Practice Areas

Taxation
This area includes advising on general corporate and personal income taxes, sales taxes for companies, as well as Valued Added Tax (VAT), and property taxes. It also includes complete advising on the tax system applicable to merger and acquisition operations. Cruz&Cía. represents its clients in obtaining special interpretations of rules, tax refunds and tax claims, and in trials pertaining to any of the previously mentioned issues before the Chilean Internal Revenue Service, the Appeals Court and the Supreme Court.

The lawyers at Cruz&Cía. have extensive experience in the structuring of business acquisitions, as well as the structuring of societies and joint-ventures both for national and foreign clients. Cruz&Cía. also offers advice in informing about the tax effect related to the reorganization of debt and other operations, both in and out of the framework of a bankruptcy.