Teamwork central to Telefônica’s tax compliance in Brazil

March 28 2014

Vasco Gruber Franco is head of tax for the Telefônica group in Brazil. He previously worked on the advisory side at Arthur Andersen, and has held other in-house roles at DuPont and Philip Morris. Here, he talks to Matthew Gilleard about heading up a tax department in Brazil.

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