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Provided by FCAM - Ferraz de Camargo e Matsunaga Advogados
FCAM Advogados was founded in 1989 with an exclusively focus on Tax. Throughout the years FCAM has expanded to all main areas of law, becoming a full-service firm, but Tax law is still one of ours leading areas.
FCAM serves national and international clients from all industries and sectors, providing high quality services to companies, families and individuals, seeking to assist them to navigate through the complexity of the Brazilian environment.
Our consulting services include legal opinions on controversial tax matters, assessment of tax risks and positions, assistance on M&A transactions, tax structuring and modeling, analysis of cross-border transactions, tax planning, assistance on tax incentives and the monetization of tax credits.
Our disputes resolution services comprise the assistance on the entire tax dispute cycle, including the design of defensive strategies, assistance on documenting transactions and positions for further inspections, assistance on tax queries, audit procedures, voluntary disclosure and settlement programs, representation of clients in audit procedures and before the administrative and judicial Brazilian courts.
Provided by Chambers
FCAM - Ferraz de Camargo e Matsunaga Advogados has a tax litigation department with a solid activity before the Carf and the STJ. The team is active handling disputes arising from a range of state and federal taxes, including ICMS, IRPJ/CSLL, and PIS/Cofins. The firm has additional experience advising clients on matters related to the Manaus Free Trade Zone.
Provided by Chambers
FCAM assisted Faurecia with its requests to exclude ICMS from the PIS/Cofins calculation base and to recover PIS/Cofins payments from the last five years.
Provided by Chambers
I like that FCAM are very on the ball, always working to the beat of our urgencies. They know a lot about tax litigation proceedings and manage to discuss our success chances clearly.
FCAM is a firm that stands out due to its technical prowess and highly skilled tax litigation team. The team is also very accessible and available.
The knowledge and experience in the tax litigation matters we discuss, combined with business expertise, set FCAM partners apart from their competitors. We have a solid, trusting relationship with them.
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