Tax Claims Solicitors

The firm has a team of lawyers with extensive experience in claims against the Tax Agency and in all kinds of tax procedures. If you need a lawyer for a tax inspection, we offer advice and legal defence before local, regional and state tax administrations, as well as in filing administrative and judicial appeals.

Main services of our lawyers specialised in Tax Agency Claims and tax appeals

  • Planning and execution of the strategy to follow both during the inspection and in any subsequent appeals
  • Representation of the client before the inspection bodies, with assistance at hearings
  • Coordination and preparation of the documentation to be submitted at the various hearings
  • Advice on tax liability derivation proceedings
  • Assistance in responding to requests from the Tax Agency and other tax administrations
  • Advice and representation of the client before the different bodies of the State TaxAdministration in the event of value checks or parallel assessments in Personal Income Tax, Corporate Income Tax and VAT
  • Advice on value checks or parallel assessments by regional administrations (Transfer Tax and Stamp Duty or Inheritance and Gift Tax) and local administrations (municipal capital gains tax, Business Activity Tax, Property Tax, etc.)
  • Planning of the procedural strategy to follow
  • Filing of appeals for reconsideration against tax assessments and penalties.
  • Filing of economic-administrative claims against tax acts.
  • Request for suspension of the debt or deferral/instalment payment of the assessment
  • Filing of contentious-administrative appeals
  • Request for judicial suspension of the appealed debt

Our specialist solicitors

Mercedes Nieto

Legal Area Manager

Mercedes Nieto is a Lawyer and Economist and partner in the Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts practice at MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS. She began her professional career in the Coporate Law and Commercial Department of Garrigues and later moved to Qatar to work in a construction company until she joined the Corporate Law and Comercial Department of KPMG Abogados.

In 2018, she joined a law firm in Marbella as head of the Corporate Law and Commercial Department until joining MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS as a Partner.

She specialises in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), real estate, national and international contracts and civil law.

She has been involved in M&A and property transactions across a wide range of sectors, and was recognised for her work as a solicitor in the field of commercial law and mergers and acquisitions by ‘Best Lawyers International’ in its 2020 and 2021 editions; in 2020, she was also awarded the prize for best lawyer in that field, and nominated in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Carmen Gallardo

Head of Tax Area

Carmen Gallardo is a Lawyer and Economist and Partner of the Tax Department of MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS.

She began her professional career more than 10 years ago in the Tax Law department of Garrigues until she joined the tax department of a multinational group of companies in the logistics sector based in Madrid, where she joined the financial-tax department of the parent company in Germany for three months, where she broadened her knowledge of international taxation.

In 2018, she joined the tax department of a law firm in Marbella until the foundation of MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS where she is partner responsible of the Tax Department.

Carmen specialises in corporate tax law. She has developed her career advising multinational groups on direct and indirect, national and international taxation and has participated in many corporate restructuring and M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) transactions. She also has extensive experience in advising on transfer pricing and tax proceedings.

In the 2020 and 2021 editions, she has been recognised for her work as a lawyer in the area of tax law by the association "Best Lawyers International".

Merecedes Nieto

Legal Area Manager

Carmen Gallardo

Head of Tax Area