The now well-established annual tax conference organized by SPIBA Finance Committee was held on March 05, 2019, and a whole host of business representatives (lawyers, CFOs, accountants and tax specialists) attended this event.

The beginning of spring was marked by the traditional Friday business breakfast of the Leaders Club which took place on March 01, 2019. Anton Kabakov, Partner at Forte Tax & Law, spoke at this event, providing the club members with key tax takeaways for 2018 and current trends in tax practice.

The annual Doing Business 2019: Training for Reform Report was published recently by the World Bank. Doing Business is a global survey and rating of countries ranked by the business conditions they offer.

Forte Tax & Law held last week its last seminar of the year on changes in Russian and international tax legislation which will come into force in 2019.

SPIBA held on Wednesday December 12, 2018 a Q&A session with St. Petersburg Finance Committee Chairman Alexey Alexeevich Korabelnikov which was moderated by Anton Kabakov, Partner at Forte Tax & Law.

The second online tax marathon was held on December 5-7, 2018 on the portal CFO Café. This event turned out to be massive with over 500 CFOs, chief accountants and corporate tax lawyers in attendance.

The results of the main Russian rating of law firms, Pravo.ru-300, were announced last Wednesday.  According to this rating, Forte Tax & Law is among the best law firms of the country in several areas of law.

Certification of workplaces was replaced in 2013 with special assessment of working conditions which is meant to fulfill the same functions, i.e. identify harmful and hazardous factors in the workplace and provide employees with means of protection against negative factors, as well as other guarantees and compensations.

A meeting of the Financial Club was held last Friday November 23, 2018 at the Moscow office of the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce.

Forte Tax & Law has hosted the next installment of its seminars on upcoming changes in domestic and international taxation. This time, the event was held on November 21, 2018 in the Embassy of Finland in Moscow.