Tax law and tax disputes

Pepeliaev Group has made striking progress in the Chambers Europe 2018 rankings. In Restructuring/Insolvency: Litigation Pepeliaev Group has risen to Band 3 skipping one band as compared with the last year’s results. In addition, Yulia Litovtseva, Partner and Head of the Bankruptcy and Anti-Crisis Protection of Business Practice, has shown an improvement of her own, rising to Band 4 in individual rankings. 

Lawyers of Pepeliaev Group successfully defended the client, a large building contractor, before the Russian Supreme Court. 

Experts of law firm Pepeliaev Group have participated in the development of content for the Business Environment platform the establishment of which has been initiated by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Sberbank PJSC. The platform will accumulate services which will be useful for small and medium enterprises. The knowledge base of the platform will cover all topics of a business cycle, from formation to the liquidation of a company.

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have successfully defended a client in a dispute with a tax authority in which the company had allegedly committed an offence by booking, for profit tax purposes, expenses incurred in previous years. The taxpayer wrote off accounts receivable for which the limitation period had expired several years before. 

In a dispute with the tax authority, lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s tax practice successfully defended the interests of a company that owns a building which is an architectural monument of national significance in St Petersburg. 

Lawyers from Pepeliaev Group’s tax practice successfully defended the interests of a credit institution in a dispute with the tax authority. State commercial courts of three levels had upheld the lawfulness of the decision of the tax authority to additionally assess profit tax in connection with payroll costs being excluded from expenses when employees had been dismissed by agreement of the parties. The bank’s appeal to the Supreme Court was subsequently referred to the Judicial Board for Economic Disputes. 

The foremost international directories of tax firms, World Tax and World Transfer Pricing, have confirmed that Pepeliaev Group remains the leading law firm on the Russian market (Tier 1). 

On 6 October, Tax Law. The Special Part, a textbook for university students edited by Sergey Pepeliaev, was released for sale. The textbook is a continuation of the first volume of the textbook Tax Law, which was republished in 2015. 

Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers have been included in the Indirect Tax Leaders 2017 directory compiled by the International Tax Review journal. Pepeliaev Group’s senior partners Rustem Ahmetshin and Andrey Nikonov, partner Andrey Tereschenko and senior associate Petr Popov were among the leaders in indirect tax. 

Pepeliaev Group has been selected to advise Gazprom PJSC; it won in a public tender for advisory services in relation to the taxation of profit generated by the controlled foreign companies of the Gazprom group.