Ivan has over 12 years of professional experience in taxation. Before joining Tax Compliance, he worked for Russian law firms and the tax authority in the field audit and control and analysis departments.
He specialises in tax consulting and providing comprehensive legal assistance on tax issues depending on the stage of tax problems:
• Preventive protection: identifying tax risks and minimising them by developing and implementing tax compliance systems, as well as conducting comprehensive due diligence.
• Pre-audit stage: developing legal positions and protecting clients' interests during pre-audit analysis, summons to commissions and working group meetings at tax authorities, etc.
• Audit stage: support for tax control measures in accordance with the developed strategy aimed at minimising the amounts of potential additional charges and penalties.
• Additional charges appeal stage: appealing tax claims at the pre-trial stage, as well as in courts of all instances.
He has extensive experience in representing the interests of major Russian and international companies from various sectors, including retail, construction and development, and IT, as well as in advising manufacturing, energy and service holding companies and groups of companies.
Among Ivan's significant completed projects are:
• Conducting a tax audit and restructuring of Russia's largest hotel chain, which led to an increase in tax efficiency of more than 4 billion roubles.
• Identification and elimination of tax risks in the structure of cross-border transactions of an international service holding company in excess of RUB 2 billion.
• Protecting the interests of Russia's largest manufacturing company in a dispute with the tax authorities involving more than 1.2 billion roubles in charges.
• Development of a comprehensive tax compliance system for a well-known restaurant chain, which minimised tax risks by more than RUB 1.5 billion.
Ivan has been recognised by Russian legal ratings (Pravo-300, Rossiyskaya Gazeta) as one of the best tax lawyers in the country.
He is a certified tax consultant and a member of the Chamber of Tax Consultants.
Regular speaker at industry tax conferences and webinars, author of expert articles and commentaries for business media.
Cases
Advising the client on personal income taxation of individuals working outside the Russian Federation
Successful defence of the Company's interests in arbitration court on the application of tax reconstruction
Analyzing the reporting procedure with respect to the fact of registration and profits of a controlled foreign company
Assessment of the risk of refusal to recognize expenses in the form of bonuses to employees and development of recommendations for improving the company's internal documents
Challenging the results of a field tax audit of a Russian water supply company
Advising a company on personal income tax consequences arising from the payment of remuneration from the sale of shares
Development of a property ownership structure located in the Russian Federation
Development of an appeal to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation regarding the need for catering companies to pay VAT
Developing a structure for acquiring shares in business entities in order to include the relevant costs in the cost of construction of future facilities
Analysis of tax consequences associated with the acquisition of a part of a share in its own authorized capital by an organization
Development of a legal position confirming the reality of relations between a leading Russian construction company and its counterparties, as well as the unlawful additional accrual of income tax
Advising a holding company in the hotel sector on restructuring of the group
Advising a large group of companies operating in the catering industry
Analyzing the possibility of applying the IT benefit by a company
Analysis of the possibility of applying the VAT exemption provided for catering establishments
