SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

Philippines

World Tax Reviews

Tax

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan is a full-service law firm. The team offers tax services, from advising on, and structuring, the tax aspects of corporate transactions to administrative and judicial litigation in relation to tax refunds and defending clients against assessments for national, local taxes and customs duties.

One of its work highlights saw the team acting as counsel for a client in an ongoing tax litigation matter. It represented the client before the Court of Tax Appeals to recover a total of over PHP1 billion in excise taxes that were wrongfully collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue through administrative issuances that violated the statutory provisions they were intended to implement.

Client feedback

“They know the law well and the processes that need to be followed to successfully close our application.”

“Prompt assistance and responses to queries.”