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Structure diagnostic
We review the entity, activities, flows, and obligations: which tax it pays, where, and with what support. Income, VAT, withholding, net worth, and local taxes.
Tax Planning · Companies in Colombia
Tax planning for companies in Colombia.
Within the law, with former DIAN judgment.
Tax planning puts in order, within the statute, how your company is structured and how it is taxed before the DIAN asks. Ligal designs the strategy and documents it to withstand an audit: every decision with its own support.
Companies and SMEsStrategy + defenseColombia · BogotáFormer DIAN leadership
Also on WhatsApp: +57 319 272 9164. Bogotá · Calle 99 7A-51, Office 206. No brochure-style average savings.
What it is
Decide with the statute in hand, before filing.
Tax planning is the legal review of how your company is taxed: the corporate structure, the taxes that apply (income, VAT, withholding, net worth, local taxes), the possible regimes and benefits, and the documentary support behind each criterion. It is not hiding taxes: it is deciding before filing, with the statute in hand.
The difference with routine compliance lies in the evidence. Every decision the company makes today will show up tomorrow in a return, and returns can be audited. That is why the planning we do thinks, from day one, about how a DIAN requirement will be answered.
Signs it pays off for you
- The effective tax burden has grown and nobody explains why.
- You are about to reorganize partners, assets, seat, or operations.
- A regime or benefit applies and you do not know whether you meet the conditions.
- The accountant files on time, but nobody discusses the criteria.
- The law changed and last year's scheme is out of date.
- There are cross-border operations or investors demanding structure.
What Ligal does
Strategy today and defense tomorrow. The same firm.
The director is Juan Santiago Rodríguez Prieto, a tax attorney and former DIAN official. Tax strategy is designed knowing how the audit looks at it, not in a theoretical vacuum.
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Strategy within the statute
Applicable regimes and benefits, formalizing the criteria, and an obligations calendar. No structures without economic substance and no brochure savings percentages.
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Documentation that holds up
Every decision with its own file: contracts, supporting documents, and a memo of the criterion. What is documented can be defended; what is not ends up in a statement of charges.
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Backup if the DIAN asks
If a requirement or an assessment comes later, the same firm defends: reply, appeals and, if needed, litigation. Planning and defense are not outsourced separately.
What we do not do
There are limits. Saying them is part of the craft.
We do not design structures without economic substance
Structures that do not respond to a real business reason end up in a statement of charges. The ones that do have it must be documented rigorously.
We do not promise savings percentages
Every company has its own figures, activity, and applicable statute. The proposal comes out of the diagnostic, not out of a marketing average.
We do not leave defense out of the plan
Planning that does not think about the later audit is incomplete. Strategy and defense travel together in the same firm.
Strategy and operations, separate
The attorney sets the criterion. The accountant keeps the books.
Tax strategy is defined and defended by LIGAL Abogados. The day-to-day accounting operation (books, payroll, routine returns, statutory audit) can be run by LIGAL Auditores, our independent public accounting practice under Law 43 of 1990. Two practices, coordinated, each with its own professional rules.
Already have a trusted accountant? They stay. We work with them, not against them.
Director
Juan Santiago Rodríguez Prieto
Tax attorney · Former DIAN
- Calle 99 7A-51, Office 206, Bogotá
- +57 319 272 9164
- Free diagnostic within 48 business hours
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How it starts
Diagnostic. Free. Within 48 business hours.
Requesting it is free. Within 48 business hours you get the tax map and the proposal. Use the form on this page or open the diagnostic.
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TodayRequest the diagnostic
NIT, activity, current structure, and the decision ahead (reorganize, grow, sell, bring in investors). Free.
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48 business hoursTax map
Where the burden sits, which regime applies, which obligations are running, and which criteria lack documentation. Within 48 business hours.
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After the diagnosticProposal and plan
Scope, priorities, and a closed fee. If day-to-day accounting is involved, it is coordinated with LIGAL Auditores.
FAQ
Tax planning, without small print
It is the legal review of how the company is taxed: corporate structure, applicable taxes, regimes and benefits, and the documentary support behind each criterion. It is done before filing and within the law, so that decisions withstand a later audit.
Evasion breaks the statute. Planning uses the statute: structures that exist, with their conditions met and their economic substance, documented. The litmus test is simple: whatever cannot withstand a DIAN requirement is not tax planning.
When the structure changes or partners or investors come in, when the effective burden jumps without explanation, when reforms moved the statute, or when the accountant files on time but nobody discusses the criteria. If a requirement is already on top of you, the case is defended first; planning comes after.
Income tax, VAT, withholding at source, net worth tax, ICA, and other levies that apply by activity and municipality, plus formal and reporting obligations. Scope is defined in the diagnostic according to the company's real operations.
In that case order matters: the defense of the pending act is organized first (reply, appeal, or litigation). Planning of the operation is done afterwards, carefully, so as not to expose the pending case.
Yes, in the firm's estate planning practice: holdings, trusts, succession, and family wealth structure, coordinated with the company's tax planning. Every structure is documented with its economic substance.
The proposal comes after the diagnostic, according to the size of the operation and the scope. We do not publish price lists or average savings. The fee is closed in writing.
Yes. The office is at Calle 99 7A-51, Office 206, Bogotá, and the published phone is +57 319 272 9164 (Juan Santiago Rodríguez Prieto, director). We advise companies across Colombia.
Diagnostic
Tell us about the operation. The map comes after.
Free. Reply within 48 business hours. Attach the activity, the NIT, and the decision ahead for the company. You can also write on WhatsApp or book with the director.