Chile

Firm overview

In Chile, KPMG has a strong tax practice that has been steadily growing with presence in six cities including our national office in Santiago and regional offices in Viña del Mar, Concepcion, Antofagasta, Valdivia and Puerto Montt.

The firm's services include domestic and international tax advisory, tax disputes, corporate tax, labor tax, expatriate tax services, transfer pricing, capital market, tax planning and transactional tax services including tax due diligence work as well as acquisition structuring, review of financial models and assistance with negotiations.

Currently the team has more than 40 full time tax lawyers covering a wide range of tax specialties, and considering other more than 150 tax professionals, mainly tax accountants and economists. Within our team we have a large number of professionals with post graduate degrees from local as well as foreign universities (NYU, University of Florida, LSE, Leiden, etc.).

Firm overview

PwC has been present in Chile since 1914. For more than 100 years we have rendered professional services to the most prestigious local and global companies doing business in Chile and abroad.

Our main objective is to help our clients be successful and assist them into making correct and efficient business decisions. For that purpose, we provide them timely consultancy services regarding relevant tax and legal issues for their businesses, considering applicable legislation and business structuring, adding value via proposing innovative solutions in an efficient manner.

Our Tax and Legal Services Department counts with a staff of excellence formed by approximately 480 professionals, most of which are lawyers and certified accountants, located in our offices at Santiago, Viña del Mar, Concepción, and Puerto Montt.

Firm overview

Puente Sur, a member of the Praxity Alliance, is a full-service tax and accounting firm with more than 140 staff members serving 150 multinational enterprises investing or operating in Chile through more than 300 legal entities.

Puente Sur is committed to providing a wide array of tax-related services such as M&A structuring, transfer pricing planning, tax compliance, and VAT recovery procedures.

The firm is unique in having an extensive media presence, thus contributing to the ongoing debate concerning tax matters in Latin America and Chile, and enabling businesses to express their views in the public arena. For that purpose, Puente Sur has contributed actively to media companies such as Bloomberg, International VAT Monitor, Tax Notes, and local outlets including Diario Financiero, La Tercera, and EMOL.

Puente Sur’s core practices ensure that organizations remain tax compliant (e.g., by having the proper transfer pricing support documentation), while representing their interests before local authorities and business partners.

Some of the most crucial work has dealt with representing companies before the IRS to enhance tax transparency of applicable digital business models, addressing transfer pricing audits, and managing VAT recovery processes.

On the transactional side, Puente Sur has supported M&A projects in sectors such as telecommunications and maritime ports.