VEGAS LEX has
organized a roundtable on the main trends of taxation in Russia in 2016-2017*.
On December 23, 2016, VEGAS LEX hosted a roundtable, Main trends in taxation in Russia, for
major Russian and foreign companies.
Denis
Kozhevnikov, associate of VEGAS LEX Tax
practice, spoke about the most important litigations and trends in
jurisprudence in 2016. He used specific cases as examples to discuss important issues
including unjustified tax benefit, transfer-based pricing, taxation of
cross-border transactions, and Golden Parachutes.
Manager of Tax practice projects Yuriy Ivanovdiscussed taxpayer protection strategies in modern
realities, focusing on the criminal and property aspects of a chief executive's
liability in the sphere of tax relations. He cited specific disputes that reflected
the specifics of prosecuting a chief executive for tax crimes and collecting
damages to compensate public and corporate losses. In addition, he covered issues
of a CEO’s secondary liability and specifics of fiscal accounting of some of
the company’s spending on its chief executive.
Other invited experts at the roundtable included Deputy
Head of the Department for Financial and Banking Legislation of the State Duma
Legal Department Olga Borzunova, Deputy
Head of the Federal Tax Service Control Department Konstantin Novosyolov and Deputy Head of the Legal Department of
the Interregional Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service No. 6 for Major
Taxpayers Kazbek Olisayev. During
the discussion, representatives of government agencies answered the
participants’ questions about changes in the legislation and planned
innovations.
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*The information partner
of the event is the Russian Guild of Managers and Developers.
For more
information on VEGAS LEX’s tax law projects, please gohere.