Anastasia has over 5 years of professional experience in tax consulting. She graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from the Faculty of Law at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before joining Tax Compliance, she worked at a BIG-4 company in the tax dispute resolution group.
She specialises in supporting companies in pre-audit analysis and tax audits, representing clients' interests in pre-trial and judicial settlement of disputes with tax authorities. She advises IT companies on tax structuring issues, including taxation of mining activities.
Anastasia's significant projects include:
• Supporting a client in the retail sector during an on-site tax audit led to a reduction in the tax authority's claims regarding advertising expenses in the amount of 200 million roubles.
• Analysis of tax risks associated with the separation of the Group's IT function into a separate legal entity.
• Supporting a large pharmaceutical distributor in a court settlement of a dispute with the tax authorities over the "fragmentation" of the business.
• Support in a desk-based tax audit of VAT returns for a large company in the catering sector, resulting in a reduction in claims by RUB 1.2 billion.
Participant and speaker at tax conferences. Regular author of expert articles and commentaries for business and professional media.
Cases
Support of pre-check analysis of a large retail chain on the issue of settlement of an unformed VAT deduction source
Preparing a legal position on royalty payments by a Russian organization to a foreign company
Representing a major pharmaceutical company in court on the issue of offsetting tax overpayments
Supporting a developer in an on-site audit on the taxation of interest payments to a Cypriot organisation and the legality of accounting for construction costs
Preparing a legal position on the issue of VAT treatment of intragroup services of a large catering chain
Judicial appeal of business "fragmentation" in the pharmaceutical industry
Assistance in obtaining state accreditation in the IT sector and analysing IT services for the purposes of applying tax incentives
Support in obtaining tax installments for an agricultural producer
Analysis of tax risks associated with the spin-off of an IT function in a company
Pre-trial appeal of decisions issued as a result of field tax audits of two group companies
