Greece

Firm overview

In the global tax environment, what's most needed is also most elusive: Confidence. Deloitte helps clients anticipate change to see through uncertainty and decide on the future. From best practices to innovative tools, from regulation to strategy, from human capital to disruptive technology, Deloitte helps clients to connect all the critical pieces for success.

With many years of experience and unique knowhow, the Greek tax practice offers a full range of tax and legal services, employing more than 230 professionals. Three years ago, Deloitte recruited one the best legal teams on corporate law and M&A. This dynamic attracted top talents and this team kept getting bigger; it now numbers over 25 lawyers, covering all legal aspects a business needs (corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, management consulting, data protection, labor law etc.).

Our tax professionals advise large local and foreign enterprises on their tax & legal issues and offer effective solutions to manage tax issues. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business and industry knowledge to help companies excel globally. Our tax services are fully integrated, spanning from business tax, mergers and acquisitions, global investment and innovation incentives and transfer pricing to global employer services, indirect tax, business process solutions and legal services. 

In early 2019, the most eminent tax litigation lawyer joined Deloitte. His team has already dealt with landmark cases. This new addition completed the spectrum of tax offerings, highlighting that we recruit the best in everything we decide to do.  

Deloitte’s transfer pricing team has more than 20 fee earners in their Athens and Thessaloniki offices. The team has expanded its service offering according to the post-BEPS environment requirements and the latest advances in tax technology. This includes restructuring, APAs and MAPs as well as Operational Transfer Pricing solutions focusing on process optimization and analytics. Fotis Tsamparlis, partner, heads the transfer pricing team.

At Deloitte, we aim to be the best at all that we do–help clients realize their ambitions; make a positive difference in society; and maximize the success of our people.

Firm overview

Andersen is the Greek member firm of Andersen Global®, an international association of member firms comprised of tax and legal professionals worldwide.

Andersen in Greece, based in Athens, specialized in tax and accounting and offering a full range of services, including tax accounting, payroll, tax compliance, corporate tax services, tax services to HNWI and UHNWI, international tax services and transfer pricing.

Firm overview

The tax framework is being constantly transformed through the incorporation of international and EU rules, and best practices promoting transparency and combating tax avoidance. This is taking place amidst ever-present efforts to enhance tax collection and enforcement. Our top tier tax & accounting practice—consisting of a team of over 40 experts with academic backgrounds in law, economics and accounting—is ideally positioned to help clients address the challenges created by this environment. Combining the transactional expertise of a leading, internationally-oriented, law firm with our experience in tax and accountancy services, we offer our clients comprehensive solutions for complying, creating added value through managing tax impact, and understanding the critical tax considerations of innovative transactions.

We cover all tax areas, from transactional advisory, to preparation, to filing of tax returns. Our clients count on us to be their trusted advisor, whether they want to run by us advice on tax issues related to their day-to-day business, receive guidance on how to navigate a tax audit or obtain sophisticated cross-border structuring advice. Our tax advisors have specialized industry experience in a variety of business sectors; they can also draw upon a top-notch group of experts to form the right team in order to assist clients on those matters. We organize seminars for our clients’ staff, keep them up-to-date on significant changes and act as their business partner by ensuring they have the tools to achieve and remain safe and transparent. Also, where required, we deploy novel solutions to help them manage the tax risks of new business challenges. A highly specialized tax team forms part of our private clients practice.

Firm overview

For another year, our Greek Tax Team continued to expand, hiring more people and establishing further itself as the biggest tax firm in Greece, both in terms of people (current headcount of 315 tax professionals) and of revenues.

Our firm provides cross border tax advisory services through our international tax professionals and our strong TP practice, the latter being the largest in Greece and awarded the title of National TP Firm of the Year 12 times since 2009. Our specialized transaction tax professionals are recognized as leaders, both in terms of complexity of transactions undertaken and quality of support offered. By providing services throughout the entire transaction life cycle, spanning from tax due diligence on potential targets and tax structuring of the deal to post-closing implementation and post-acquisition integration of targets into the buyer’s group structure, they have assisted in the successful completion of major transactions, always within the clients’ commercial constraints and strategies.

EY’s tax controversy and litigation services team has been established as the leading big-4 firm in this field as well in Greece, by managing high-profile cases (including mass-litigations), some of which have triggered break-through Supreme Court decisions changing set jurisprudence.

Finally, EY acts as the permanent tax expert advisor to the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), while regularly offers opinions to the Greek Independent Authority for Public Revenues re tax rules’ implementation.

Our day-to-day practice demonstrates that our core priority is the delivery of exceptional client service by being connected, responsive and insightful. In addition to remaining trusted advisors to our clients, we focus on thinking and acting globally and across service lines. The above competitive advantages have led to our dominant positioning and reputation in the Greek tax market and underpin our constant strive to create a better working world.