Javier Povo Martín

Practice Areas

Tax

Private Client & Family Office

Career

Javier is a partner in Pérez-Llorca's Tax practice. Specialised in tax litigation and proceedings, he has 17 years of experience with Spanish and international law firms.

Javier has extensive experience in advising multinational companies and institutions on their verification and investigation procedures, in economic-administrative and judicial proceedings.

In addition, he specialises in administrative proceedings (e.g. tax enforcement and review, ordinary and extraordinary) and tax litigation, leading legal and tax advice to high value-added clients (e.g. national and international family offices, institutional clients and start-ups, among others), in order to avoid conflicts with the tax authorities and manage risk. He also provides legal assistance and defends clients during verification and investigation procedures, economic-administrative proceedings and judicial proceedings (High Courts of Justice, the National High Court and the Supreme Court).

Likewise, he assists and leads the legal defence during administrative proceedings relating to conflicts of residence before public administrations, both national and international. Elsewhere, he manages the taxation of large estates and private clients (direct and indirect taxation) from these perspectives.

Professional Memberships

The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).

-Spanish Association of Tax Advisors' Expert Group on Rights and Guarantees and of the Central Zone' Tax Proceedings Group.

Publications

He has contributed to publications in his area of expertise, including the following: Chambers Global Practice Guides (Tax Controversy 2022, 2021 and 2020 and Private Wealth 2021, 2020 and 2019); Memento Práctico Francis Lefebvre Relaciones Laborales Especiales 2009-2010 and “La familia ante el derecho tributario” by Editorial Comares, Volume VII of the Tratado de Derecho de la Familia. First and Second Edition.

Personal

He has been a member of the Expert Group on Rights and Guarantees of the Spanish Association of Tax Advisors and of the Tax Proceedings Group of the Zona Centro district.

Regular lecturer/speaker on highly specialised courses at the Centro de Estudios Financieros and at the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid-UDIMA, and speaker in 2022 for the Master’s Degree in Tax Consultancy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid’s School of Legal Practice. He has been a member of Taxlandia, an online tax and fiscal commentary blog.