Carlos Serrano Palacio

Carlos is a partner at Deloitte Spain specialising in international taxation, particularly in transfer pricing and tax controversy. He has assisted multinational groups in transfer pricing issues (tax controversy and tax prevention, elimination of double taxation, policy design, documentation). Carlos previously worked as a tax inspector for the Spanish Tax Administration for more than 20 years, becoming the deputy head of the International Taxation Office. He was also the coordinator of the Spanish advance pricing agreement programme, and was involved in mutual agreement negotiations, joint audits/multilateral controls, and transfer pricing audits.

Carlos has had a long international career as a Spanish delegate in various international organisations (such as the OECD, the EU, the Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations, the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations), including his participation in the OECD’s Working Party No.6 on the Taxation of Multinational Enterprises for several years.

His professional work has been combined with teaching and dissemination activity in various courses, seminars, talks, and colloquia on international taxation.