Konnov & Sozanovsky’s tax lawyers provide clients with innovative and practical tax advice at exceptional levels of performance. Our practice combines specialists from Ukraine, Russia, Cyprus and England with the ability to understand matters that have an international element. We offer seamless services in conjunction with our colleagues from other practice areas. When rendering our services we always proceed from clients’ individual requirements and a regard for the key aspects of their business, tax position, economic activity, and structure of the business both inside and outside the jurisdiction.

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

• Legal support during tax inspections
• Representation of clients in tax disputes with tax authorities (dispute resolution)
• Tax litigation

Income Tax

We offer advice on:

• particularities of taxation of foreign companies and their representative offices in Ukraine
• the application of international tax treaties
• issues involving all kinds of deals and transactions

Private Client Tax Issues

• Private tax planning
• Filing of tax returns

Tax Planning

• Corporate structuring and restructuring for clients operating in a wide range of industry sectors
• Deal structuring - drafting of tax efficient structures for different types of transactions
• Tax planning inside and outside the jurisdiction
• Implementation of the developed structures

VAT

• Advising clients on collection of VAT and other indirect taxes on the territory of Ukraine
• Advising on taxation of export and import transactions
• Servicing VAT refund issues

During 2006 and 2007, Konnov & Sozanovsky’s lawyers were engaged in a number of various projects such as:

• advising of advertising holding on the questions of tax efficient structure of group of companies, working out of corporate structure;
• advising of media holding on the question of tax efficient structure, working out of restructuring scheme;
• legal supporting of business restructuring process in the Ukrainian industrial holding;
• legal supporting of business restructuring process in the Ukrainian movie production holding;
• working out of restructuring scheme for Ukrainian industrial holding, leading alcohol producers;
• advising of construction holding on the questions of tax efficient structure of group of companies;
• advising of retail holding on the questions of tax efficient structure of group of companies;
• advising of industrial holding in the mining area on the question of tax efficient tax and corporate structure of group of companies;
• advising real estate holding on the question of tax efficient tax and corporate structure of group of companies;
• developing tax efficient and corporate structure for the producer of veterinary drugs;
• developing tax efficient structures for construction companies using financial vehicles such as investment fund, investment certificates, bonds, joint ventures etc.;
• developing tax efficient and corporate structure for purchasing of Ukrainian companies and transferring of assets in different sectors of economy.

Tax Law (PDF)