Deloitte LATAM Regional Profile (Indirect Tax)

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Deloitte LATAM Regional Profile (Indirect Tax)

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Deloitte LATAM Regional Profile (Indirect Tax)

Paseo de la Reforma 505, Piso 28

Colonia Cuauhtémoc

Ciudad de México, 06500

México

Phone: +52 55 5080 6000

Email: cmontanohernandez@deloittemx.com

Twitter: @DeloitteMéxico

Website: deloitte.com/mx

Offices: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, México, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay, and with operations in Ecuador, El salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama

Number of professionals: 90 professionals

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (“DTTL”) network of member firms in the Americas region has approximately 650 global trade and indirect tax professionals, located in approximately 240 offices in all major markets of the region. These professionals provide indirect tax and global trade compliance, advisory, and technology enablement services to many Fortune Global 500® companies seeking to manage and enhance their global indirect tax and global trade positions. The ability of these Deloitte professionals to work with the organization’s consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory professionals within the Americas region helps clients navigate the tax implications of their broad business challenges with confidence.

Deloitte’s S-LATAM region professionals help clients meet indirect tax obligations, whether relating to complex business transformation models, audits and controversy, or process and technology needs.

Among Deloitte’s main services are compliance, advisory and consulting, and foreign trade governmental procedures.

Deloitte assists with foreign trade department transformations, provides strategic advice during business transformation or re-localization, and advice on free trade agreements qualification and controversy procedures, foreign trade process and procedures gap analysis, and supports clients through governmental auditing procedures.

Deloitte’s indirect tax practice in the region supports clients in navigating a challenging and highly regulated environment, and in managing potential risks.

Deloitte has 90 specialized professionals in indirect taxes, providing significant skills and quality standards to clients in the region.

Collaborating across the region provides our clients with confidence that they can expect the same level of service regardless of jurisdiction. Our cross-border connections provide clients with organized and coordinated solutions for multi-country projects within the Spanish-Latin America region.

In the last five years, Deloitte’s indirect tax practice has experienced significant growth of almost 400% and added approximately 12 partners in the Spanish-Latin America region.

Deloitte is committed to technological evolution in our business. We are currently investing significantly in generating the necessary tools to strengthen internal capabilities, as well as to develop technology solutions for our clients.

Our main technological projects are related to analytics, compliance automation, and solutions for trade operations.

Deloitte’s regional network is part of a global multidisciplinary network.


Our key service offerings

  • Support during customs audit procedures

  • Analysis and management of operating models

  • Process review, documentation, and foreign trade manual creation

  • Origin qualification analysis (imports and exports)

  • Customs value evaluations and questioning through “reason to doubt” by customs authorities

  • Application of import taxes exemptions and special zones treatment

  • Technical customs advice on controversy procedures

  • Evaluation of security processes and obligations for Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status

  • Compliance monitoring services

Recent wins

Deloitte assisted a major automotive company in analyzing the re-design of the company’s supply chain and the foreign trade approach needed to obtain the benefits of a special manufacturing regime which contains reductions in customs duties. Through our work, savings of approximately 25% of the company’s costs were identified, turning the business into a highly profitable one. Profits may otherwise have been very limited, reducing market competitiveness.

Deloitte assisted an alcoholic beverage manufacturing group in restructuring its business model to manage the group’s indirect tax on its foreign trade operations. The group needed this internal business transformation to qualify for available programs and authorizations. The restructure resulted in savings of more than 55% for the group’s purchasing operations.

Awards

In August 2022,

  • Deloitte in the Americas region won ITR’s Indirect Tax Firm of the Year, Tax Compliance and Reporting Firm of the Year, Tax Innovator of the Year, Tax Technology Firm of the Year, Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year and North America Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year awards

  • Deloitte LATAM won ITR’s Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year award

  • Deloitte S-LATAM won ITR’s Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year awards for Argentina, Central America, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It also had four Indirect Tax leaders listed in ITR’s 2023 World Tax guide from Colombia and Mexico

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