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Afonso Arnaldo

Deloitte Portugal

Av. Eng. Duarte Pacheco, 7

1070-100 Lisbon

Portugal

Tel: +351 210 427528

Email: afarnaldo@deloitte.pt

Website: www.deloitte.pt

Afonso Arnaldo is a partner of the indirect tax group at Deloitte Portugal (the first indirect tax group formed in this country). He possesses a law background and 17 years of professional experience in indirect tax, both in Portugal and abroad.

He is responsible for coordinating tax consultancy projects for several entities concerning VAT, customs, and excise duties matters to assist clients in planning and structuring their operations to optimize of indirect taxes.

Afonso is also specialised, from an indirect tax perspective, in business model optimisation (BMO) services, offering insights about how multinational companies should integrate their operational and tax planning in a scalable and sustainable way to help business leaders make more effective decisions on an after-tax basis.

Cooperating with clients from every business sector, Afonso focuses in financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, distribution, transportation, healthcare, and public sector.

In 2014 Afonso was nominated by the Portuguese government as a member of the Portuguese commission formed to review the levy of green taxes.

Afonso also serves as a faculty member in several courses held in Portugal and abroad about taxation issues and has published several articles in newspapers, tax magazines and tax books.

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Eduardo Ferreira Gomes

Deloitte Portugal

Av. Eng. Duarte Pacheco, 7

1070-100 Lisbon

Portugal

Tel: +351 21 0427573

Email: edgomes@deloitte.pt

Website: www.deloitte.pt

Eduardo Ferreira Gomes is a Deloitte Portugal indirect tax associate partner.

He has 15 years of professional experience in indirect tax in Portugal, specialising in domestic and international VAT advisory services. His background is in business management.

Eduardo coordinates VAT consultancy and compliance projects, and helps clients plan and structure their operations to optimise indirect taxes. He is also responsible for the coordination of due diligence projects.

He works with clients in virtually all industry sectors but focuses more specifically on the healthcare and financial sectors, including private equity, real estate companies, banks and insurance companies.

Eduardo also specialises in business model optimisation (BMO) services, offering insights on integration of operational and tax planning in a scalable and sustainable way, to help business leaders of multinational companies make more effective decisions on an after-tax basis.

He also serves as a faculty member for many Portuguese courses on indirect taxation issues and has published several articles in newspapers and tax magazines.

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António Beja Neves

Deloitte Portugal

Av. Eng. Duarte Pacheco, 7

1070-100 Lisbon

Portugal

Tel: +351 21 0427595

Email: antneves@deloitte.pt

Website: www.deloitte.pt

António is a partner of Deloitte Portugal's indirect taxes group (the first indirect tax group created in this country). He possesses a business management and chartered accountant background as well as 34 years of professional experience in indirect tax, both in Portugal and abroad.

António started helping clients with VAT when it was introduced in Portugal in 1986. He founded and continues to head the Portuguese indirect tax practice at the firm.

António is also responsible for the coordination of tax consultancy projects for several entities concerning VAT, customs and excise duty matters, assisting clients in planning and structuring their operations to optimise indirect taxes. He is also specialised, from an indirect tax perspective, in business model optimisation (BMO) services, offering insights about how multinational companies should integrate their operational and tax planning in a scalable and sustainable way to help business leaders make more effective decisions on an after-tax basis.

Cooperating with clients from every business sector, António focuses on financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, distribution, transportation, healthcare, and public sector.

António also serves as a faculty member in several courses held in Portugal and abroad about taxation issues and has published several articles in newspapers, tax magazines, and tax books.

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Filipe Nogueira

Deloitte Portugal

Av. Eng. Duarte Pacheco, 7

1070-100 Lisbon

Portugal

Tel: +351 225439233

Email: finogueira@deloitte.pt

Website: www.deloitte.pt

Filipe Nogueira, Deloitte Portugal, is an indirect tax associate partner with 17 years' experience in indirect tax.

Filipe assists clients with various transactions in both the private and public sectors in virtually all industry areas, including manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, distribution, transportation, healthcare, education and the public sector (municipalities and also universities). At present, Filipe is engaged in several projects relative to VAT efficiency.

Filipe has published several articles and has also participated as an instructor with several training programmes in Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and the US.

Filipe earned a degree in management from the University of Porto and a degree in law from the Portuguese Catholic University.

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Frederico Antas

Vieira de Almeida

Catarina Belim

Vieira de Almeida

Sergio Brigas Afonso

RFF & Associados

Susana Caetano

PwC

Jose Franco Caiado

Jose Franco Caiado & Associados

Fernando Castro Silva

Garrigues, Taxand Portugal

Susana Claro

PwC

Isabel Vieira dos Reis

Garrigues, Taxand Portugal

Conceicao Gamito

Vieira de Almeida

Eduardo Gomes

Deloitte

Rui Henriques

EY

Marta Machado de Almeida

RFF & Associados

Alexandra Martins

KPMG

Catarina Matos

EY

Francisco Matos

Vieira de Almeida

Paulo Mendonca

EY

Joana Nunes dos Reis

Deloitte

Diogo Ortigao Ramos

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira

Clotilde Palma

Eduardo Paz Ferreire & Associados

Miguel Reis

PLMJ

Mario Silva Costa

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira

Tiago Almeida Veloso

Baker Tilly

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