Cooperation with unscrupulous counterparties leads to tax claims from the controlling authorities. On June 24, Alexey Stanchin, Head of Tax Compliance practice area, discussed ways of identifying risks before concluding a transaction and peculiarities of tax compliance. 

In his speech the expert told:

• Doubtful counterparty: what to pay attention to? 
• Proven "commercial prudence": what will give for the company?
• Formation of principles and stages of tax compliance when checking counterparties. 
• Approaches of tax authorities to proving counterparties' bad faith. 
• Why the presence of a counterparty verification system in a company does not always minimize this risk. 

In the second part, Alexey discussed current practice and answered questions from the event participants.