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On behalf of the entire Forte Tax & Law team, I would like to wish you a happy New Year and a great start to the new business season! We hope that 2018 will be filled with success and achievements. To this end, we have put together a brief overview of the most important changes to be introduced to Russian laws so that you can be forewarned, and thereby forearmed, when they come into force in 2018.
Read MoreThe list of state inspections scheduled for 2018 has now been published. If your company happens to be in this list of labor inspections, you will be pleased to know that from July 01, 2018 onwards the State Labor Inspectorate will conduct scheduled inspections in a new way, i.e. by using checklists. Certain employers will be subject to this new procedure as early as January 01, 2018.
Read MoreAnton spoke about tax risk succession in M&A transactions (especially asset deals)
Read MoreAn appellate court has ruled on a second court case of transfer pricing[1]. The conclusions of this high-profile case will affect all taxpayers who have entered into cross-border transactions with related parties. This case confirms that it is necessary to thoroughly justify why a transfer pricing method has been selected over another and clearly specify the reasons for rejecting the other methods. This case also shows that approaches traditionally used to justify the selection of a certain transfer pricing method may miss the mark.
Read MoreSt. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA) Finance Committee held an event on Thursday November 16, 2017 to discuss the topic of General Director vs. Auditor. Thirty people, including consultants and business representatives, took part in this unusual meeting which was held in a kind of debate.
Read MoreThe Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has been playing an important and very active role in state regulation for a while. Many law firms have set up a separate practice offering special services for liaising with this particular state authority, and others have filled this niche by specializing in resolving issues with the FAS. Anton Kabakov, Partner at Forte Tax &Law, agrees that the FAS has become more active and also talked with Delovoy Peterburg about the demand for antimonopoly compliance from European businesses.
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It will be difficult from 2018 onwards to transfer any property rights to a daughter (subsidiary) company without paying profit tax. It will also become more difficult to increase the net assets of subsidiaries
Read MoreThis seminar was held on October 11, 2017 in Helsinki
Read MoreWith 60% of the votes, our esteemed senior associate Anna Yakovleva ended up among the four elected chairmen.
Read MoreAnton talked in great detail about the issues related to the introduction in the Tax Code of provisions on unjustified tax benefits and also outlined the clearly contentious side of these changes.
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