Cases

Cases

  • Production Successfully
    Assistance in granting tax deferrals (installments)

    Registration of installments for a manufacturer of construction materials

    • Employee involved

      Alexey Stanchin

    • Process description

      Following a tax audit, the Inspectorate sent the taxpayer a demand for payment of arrears. The company had no possibility to repay this amount in a lump sum due to the threat of bankruptcy.

    • Result

      Tax Compliance experts on behalf of the taxpayer issued an application for installment payment for 3 years in equal installments. Despite the expiration of the deadlines for receiving installments, the application was granted. In the process, a "mixed" option of securing the fulfillment of the tax obligation was used. The installment itself was granted for the longest possible period of time.

  • energy Successfully
    Legal support

    Legal support of an acquisition of assets in India

    • Employees involved

      Mikhail Begunov, Nikita Zharov

    • Process description

      The client (mainland - a company in the UAE) was interested in legal support of an acquisition of assets in India. The TC team acted as a legal advisor within the framework of the project on the UAE side.

    • Result

      Our experts accompanied the client in the process of obtaining authorization from the UAE governmental authorities for the transaction and assisted him in preparing an agreement for the acquisition of an asset in India.

  • Retail Successfully
    Tax-support

    Analysis of tax risks associated with the application of a reduced VAT rate on the sale of certain goods

    • Employees involved

      Mikhail Begunov, Nikita Zharov

    • Process description

      The client purchases certain goods from suppliers, on the sale of which the suppliers apply a reduced rate of VAT. The client subsequently sells these goods as part of its own business activities, subjecting them to a VAT rate of 20%.

      The client was interested in analysing the possibility of applying a reduced VAT rate when selling the said goods, as well as the mandatory legal requirements that the client needs to comply with in order to achieve the said objective.

    • Result

      As a result of the project, the Tax Compliance team managed to assess tax risks associated with the application of the reduced VAT rate for the Client and to suggest ways to minimize them.

      In particular, in the course of the project Tax Compliance specialists: (1) analyzed documentation relating to the products sold by the client; (2) developed proposals on changing the document flow in order to apply the reduced VAT rate.

  • IT Successfully
    Tax support for IT-business

    • Employees involved

      Mikhail Begunov, Nikita Zharov

    • Process description

      A client provides IT services for a parent company. The company believed that the IT services provided to the parent organisation may not comply with the provisions of the Russian Tax Code for the application of tax exemptions. The company contacted Tax Compliance in order to assess the possibility to apply tax exemptions.

    • Result

      The Tax Compliance team as a result of the project: (1) analysed the client's intercompany agreements to determine the validity of tax exemptions for IT companies; (2) developed proposals to adjust agreements and primary documentation to ensure their compliance with tax legislation.

  • Construction 278 million ₽
    Court settlement of tax disputes

    Proved in the trial court that the engineering company was not a beneficiary of the scheme

    • Employee involved

      Alexey Stanchin

    • Process description

      In the course of an on-site tax audit, the tax authority came to the conclusion that the taxpayer had artificially included organisations that had attracted dishonest counterparties. In particular, the tax authority believed that: (1) the taxpayer artificially included in the structure of economic relations organisations that attracted dishonest counterparties (2) the counterparties were actually created for the Company's needs to perform work; In connection with the above, the taxpayer was requested to prepare a legal position confirming the company's good faith. The Tax Compliance team helped the client to develop a legal position confirming: (1) the absence of controllability between the organisation and the counterparties; (2) the tax saving scheme belongs to another counterparty.

    • Result

      The court accepted the taxpayer's arguments. Tax claims in the amount of 278 million roubles were reduced in full as a result of the project, which is 100% of the tax authority's original claim.