Review (ITR) Americas Tax:
• Regional Awards:
o Americas Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year (third consecutive year)
o Americas Tax Technology Firm of the Year (second consecutive year)
• National Transfer Pricing Firms of the Year: Deloitte Argentina, Deloitte Peru, Deloitte Mexico
• Other Transfer Pricing Firms of the Year: North America, Central America
2020 ITR World Tax & World Transfer Pricing:
• World Tax: 9 jurisdictions ranked tier 1 (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, United States) and 9 jurisdictions ranked tier 2 (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela) in various practice Tax practice areas.
• World Transfer Pricing: 9 jurisdictions ranked tier 1 (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, United States, Venezuela) or tier 2 (Uruguay)
Recognized Leaders:
Euromoney and International Tax Review – Experts/Leaders guides: Following leaders across the region were recognized for their individual abilities, as well as for their in-depth capabilities, experience, and specialist knowledge:
o 52 leaders in Euromoney’s 2020 Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers
o 46 leaders in ITR’s 2020 Tax Controversy Leaders Guide
o 19 leaders in ITR’s 2020 Indirect Tax Leaders Guide
o 80 leaders in ITR’s 2020 Women in Tax Leaders Guide
o 50 leaders in Euromoney’s 2018 Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers
o Douglas Lopes, Deloitte Brazil was honored as Americas Indirect Tax Practice Leader of the Year in 2019 Americas Tax Awards.
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