Ms Giuliana Polacco > Bird & Bird > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile
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VIA BORGOGNA 8
20122 MILANO
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Ms Giuliana Polacco
Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Giuliana is an international tax lawyer, focusing on tax disputes, with almost 30 years of experience working for multinational groups.
She focuses on tax disputes covering a wide range of matters, including corporate income tax, withholding taxes, VAT and custom duties. She assists clients in all phases of tax disputes, including the preparation for tax audits, support during tax audits, assistance during the entire litigation phase. This includes criminal tax law aspects, pleading before the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice, the negotiation of Advance Pricing Agreements with the Revenue Agency or the filing of Mutual Agreement Procedures.
Her main areas are the permanent establishment and transfer pricing audits, disallowment of management fees in intragroup transactions and European VAT law interpretation.
Her clients work in the digital, high tech, hardware and software industry, fashion, travel, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.
Languages
Italian, English, French
Memberships
Giuliana is part of the International Fiscal Association and regularly contributes with her articles to Bloomberg Tax. She participates to the International Tax Group at Italian AmCham.
Education
Education
University of Milan, Law Degree
Admissions
Italian Bar Association, 1994
Admitted to defend before the Supreme Court, 2004
Lawyer Rankings
Italy > Tax
Bird & Bird’s Italian tax department advises individuals and private companies across a wide range of the taxation life cycle, including planning, compliance and litigation. The group, which is led by Gaetano Salvioli, also has longstanding experience in international tax and transfer pricing.��Giuliana Polacco was made partner in May 2023.
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