Support of individual tax control measures

As part of the on-site tax audit, the tax authority seized the original documents and examined the premises in order to clarify the circumstances relevant to the completeness of the audit.

• Purpose

  Representation of client's interests in the framework of inspection of warehouse and office premises. Representation of the client during the seizure of original documents as part of an on-site tax audit.

• Employees involved

  Alexander Dmitriev, Yulia Pavlova

• Process description

  At the beginning of the working day the employees of the tax authority entered the territory of the enterprise and paralyzed the work, forbidding the employees to perform their official duties. Shipment and loading was suspended due to the inability to process the necessary documentation. An employee and lawyers of TC arrived to the place of tax control measures as soon as possible and ensured legal protection of the client, having prevented disruption of production and normal functioning of the client's warehouse.

• Result

  After a conversation with the tax officials, a mutual understanding was reached and the inspection of the premises together with the seizure of documents was carried out in stages, without interfering with the production processes of the enterprise.

• Employees involved

  Mikhail Begunov, Nikita Zharov

• Process description

  The tax authority sent a Russian branch of an international engineering group a request for documents and information. The auditors analyzed the intra-group transactions of the Russian branch. In order to assist in preparing a response to the request, the Client contacted Tax Compliance specialists.

• Result

  As a result of the project, the Tax Compliance team: (1) analyzed the documents and information requested by the tax authority; (2) drafted a timely response to the tax authority's request; (3) described the client's tax risks in relation to intra-group services.