Our Tax practice is the largest in Russia, consisting of 400 highly professional Russian and Western tax specialists. Our solutions in taxation are based on the extensive knowledge and experience of our specialists as well as on our own methodologies.
We are organised around different aspects of tax and law, reflecting the need for in-depth specialist knowledge in each key area. But in many cases, knowledge of tax and law must be embedded in a thorough understanding of the specific needs of individual industry sectors. This is why we develop specialized teams for individual groups of industries. This allows us to rapidly assemble a team possessing the required tax and legal skills combined with relevant industry knowledge for any given assignment. As a result, we speak our clients’ language, and can meet their requirements through understanding their overall business situation, not just narrow individual issues.
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides the following Tax Services:
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PwC solutions |
| Track legislation changes |
- Track the latest and anticipated changes to the Russian tax legislation, tax administration and control issues, and tax inspection procedures in order to help you assess their impact on your business.
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| Tax planning |
- Assist in tax compliance and help you structure current tax operations of your business;
- Development of a tax strategy for a particular company and holding structures as a whole.
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| Global Compliance Services |
- Assess, manage, monitor and report global and local tax risks.
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| Tax aspects of M&A |
- Structure acquisitions to help optimise post-deal benefits;
- Carry out pre-acquisition due diligence, manage transaction risks and advise on necessary restructuring and reforms;
- Promote tax-efficient deal structuring;
- Foster post-deal integration;
- Acquisition structures and LBO modelling for private equity.
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| International tax structuring |
- Choose tax-efficient ownership structures;
- Structure profit repatriation and loss utilization;
- Structure inbound and outbound investment;
- Find cross-border financing and treasury solutions;
- Choose tax-efficient locations for intellectual property and other intangible assets;
- Foster tax-efficient supply chain and shared services.
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| Transfer pricing |
- Structure transactions with intellectual property;
- Structure cost sharing agreements relating to Head Office management services for subsidiaries and other intra-group services;
- Justify pricing methodology and arm’s-length nature of intra-company charges;
- Recommend improvements to existing pricing policies.
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| Indirect tax and customs |
- Structure efficient inbound investments;
- Estimate VAT cash flows over the life of a project.
- Speed up recovery for export transactions;
- Manage VAT charged to group companies on cross-border recharges;
- Customs diagnostics of business entities, advice on risk management; identify cost-cutting opportunities;
- Support on clearance and dispute resolution, assist in obtaining customs exemptions, permissions, clarifications and rulings;
- Improve tax-efficiency and cost reduction and boosting cash-flow throughout the international logistics system.
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| Personal income tax management and reporting |
- Individual tax planning including international tax advice and compliance assistance;
- Tax effective structuring of remuneration packages;
- Development of long term incentive plans as well as corporate
- Pension plans from HR, tax and legal perspectives.
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| Tax disputes resolution |
- Pre-trial resolution of tax disputes and in-court settlement of tax disputes;
- Monitoring the enforcement of arbitrazh court rulings;
- Consultation during criminal proceedings for tax crimes.
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