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Investment & Legal Framework
DELOITTE
Rafael Muñoz
President
Tulcan 803 y Av. 9 de Octubre
Guayaquil-Ecuador
Tel: +593 4 245 2770
www.deloitte.com.ec
Activity: Consulting & Audit
Date of creation: 1966
Employees: 350
Turnover: $ 15M
“Deloitte” is the brand under which tens of thousands
of dedicated professionals in independent firms
throughout the world collaborate to provide audit,
consulting, financial advisory, risk management,
and tax services to selected clients. These firms
are members of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
(DTTL), a UK private company limited by guarantee.
Each member firm provides services in a particular
geographic area and is subject to the laws and
professional regulations of the particular country or
countries in which it operates.
Deloitte member firms offer clients a broad range of
audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk, and tax ser-
vices. Its client service teams, under the leadership
of a Lead Client Service Partner, help create pow-
erful business solutions for organizations operating
anywhere in the world.
The newest client service offering: As One, the
discipline of collective leadership, aims to help
managers solve a specific and timeless leadership
challenge—how to get large numbers of individuals
working together to achieve a shared purpose.
In Ecuador, Deloitte is the biggest and the most
important multinational consulting company. It of-
fers 250 different products, divided in 4 areas, with
60% of its business in Quito, 35% in Guayaquil and
5% in the rest of the country. It has experienced a
substantial growth in the region and currently has a
consolidated portfolio of important clients, both multi-
national companies and local ones. The company is
open to new opportunities in Ecuador, a country with
such an important business potential.
“We are present in Ecuador since 1966 serving the
largest companies in the country and being the No.
1 consultant company in Ecuador.”
Rafael Muñoz
Main partner of Deloitte
10 de Agosto y Luis Tufiño, Quito- Ecuador
Tel: +593 2 247 1282
www.sri.gob.ec
Activity: Tax collection
Date of Creation: January 2000
The Internal Revenue Service (SRI) is a technical
and autonomous entity which is responsible for
collecting domestic taxes established by law through
the application of existing legislation. Its purpose is
to consolidate the tax culture in the country in order
to consistently increase voluntary compliance with
tax obligations by taxpayers.
Their compromise is to promote and enforce
compliance with tax obligations in the context of
ethical and legal principles, to ensure effective fund
to promote social cohesion.
Their aim is to be an institution that is trusted and
of social recognition for doing good to the country.
Doing good to the country because of their
transparency, modernity, closeness and re-
spect for the rights of citizens and taxpayers.
Doing good to the country because they have com-
petent staff, honest, committed and motivated.
Doing good to the country by the tax management,
significantly reducing evasion, avoidance and tax
evasion.
The SRI has national coverage with offices in all
provinces.
The SRI is responsible for implementing the
country’s tax policy in regard to domestic taxes.
To do this you have the following powers:
• Identify, collect and control internal taxation
• Publicize and provide training to the taxpayer on
their tax obligations
• Prepare studies tax reform legislation
• Sanction
Taxes administered and collected by the IRS are:
• Income Tax
• Value Added Tax
• Special Consumption Tax
• Property Tax Vehicle
“The institutional mission of SRI goes beyond being
a tax collection agency and tries to become the
institution responsible to promote, stimulate and
disseminate fiscal citizenship building.”
Carlos Marx Carrasco
President of SRI