FBK Legal Holds Tax Workshop for its Clients

The Tax Litigation Department of FBK Legal has held a workshop covering tax results of the year. The firm's lawyers spoke about the recent tax events and changes that the companies will face in 2020.

Partner Galina Akchurina, Lawyers Artem Lomize, Mikhail Golovanev, Ekaterina Subbotina and Irina Fedoskina, all working in the Tax Litigation Department, shared their insights. Denis Saushkin, the Managing Partner of ZKS Attorneys, and Viktor Batsiev, the Head of the Tax Practice of the Podderzhka Project, traditionally contributed to the workshop.

Attendees learnt how court decisions made in 2019 will affect the transaction and business structuring, which court rulings are noteworthy for tax compliance purposes, which foreign currency regulation changes, including those related to repatriation of earnings, should be taken into account, how to provide for tax compliance to avoid risks, how to protect your business at the pre-audit stage, during tax audits and pre-trial appeal against tax claims. The speakers explained how to apply Article 54.1 of the Russian Tax Code and what is really happening in this field. In addition, the workshop addressed procedural know-hows of tax authorities that emerged in 2019 and violated the rights of taxpayers, and provided practical advice on how to derive benefit from such violations and avoid money losses.