FBK Legal Participates in Tax and Finance Committee at Centre for Eurasian Cooperation

On 10 April 2025, a meeting of the Tax and Finance Committee was held in Moscow at the Center for Eurasian Cooperation.

Maria Semenova, Director of the Transaction Tax Structuring Department at FBK Legal, gave a speech on the tax implications of long-term incentive programmes for key personnel.

In her speech, Maria addressed practical challenges faced by groups of companies when structuring long-term employee incentive programmes within the Russian legal framework. Key issues included income tax risks associated with claiming deductions for expenses related to funding such programmes, as well as losses arising from the implementation of incentive schemes.