Our most important feature is the fact that we are tax specialists offering companies and also individuals, either resident in Chile or not, our services. We optimize the tax benefits associated to national and cross-border transactions. Our solutions are based on our international expertise on entrepreneurial restructuring, permanent tax advice, tax planning in enterprises, within these, also including family companies as well as having the ability and skills necessary to use various applicable tax regimes.
Our team is highly qualified and highly skilled to assist our clients requests, on a permanent basis covering all the areas necessary; from their design, association, expansion, crossing the borders and/ or transformation. along with our corporate attorneys specialized in litigation, we provide our clients with an integral consultancy service and we ensure they use and apply the proper tax process, from a direct and indirect perspective as well as the tax procedures carried on in both the administrative and the jurisdictional areas.
Our clients are mainly national, large, medium and small sized companies and also multinationals with operations in several countries; due to this, they must obey to different tax regimes.
Permanent tax advice in the application and fulfillment of the tax legislation including the Income tax, Value added tax, Stamp tax, inheritance and gift tax, Land tax, municipal tax and Special taxes applied in Chile .
Tax Planning consulting: this service includes an analysis of the current tax situation of the company or taxpayer; a study of the probable solution or alternatives to maximize the tax variables; also includes a proposal with the most adequate and safe alternatives for the client; and the implementation of the ideas proposed until reaching the complete solution proposed or any other possible solution, like a “turn key” service.
International advice and tax planning services include the design, development, implementation and follow-up of multiple tax matters and issues in companies wishing to take their operations outside of Chile .
Permanent tax advice. This service includes the possibility to ask frequently, questions regarding the most important tax aspects within the company and a permanent presence and support associated to business decisions by advising the management or the professionals in charge of the company from a tax perspective.
Tax determinations which include: Assistance to prepare the monthly and/or annual tax returns that are required; Analysis of the tax bases to prepare the tax books and registries; Sworn statements and any other instrument or information that must be submitted to the tax authorities; etc.
Special tax-audit services that will be the basis to submit and to be presented to the Internal Revenue Service or any other administrative authorities the required tax information or documentation.
Tax representation and defense before any administrative or judicial organizations as the representative attorneys in the tax claim procedures as well as the special tax procedures.
Advice regarding to planning, preparing of instruments and defense in the event of an inspection referring to the transfer pricing policy among a Chilean company and its parent company or associates overseas.
Implementation and carry out of all juridical, financial, accounting and tax aspects relative to all the matters referred to above.
Integral services to expatriates.
Litigation and Arbitration
Our group of attorneys which specialize in trials, are mainly in charged of defending the interests of our clients. We participate in all areas within the civil, commercial and contentious scope in Chile . We also represent our clients before the contentious-administrative jurisdiction and within the penal tax area.
We are highly experienced in arbitration; being this locally or internationally. We are focused on the specialized conduction of litigant companies.
We also use other resources for the solution of controversies.
Our clients are mostly large and medium size national and international companies within the Agricultural, Industrial, Mining and Construction Industries.
Corporate litigation.
-Challenge of corporate agreements and administrators’ liability.
-Tax trials.
-Equity liabilities.
-Economic-administrative proceedings.
-National and international arbitration.
Corporate and Entrepreneureal Assistance
We have achieved great expertise in securities market, such as in design and providing consulting investment services, nationally and internationally and implementing various kinds of transactions
-Acquisitions and sales.
-Company and entrepreneurial group mergers & acquisitions.
-Risk capital investments.
-Foreign investment contracts.
-Advice in foreign capital contributions and loans.
-Joint ventures.
-Incorporation of companies and creation of business structures.
-Entrepreneurial restructuring. Dissolution and settlement of companies.
-Consultancy services in general, financing operations or acquisitions.
-Public auctions.
-Issue of securities.
-Assistance to obtain regulatory licenses.
-Advice in pre litigation and transactional procedures.
-Advice to Boards of Directors and directors.
Labor and Judicial
-Specialized advice and opinions in all areas of labor relations and social security.
-Analysis and preparation of all kinds of labor contracts.
-Assistance in entrepreneurial reorganization processes.
-Negotiations, and seizing where necessary before negotiating commissions, labor or administrative authorities.
-Assistance, participation and negotiation of employment conditions, labor relationships.
-Assistance in collective bargaining and solution of conflicts.
-Assistance to negotiate new employment conditions, functional and geographical mobility.
-Labor audits.
-Due diligence.
-Advice, design and implementation of labor compensation systems.
-Advice regarding special permits, leaves and working hours.
-Assistance in labor accident or any related matters.
-Advice, design and drafting of internal rules.
-Labor risk prevention.
-Specialized assistance in trials and arbitration procedures.
-Collective bargaining.
-Assistance to deal with the Labor Inspection.
-Employment conditions certification.
-Design of sub hiring policies and preparing of the required documentation to fulfill with the new legislation.
-Assistance to design labor relationships and employment conditions and benefits.