ABELLA, María Del Pilar
Associate, Member since 2001
mpabella@lewinywills.com

Education

• Universidad de Salamanca, Spain: Attendant to the Taxation Law program; PhD Candidate, 2000.
• Centro Inter Americano de Estudios Tributarios CIET, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Excise Taxation, October, 1988.
• Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Law School:
  • Administrative Law Masters Program, 1983
  • Attorney-at-Law, 1982.

Professional Experience

• LEWIN & WILS ABOGADOS. Associate since August 2001, professional practice in the area of Taxation Law.
• Colombian Institute of Taxation Law, Academic Coordinator, September 1998 through June 2001.
• Asociación Nacional de Industriales, ANDI. Legal Vice-Presidency, Counsel to the Taxation Division. September 1994 through August, 1998.
• Gómez Pinzón & Asociados and Brigard & Urrutia Abogados. Counsel to the Taxation Division. August 1992 through July 1994
• National Tax and Customs Direction (DIAN): Head, Division on Taxation Doctrine - Legal Sub-division; Counsel to the Division on Taxation Research; Attorney-in-Fact before the Supreme Court of Justice. January, 1986 through June, 1992.

Academic Activities

• Universidad del Rosario, Professor, Taxation Law Postgraduate Program.

Publications

• “El efecto en general de los conceptos de la DIAN y su utilización como fuente reguladora”, in the work “Contemporaneous Taxation Law Issues”, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, 2006.
• “Aspectos tributarios de la vinculación económica y de los grupos empresariales”, Report at the XXIX Colombian Cycle on Taxation Law, ICDT, Cartagena, 2005.
• “Requisitos de las deducciones en el impuesto sobre la renta”, in the compilation of “Council of State - Taxation Jurisprudence”, ICDT, Bogotá, 2004.

Languages

• Spanish, English.