A business decision is rarely just about tax.
It moves the legal side, the accounts, the credit and the assets. CLC exists so that those pieces are thought through by the same people, in the same conversation.
Book a session (opens in a new tab)It started out as just the tax side.
CLC was born out of tax and fiscal law work, which is still the centre of everything we do.
Whoever sorts out the tax structure wants to know whether it is worth opening the second company.
Whoever opens the second company is going to need credit.
Whoever grows starts to build assets and has to decide what to do with them.
Each answer opened the next one. Each area came in when a client needed it.
Four things that do not change.
We look at your case as a whole before we answer.
We explain until there are no doubts left.
The paperwork stays on this side.
Within the law, always.
The tax answer that solves this year can close the door to credit next year. It is the second part that tends to be missing.
You leave every conversation knowing why that is the route. The decision is yours, and it is only really yours when you understand what is behind it.
Contacts, deadlines, forms, documents. You leave every conversation with options on the table, not with homework.
There is almost always a lawful route better than the one you have today, and that is the one we look for. No shortcut is worth what it costs afterwards.
A small team, with a single signature.
Accounting and compliance are carried out by a dedicated team, inside the standardised system and within the legal deadlines. The technical curation belongs to the founder, and what goes out goes out with her reading on top.
When your company operates outside Portugal, we coordinate whoever executes locally. The reading of your case is still done from the same place.
That is what makes this a department, and not a set of suppliers who have never met.
Cátia Lopes Cardoso
Lawyer. Law degree, specialising in tax and fiscal law.
I have lived in seven countries, and I always reached the same conclusion: planning is what separates those who grow from those who merely invoice. I created CLC because I believe in the power of financial literacy, personal and corporate.
Married, mother of two boys.
Now you know who we are.
What is missing is the part that matters, which is your case. One session, at no cost and with no commitment.
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