Tax Law
In these latter days, our clients increasingly more often refer to us with issues related to either taxation or inspections carried by law enforcement authorities with regard to abiding the tax law.
Employees of the Company “Attorney Cherezov and Partners” have a wide experience of representing clients’ interests in disputes with tax authorities of various levels. The company’s partners started their business as lawyers when taxation system of Ukraine was on the stage of formation. Moreover, one of the company’s partners has worked for tax authorities for a considerable term of time occupying various positions and is well aware of both tax law and the work system of tax authority.
Due to introduction of the Tax Code of Ukraine, tax legal relations partially changed, which additionally stimulated tax authorities to carry out inspections and audits, and, as a rule, to collect funds to budget initiating at the same time criminal cases against officials of the companies-tax payers.
Furthermore, for the purposes of collecting money to the budget, tax authorities actively implement a range of patterns, in particular, acknowledgement of deals as invalid and collection of funds gained under such deals to the state budget; acknowledgement of deals as invalid due to the fact that one of the counterparts of such a deal is, in the tax authority’s opinion, a fictitious one; additional charge of value-added tax and penalties related to its non-payment due to the fact that, in the tax authority’s opinion, no counterpart paid VAT for the goods while its transfer from one counterpart to another one under the range of deals; annulment of VAT payer certificate due to absence of record in the state register which would confirm the company’s location and so on.
Well-thought defense by the company from such actions is very important as the company’s performance, both in terms of capability to carry on its operation and in terms of existing in general, immediately depends on correct response from the very beginning of communication with the tax authorities, correct execution of correct documents related to requests and inspections, appealing against the respective actions and documents, affirmation of own position in court.
Quite often, it is beyond the company’s scope to take timely and duly all the law-provided measures to protect the company with own efforts while communication with the tax authorities both in time and law aspects.
In such cases, specialists of our company are ready to provide you with the whole range of services related to protecting the company both while routine inspection carried out by the tax authorities and during their increased concern about your company.
As shown by the experience of considering cases in court instances, with well-thought approach to developing claims and petitions any dispute is won by tax-payers. Our specialists have a large number of disputes settled with tax authorities and appealed decisions of the tax authorities in their practice.
We also assist our clients in organizing safe conduct of business in terms of taxation. This means, in particular, competent drawing-up of agreements and development of schemes to perform various deals, including international contracts and deals implying obtaining a title for various facilities and businesses.
We perfectly know that the tax-payer’s ability to take advantage of his tax rights reduces tax obligations.