Industrial and Consumer Products Sector

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The Tax and Legal Team of  Landwell - PwC specialises in the industrial product sector, and collaborates with the companies that make up the paper, iron and steel, machine and tool manufacturing, chemical, aerospace and defence and security industries, offering its knowledge and experience to analyse any  legal and tax aspects that may affect them.

In particular, our collaboration provides industrial companies with recurring and proactive advice on a preventive basis and at the time operations, contracts, actions or specific businesses are completed or even, if appropriate, upholding our clients'  interests before the appropriate courts  and also taking EU institutions into consideration.

Our joint legal and tax approach, together with our international professional expert network  in the industry sector, enables us to analyse and propose innovative  value added solutions for companies.

In this way, our legal services encompass - broadly - the study of any aspect of civil, mercantile, labour, penal or administrative law, including, inter alia, the structure and redefining of corporate groups, company and business planning, flotations, preparation, execution and termination of contracts, agreements with agents, distributors and concessionaires, contractual indemnity clauses, remuneration and negotiation of salary conditions, workforce restructuring causes and formulae, focus on financing and corporate restructuring processes, personal data protection and  intellectual and industrial property and involvement  in notarial, registry and legal actions.

In the case of  tax , our team specialises in providing advice on taxes that mainly affect the industry sector - indirect taxes and customs, corporate income tax, personal income tax, municipal taxes and non-resident income tax - and representation and assistance in management processes, tax inspections as well as upholding of the Company’s approach before the Tax Agency and administrative courts by lodging the pertinent appeals and claims.

The multidisciplinary nature of our Firm enables Landwell - PwC to provide professional services in four areas aimed at reducing the tax charge in industry sector companies:
  • I.- TAX PLANNING  (international taxes, operations localisation, application of double tax treaties, valuation and documentation of related -party operations, etc.).
  • II.- OPTIMISATION OF SPANISH TAXATION (exemptions and deductions on income sourced abroad,  foreign securities bolding companies, deductions for reinvestment of capital gains, processing of environmental deductions, taxation of R&D and TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION   and documentation of the relevant corporate income tax deductions etc.)
  • III.- RESTRUCTURING OF INDUSTRIAL GROUPS  (location and review of operations, application for grants and public aid, application of the protected corporate income tax regime on special operations, tax reviews  and “Due Diligence”, quantification and regularisation of tax payments, deferral and fractioning of debts with the Tax Agency etc.). and
  • IV.- TAX PROCEEDINGS  (Ruling requests with the Directorate General for Taxation, Claims and Appeals after tax inspections,  requests for the refund of  tax inappropriately paid,  upholding appeals under EU jurisdiction etc)