Catarina Belim

Practice Areas

Tax, VAT & Indirect Taxes

Career

Catarina Belim has an extensive background working with Tax and Custom matters.

She began her career in Deloitte’s Indirect Tax division which she left to join leading law firm VdA for almost a decade, where she played a successful role in developing the firm’s tax practice area.

In 2016 Catarina founded her own law firm, Belim (now Belim Castilho), with a special focus on Tax, Customs and International Trade.

Catarina provides multi-skilled assistance to clients, both corporate and private, covering practical and comprehensive legal, tax and customs advice, representation in litigation cases and active assistance on compliance, reporting, invoicing and licensing matters.

Catarina integrates the list of eligible tax arbitrators next to CAAD – Portuguese Arbitration Centre for tax and administrative proceeding since 2018, deciding in relevant VAT cases dealing with national and EU law provisions.

Professional Memberships

Active member in international organisations such as IVA – International VAT Association, GLCA – Global Legal Customs Association and AIJA – International Association of Young Lawyers (Tax Law Commission) and IBA.

Publications

Catarina publishes regularly and is a frequent speaker, promotor and participant in conferences and events for the discussion and further development of tax, VAT & customs matters.