Conape Auditoria Tributaria

Conape Auditoria Tributaria is a Brazilian tax consultancy specialising in the recovery of tax credits. It was founded by Valdir Campos Costa, an accountant, auditor and tax specialist who formerly held posts at IBRACON, CRC-SP and SESCON SP, and it has been in the field for 34 years. The firm uses its own software to calculate credits and produce the reports tax authorities require.

What Conape Auditoria Tributaria does

• ICMS-SP accumulated credit: calculation, reports and electronic files for São Paulo accumulated ICMS credit and for credits from tax substitution sales.
• ICMS exclusion from PIS and COFINS: technical accounting reports that let a company claim the credit with the federal revenue service or sell it on.
• Reintegra: recovery of residual taxes on the production of exported goods.
• Accounting review and tax audit: checking past years' records for legitimate credits that went unused.
• CIAP credits: working out ICMS credit on fixed assets and posting it in SPED, including for the last five years.

Customers and markets

Industrial, commercial and service companies taxed under the Lucro Real and Lucro Presumido regimes.

Key facts

• Based in: Brazil
• Experience: 34 years
• Founder: Valdir Campos Costa
• Main state focus: São Paulo ICMS rules