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KPMG is a firm of more than 1,200 extraordinary professionals driven to fulfill a BIG purpose: Inspiring Trust. Promoting Change. It brings together 254 professionals dedicated to providing specialized tax and legal services in areas such as compliance, advisory, International Tax, M&A, transfer pricing, disputes and litigation, customs and exchange, and BPO services.
Among the sectors of the economy we serve are financial and insurance, consumer, natural resources, technology, telecommunications, services, tourism and airlines, health, government, infrastructure and public sector. We are present in 4 cities in Colombia: Bogota, Cali, Medellin and Barranquilla.
KPMG is a Firm that has been providing tax services for more than 60 years and has worked with companies and clients from different sectors, including Oil and Gas, Energy, Technology and Telecommunications, Industrial, Automotive, among others; during the last year we have participated in important transactions in the concessions and energy sector. Additionally, we are ranked in Chambers&Partners, 500 Legal and Best Lawyers.
At KPMG Colombia, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our organizational culture. We are a young company in which 78% of our employees are under 35 years old and our management group is diverse between men (46%) and women (54%). We have non-negotiable pillars to build strong work teams because we respect and understand that the differences inherent to each of us as individuals enrich us and allow us to see beyond opportunities.
- Business model optimisation
- Cross-border project management
- Technology services
- APAs
- Corporate taxes
- Financial services
- M&A
- Restructuring
- Technology
- Transactions
- Value chains
- Audit defence
- Audit support
- Controversy management
- Dispute resolution
- Litigation
- Pre-litigation
- Customs
- GST
- Supply chains
- VAT
- International tax advisory
- Tax consulting
- Audit defence
- Audit support
- Business restructuring
- Controversy management
- Cross-border project management
- Dispute resolution
- International tax planning
- Litigation
- TP risk management
- Other
- Agriculture
- Aviation
- Automotive
- Banking
- Consumer goods and services
- Energy
- Financial services
- Food and beverage
- Government and public policy
- Industrials
- Insurance
- Mining
- Oil and gas
- Pharmaceutical and life sciences
- Technology and telecommunications
- Utilities
International Tax
Ricardo Andrés Ruiz Cabrera
Lead partner
ricardoaruiz@kpmg.com
Practice speciality: Tax expert with 20 years of experience at Big Four firms. He has extensive experience in national, international taxation and M&A transactions, including strategic advice, planning, compliance, due diligence, and structuring.
Recent matter highlights:
- Ricardo is a frequent speaker at tax conferences in Colombia.
- He has also published several book’s articles in International Tax matters.
- Head of the International Tax Program offered by the Colombian Tax Institute (Instituto Colombiano de Derecho Tributario).
- Former chair of the Colombian branch of IFA (International Fiscal Association), and member of its board of directors.
Transfer Pricing
Jorge Angarita Gómez
Partner for Transfer Pricing
jaangarita@kpmg.com
Practice speciality: Economist with a Master in Business Administration (MBA) with emphasis on finance and strategy. He has knowledge and experience in corporate finance, Transfer Pricing, and business strategy. Jorge has more than 15 years of experience in transfer pricing matters, both in the private and public sectors; he has worked in different Big Four and law firms in Colombia and Chile, as well as in the Chilean Tax Authority.
Recent matter highlights:
- Jorge has advised clients in different industries such as Oil & Gas, mining, construction, Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT), agriculture, energy, financial and investment, pharmaceutical, mass consumption, among others.
- Jorge has led and coordinated consultancies on Transfer Pricing matters for different jurisdictions in South America.
- He has had the opportunity to advise multinationals on TP documentation, TP planning, TP policy design and implementation, business restructuring and value chain analysis, IP and Intangible valuation models, Cash pooling and financial structures, negotiation of Advance Price Agreements (APA’s), among others.
- Advise companies in TP Litigation processes with the Tax Authorities including several types of transactions under audit, such as financial structures, tangible goods, intangibles, intercompany services, and business restructuring.
- Besides of actively participate in the private sector, Jorge had the opportunity to work in the Servicio de Impuestos Internos (SII) of Chile as an advisor of the International Tax Department.
- Jorge is professor of Transfer Pricing module of the Master in Taxation at the Universidad de Chile, as well, he teaches in the Transfer Pricing Diploma of Universidad de Santiago de Chile at the Universidad of Santiago de Chile (USACH).
Corporate Tax Compliance
Camilo Andrés Rodriguez
Partner of the practices of Conflict Resolution and Litigation, Customs and Exchange, Labor and Immigration Law
camilorodriguez@kpmg.com
Camilo has a wide experience in the development of works of fiscal and labor fulfillment, review of income tax returns, labor compliance, reply to requirements of tax and labor authorities.
Camilo also has a wide experience in the development of tax, customs, exchange and general legacy compliance work, including the review of tax returns, review of exchange forms, registration of foreign investment and/or borrowings as well as response to the requirements of the control authorities and associated judicial processes.
- He has been working in KPMG in the legal area since 2012 and, previously, he worked in the Direction of National Tax and Customs in Colombia (DIAN) between 1992 and 2012. Director of Income Management, from February 2011 until January 2012. Director of Legal Management, from November 2008 to February 2011. Chief of the Legal Office, from November 2004 to November 2008. Advisor in customs matters of the Director General of National Tax and Customs Office, from October 1995 to August 1997. Operative Deputy Director assigned, from September to October 1995. Director in charge of the department in six opportunities.
- He has participated in multiple international engagements, and he has industry experience in Telecommunications & Oil & Gas sectors.
- He has been a speaker at various seminars of the DIAN, Colombian Institute of Tax Law (ICDT), among others.
- He is recurrent columnist for Diario la República and Portafolio magazine.
- He is an active member of the Colombian Institute of Tax Law (ICDT).
- He is an active member of the IFA (International Fiscal Association).
Tax Bookkeeping Payroll
Oswaldo Pérez Quiñones
Partner, Accounting Outsourcing in Colombia
uperez@kpmg.com
Practice speciality: He has been a partner since 2010, with more than twenty-five years of experience in areas such as external tax audit for different national and international companies.
Recent matter highlights:
- Currently, he leads the GCMS services (Global Compliance Management Services) for Colombia.
- He has participated in planning and compliance advisory to large multinationals, as well, as he currently is in charge of tax technology.
- He was in charge of the IES (International Executive Services) service for five years.
- Advisory Member in the implementation of IFRS in Colombia in relation to taxes in the Technical Council of Accounting.
- President of technical tax and economic affairs of the ICDT, year 2017.
- He has been professor of tax issues at the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino and Universidad Externado de Colombia.
Cali Office
Calle 6 N # 1- 42
Cali, 760045
Colombia
T: +57 (2) 668 1480
Medellín Office
Carrera 43a # 1 south - 220
Medellin, 05001
Colombia
T: +57 (4) 355 6060
Barranquilla Office
Carrera 53 # 82 - 86
Barranquilla, 11011
Colombia
+57 (5) 378 4232
