Carlos Serrano Palacio

Carlos is a partner at Deloitte Spain who specialises in international taxation, particularly in transfer pricing and tax controversy. He has worked as a tax inspector for the Spanish Tax Administration Agency for more than 20 years, becoming the deputy head of the International Taxation Office. Carlos has also been the coordinator of the Spanish advance pricing agreement programme and has been involved in mutual agreement negotiations, joint audits/multilateral controls, and transfer pricing audits.

He has a long international career as a Spanish delegate at various international organisations (the OECD, the EU, the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations, and the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations), including his participation in OECD Working Party No. 6 on the Taxation of Multinational Enterprises for several years.

Carlos’s professional work has been combined with teaching and dissemination activity in various courses, seminars, talks, and colloquia on international taxation.