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Key contacts
Head of Tax: Luís Magalhães
Quick facts
Partners

19

Total number of lawyers

310

Languages

Portuguese, English, French, Spanish

Network memberships

We are a member of the KPMG network, composed by independent affiliated firms of KPMG International.

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Indirect tax
Private client
Tax
Tax controversy
Transactional tax
Transfer pricing
Firm overview

KPMG is the leading Tax Firm in Portugal.
KPMG Portugal’s Tax team has been growing consistently throughout last decade, currently counting 310 professionals (193 female + 117 male).
Our professionals are specialized in several technical areas of practice and focused on delivering a full range of services: from Tax Advisory Services to Compliance and Risk assessment, Controversy, Employment & Mobility, M&A, Incentives or, more recently, Tax ESG, Governance and Technology.
Our teams operate in several lines of business, having achieved a remarkable position, working with the major players (local or global) but also with the middle market, aligned with KPMG’s strategy in Portugal.
All 310 professionals are deeply involved in maximizing value for the clients through a very challenging but decisive combination of a strong technical background, strict ethics and a clear problem-solving and result driven attitude.
KPMG Portugal is focused in transforming (tax) knowledge in value, supporting the set up or development of businesses while having the clients and capital markets in the center.
Because times are changing rapidly, a new are of practice has also been added, Tax Innovation, aiming to add a technological dimension and foster innovation both internally (resulting in a better user experience) and externally (with an increased offer to clients who KPMG Portugal may now help to rethink processes or governance of their own tax practices or introduce a technology layer).
It also should be stressed that each one of our 310 professionals is bound by the “Principles for a Responsible Tax Practice” of KPMG International, being required to “act lawfully and with integrity in dealing with tax authorities and our clients and we aim to be fully compliant with all relevant requirements”.

Key practice areas
  • Business model optimisation
  • Cross-border project management
  • Economic modelling
  • Technology services
  • Corporate tax matters: Corporate taxes, Environmental, Financial services, M&A, Restructuring, Transactions
  • Indirect tax: Customs, GST, Supply chains, VAT
  • Tax advisory: International tax advisory, Tax consulting
  • Transfer pricing: Audit support, Business restructuring, Controversy management, Cross-border project management
Sector expertise
  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Media
  • Oil and gas
  • Real estate
  • Technology and telecommunications
Other offices

Edifício Burgo

Av. da Boavista, 1837, Piso 16

4100 – 133 Porto, Portugal

Tel: +351 220 102 300

Email: ptkpmg@kpmg.com

Address:
Edificio FPM41 - Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, n.º 41 - 15º
Lisboa, 1069-006
Tel:+351210110000 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://kpmg.com/pt/pt/home/services/tax.html
2026 Edition
General corporate tax
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Transfer pricing
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Overview

KPMG Portugal operates a very large practice, working across all areas of direct and indirect taxation. Its practice focuses on the financial sector, including corporate taxation and indirect taxation. It also has a growing private client advisory department following the creation of the Portuguese incentive plans. Head of tax is partner Luís Magalhães. Partner Ricardo Girão is the indirect specialist, and Miguel Baptista is based in financial services tax. Associate partner João Guimarães is the transfer pricing specialist and associate partner Luís Reis oversees the corporate function in the Angola office.  

The firm provided financial model review, valuation services and capital structure evaluation for an African multinational in a private equity transaction. It also assisted an infrastructure fund with M&A buy-side and financial due diligence services, inclusive of a special purchase agreement. M&A Tax guidance was given to Quinta do Lago in connection with the acquisition of the Conrad hotel. 

Transfer pricing director Gonçalo Cevada arrived form Deloitte Luxembourg on May 2nd, 2025. Senior manager Catarina S. Carreira joined form EY in 2024, and tax manager Tânia Silva relocated from Deloitte in September 2024. Outbound partner Michael A. Santos departed the corporate tax function in May 2025.  

Client feedback

‘’Excellent professionals. They are top-tier advisors.’’

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KPMG Portugal operates a very large practice, working across all areas of direct and indirect taxation. Its practice focuses on the financial sector, including corporate taxation and indirect taxation. It also has a growing private client advisory department following the creation of the Portuguese incentive plans. Head of tax is partner Luís Magalhães. Nine partners are allocated across the Lisbon and Porto offices. Partner Ricardo Girão is the indirect specialist and Filipe Grenho is based in financial services tax.

The firm provided buy-side tax due diligence, tax structuring and SPV advice to a global supermarket. It also provided intragroup negotiation and insurance evaluation as part of its transfer pricing services.

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