Representation of Interests in Tax Disputes

Energy Consulting represents taxpayers’ interests when resolving various tax disputes in tax authorities and courts.

Profound elaboration of the norms and standards of the applicable tax law based upon the understanding and interpretation of the major taxation principles to the examined cases, which allows ensuring the favorable outcome of proceedings for taxpayers even in cases of impossibility to achieve the literal interpretation of the specific norms and regulations is typical of the services rendered by the Energy Consulting lawyers. When working on the case, they analyze the arbitration practice in disputable issues and provide the complete and full-scale elaboration of the evidence base.

The lawyers of Energy Consulting have a significant experience of successful resolution of tax disputes in a wide spectrum of issues. More specifically, we have lately represented our customers’ interests in he issues related to the application of a VAT 10% interest rate, for the sales of food products (bullion cubes), the application of VAT tax deductions during the construction of plants, office buildings, construction of an oil exploration well which turned out to be non-productive (dry); when performing leasing operations, including those for leaseback contracts, inclusions into the tax basis with the VAT cost of promotional and advertising materials, acknowledgment of various types of costs (payments for managerial services, commodity supply fees to new sales networks, organization costs for distributors’ trips to Formula-1, etc) as economically feasible for taxation purposes.

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