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ITR: PLMJ’s tax team is the only Portuguese team to receive the "European Impact Cases" award at the European Tax Awards 2019

28/05/2019

The PLMJ Tax team recently received the European Impact Cases Portugal award: Change in VAT treatment of real estate transactions in Portugal, at the 15th edition of the European Tax Awards 2019, which were held in London.

Among the four cases selected as European Impact Cases for the year 2018, PLMJ is the only Portuguese law firm to win in this category at the European Tax Awards. Partners João Magalhães Ramalho and Serena Cabrita Neto, and senior associate Priscilla Santos, were responsible for PLMJ’s work on this winning case.

Nuno Cunha Barnabé, the partner, who heads PLMJ’s Tax and Family Wealth practice, says, "we are proud to receive this award as it reflects our team’s constant focus on bringing adding value to its clients and on making a contribution to achieving tax justice. In this case, the result has been a substantial change in the tax rules that had been unlawfully applied in respect of VAT in the real estate sector".

See the full list of winners of the European Tax Awards 2019 here.

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