Tax

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Provided by Villaraza & Angangco

V&A Law advises on tax issues involving highly sophisticated mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, securities transactions, partnerships and joint ventures, complex credit transactions, as well as other high value commercial dealings, such as real estate transactions and the sale of goods and services. V&A Law’s tax lawyers have immense experience in direct and indirect taxes, including taxes imposed by local government units.

V&A Law provides competent legal services for both contentious and non-contentious tax matters to a wide range of clients, from multinationals and foreign entities desiring to do business in the Philippines to large and small domestic corporations, as well as high net worth individuals and families who have entrusted to the Firm the tax planning of their estates and other personal affairs.

Clients, such as leading financial institutions, rely on V&A Law to represent them in crucial tax-related court litigation up to the Supreme Court. V&A Law recently acted as counsel for a leading universal bank in a case involving the taxability of the interest income/discount from the P35 Billion Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates issued by the Philippine Government.

V&A Law has also provides assistance and advice to various government agencies, their respective officers, as well as private interest groups on relevant legal concerns relating to tax administration and tax reform in the Philippines.