Zauri has over 5 years of professional experience in the field of taxation. He graduated from Kutafin Moscow State Law University with a bachelor's degree in Financial and Banking Law and from the National Research University Higher School of Economics with a master's degree in Financial, Tax and Customs Law. Before joining Tax Compliance, he worked at a BIG-4 company in the tax dispute resolution group.
He specialises in representing clients in tax and customs disputes at the judicial and pre-judicial stages, as well as providing support during desk and field tax audits.
Among Zaur's significant projects are:
• Supporting a client in a pre-trial appeal against the results of a tax audit on the legality of accounting for expenses and applying VAT deductions for transactions with "technical" companies.
• Advising an automotive distributor on the VAT treatment of bonuses paid to car dealers.
• Representing a client in a pre-trial settlement of a dispute with the tax authorities over the accounting of a multi-billion dollar loss arising from bond purchases and currency and credit swaps.
• Representing a client in a dispute with the customs authority over the inclusion in the customs value of goods of licence fees paid to a related party, with an additional charge of more than RUB 400 million.
Participant and speaker at conferences organised by Pravo.ru.
