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

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.

Firm overview

Mazars is a leading international audit, tax and advisory firm. Operating as a united partnership, we work as one integrated team, leveraging expertise, scale and cultural understanding to deliver exceptional and tailored services in audit and accounting, as well as tax, financial advisory, consulting and legal services.

Mazars has two offices in Greece, in Athens and Thessaloniki. Mazars Tax professionals in Greece provide tax services related to Compliance, Advisory, Assurance and Transfer Pricing.

We are all guided by the values of Integrity, Diversity, Independence, Diversity and Respect, Responsibility, Technical Excellence and Stewardship. We provide bespoke advice in all areas of taxation: global mobility and employment tax, global tax credits and incentives, international tax, M&A tax, VAT and indirect tax, transfer pricing, tax dispute resolution. We also help corporates and private clients at both national and international levels.

An indicative example of the expansion of our activities constitutes the preparation of over 200 transfer pricing documentation files and the performance of over 500 benchmarking studies during FY2020. Mazars managed to undertake new projects of foreign customers that have decided to expand their operations in Greece either through the acquisition of Greek established entities or by establishing new entities in Greece.