Orozco / Pardo & Asociados

Is a tax consulting firm founded in 1988 by Alba Lucía Orozco and Santiago Pardo, Directors of National Taxes in Colombia. The firm currently has an interdisciplinary group of professionals in the areas of law, economics, accounting, business administration and systems engineering, which allows the company to offer integral tax consulting services.

As of the year 2003, with the occasion of Mr. Ricardo Ramírez-Acuña’s joining the firm, the company offers international exchange services, foreign investment, foreign trade and customs. Mr. Ramírez-Acuña has held positions in Customs Direction, Banco de la República and Colombian Direction of Foreign Trade before the European Union.

For the last 20 years, the company has rendered consulting services in different countries, for the design and implementation of their tax reforms. In this field, it has offered consulting to the following countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Macedonia.

The firm is currently performing tax consulting, foreign investment, foreign trade, exchange and customs consulting to domestic and international companies with business in Colombia and abroad.

In the tax area the consulting involves:

Taxes managed by the Direction of Taxes and National Customs - DIAN (Income Tax, Remittance Tax, Sales Tax, Stamp Tax, tariffs on financial transactions and withholdings), municipal taxes (Trade and Industry Tax, Real Estate Tax and Gasoline Surcharge) and departmental taxes (Consumption Tax and Registration Tax), as well as handling of Administrative and Legal Processes.
The firm currently offers services of tax planning and transfer pricing studies.

In the international exchange services area the consulting involves:

The Colombian exchange scheme, payments on imports and exports of gooods, foreign indebtedness, foreign investment, compensation accounts, free-market transactions, import and export of services, transactions with Colombia’s Central Bank, administrative and legal processes.

Regarding foreign trade and customs the consulting involves:

International trade legislation, Colombian customs regulations, special schemes for imports and exports, free-trade zones, special trade zones, mechanisms for promotion of exports, Vallejo Plan, payment of customs tariffs, tariff classification, customs assessment, administrative and legal processes.

Regarding foreign investment the consulting involves:

Legal consulting regarding international investments, foreign investment in Colombia, Colombian investments abroad, transactions with Colombia’s Central Bank and foreign investment registry.
The firm has as permanent clients, 250 of the most important companies in the country, both domestic and multinational contractors, according to customer preference.

• Hourly consulting
• Ongoing consulting

Within these two modes, the firm offers the following services:

• Solution of specific queries.
• Handling of government and legal related processes.
• Project assessment on tax, customs, exchange and financial issues.
• Tax, customs and exchange planning.
• Review and preparation of tax declarations
• Ongoing supply of information by e-mail and webpage
• Execution of transfer pricing studies
• Customs valuation
• Tariff classification
• Consulting in Legal Stability with the Nation