Erika Bañuelos

Practice Areas

Tax and Customs Law

Career

Attorney and Public Notary, National University of Asunción (Paraguay); Tax Specialist, American University (Paraguay); Diploma in Taxation, Inter-American Center of Tax and the Externado University (Colombia); Specialist in Administrative Law, University of Salamanca (Spain); Specialist in Tax Fraud and Money Laundering, University of Castilla la Mancha (Spain); LLM in International and European Tax Law, specializing in customs law and international trade, Maastricht University (The Netherlands).

Professional Memberships

Bar Association of Paraguay; International Bar Association; International Fiscal Association

Publications

She is the author of several articles discussing tax issues in specialized fiscal magazines.

She has collaborated writing the VAT Navigator content and the Paraguay Country Guide for Bloomberg – Tax & Accounting.

Since 2019 she is the Paraguayan correspondent of the IBFD regarding daily tax news. She wrote the Digital Tax Monitor Chapter of Paraguay.

Personal

She has several years of experience providing consulting services in tax and customs matters to numerous multinational companies and business groups from different sectors. Her working experience as a consultant is mainly related to tax planning on various issues connected with national and international matters. Her previous professional experience includes participating as a litigator against the tax authorities in landmark tax refund cases.