Tax
Latin America Guide 2025 : Ecuador
Band 2
Contact number
+593 2 323 0375About
Provided by Lexvalor Abogados
Proper tax management is key to successful business operations, both for individuals and legal entities. The Tax Division of LEXVALOR Abogados has a multidisciplinary team of professionals (lawyers, engineers, financial experts, accountants, and auditors) specialized in tax matters who pool their complementary knowledge to advise and guide our clients in taking appropriate decisions, offering integral solutions for the correct tax management of their businesses.
Our firm is one of the most active teams in tax and customs assessment and litigation, and we participate in litigation at the most important tax courts in the country.
Our portfolio of tax services includes the following:
- Review of compliance with tax and customs obligations for individuals and legal entities
- Tax planning
- Tax and customs due diligence
- Merger and acquisition taxation
- International taxation
- Real estate taxation
- Family business taxation and estate counseling
- Analysis of transfer pricing.
- Accounting and financial advice
- Foreign trade and customs advisory services
- Subnational taxation
- Counsel support in petitions and claims in administrative proceedings (SRI/municipalities/customs)
- Tax and customs procedures and legal disputes
- Expert tax and customs analyses and assessment
Our Tax Division is an internationally recognized market leader ranked in Chambers and Partners Latin America.
Chambers Review
Lexvalor Abogados has an experienced tax practice group in Ecuador with a strong market presence and an important portfolio of domestic and international clients. The department routinely advises on tax assessments and international tax structuring, with additional expertise in handling contentious mandates related to transfer pricing, double taxation treaties and the reimbursement of tax credits. Lexvalor Abogados also has expertise advising on international trade regulations and customs law.
Work Highlights
- Lexvalor Abogados advised Productos Avon Ecuador in several audit suits filed by the Customs Service over many years. SENAE has questioned the amount declared by the company because it did not include royalties in the customs value.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lexvalor Abogados' team is superb, extremely professional, efficient and committed to the client."
"Lexvalor Abogados' team is superb, extremely professional, efficient and committed to the client."
Notable Practitioners
Respected partner Carlos Coronel is called upon by significant market players both at a national and an international level to assist with an array of matters, including tax audits and judicial tax claims in Ecuador.
"Carlos Coronel shows impressive knowledge of tax law and solutions."
Experienced partner and co-head of department Paola Gachet provides solid advice on tax matters to international and national clients in Ecuador.
"In tax aspects, Paola Gachet is a lawyer who understands client needs very well, which helps her to give the best business advice."
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Lexvalor Abogados
Ecuador
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