KPMG Chile

Managing Partners: Francisco Lyon

Number of Tax & Legal Partners: 14

Firm Overview 

KPMG offers a wide range of tax services to its clients, whether large multinational corporations and medium-size enterprises as well as individuals. Its scope of services includes general tax advice, planning advice and corporate legal services with a strong focus in delivering practical advice designed to reduce risks and contribute in creating long term value for its clients. Its very broad range of services allows the Firm to provide its clients with a view of the all-round implications of tax structures enabling them to make financial decisions with confidence. The Firm’s services include domestic and international tax advisory, tax disputes, corporate tax, labour tax, expatriate tax services, transfer pricing, capital market, tax planning, transactional tax and legal services including due diligence work as well as acquisition structuring, review of financial models, assistance with negotiations and all kinds of corporate legal advice. It has a high level of expertise in different industries or sectors as banking, mining, forestry, manufacture, transport industry, technology, energy, communications, etc.

Main Areas of Practice 

• Corporate Tax & Legal Services

The Firm advises on all aspects of local and international taxation, covering highly complex areas such as application of tax treaties, application of local tax law, VAT, assessment of permanent establishment risks, foreign tax credit utilisation, etc. Also, the Firm provides a wide range of corporate legal services, including advice in legal due diligence, acquisitions, reorganisations, labour law, immigration, legal and tax advice to expatriates, among others.

• Transfer Pricing

The Firm’s Transfer Pricing Area helps companies to develop and implement economically supportable transfer pricing, policies and outcomes documents, and respond to the challenges of the tax authority. The practice includes economists, tax specialists, lawyers and financial analysts KPMG members of the firm around the world who offer experienced local resources and specialised local knowledge in a global context — it leads the firm to create efficient transfer pricing strategies, from the tax perspective and commercially viable.

• Tax Compliance

The effective administration of the tax area is to manage and optimise tax risks and issues in a wellstructured ambient. Its team of dedicated professionals, experienced in tax, accounting and project management are located in cities in which its clients firms operate — not remote processing centres — allowing KPMG to provide a single point of contact at a time that follows multiple local regulatory requirements.

• M&A

This practice is part of a professional network that combines global understanding and experience in agreements with local knowledge of tax jurisdictions. The Firm helps companies with international merger and acquisitions and other transactions. It offers a range of tax services to corporate mergers and acquisitions and private equity investors covering all phases of domestic and international transactions.

• Dispute Resolution & Controversy Services

KPMG works to prevent, efficiently manage, and favourably resolve tax audits and tax disputes. It has tax specialists who can assist clients in every area of dispute. The Firm combines deep technical understanding, local knowledge, tax litigation experience, and a global perspective to provide unrivalled service.

• Labour & Expatriates Tax Services

This practice gives an integral advice on matters of Human Capital. In one place you will find legal and tax professionals, experts in labour matters, labour — tax, social security and immigration matters of business. Also, the Firm’s practice of IES helps companies with their global mobile program. It provides a model for early delivery service covering wide compliance services, consulting and management to support global business and representatives of organisations.

Languages 

English, Spanish.

International Work 

As part of the international network of KPMG member firms, KPMG Chile actively participates in providing tax services for regional and major global projects.