Partner Anatolii Menshikov takes a lead of Legal Alliance Company’s tax practice

Legal Alliance Company is pleased to announce that its PartnerAnatolii Menshikov assumed administration of the Company’s tax practice as of October 2014.

Anatoly Menshikov joined Legal Alliance Company in 1998 as Partner, and led the Crimean office till October 2014. In October 2014, Mr. Menshikov assumed administration of Legal Alliance Company’s tax practice in Kiev.

Mr. Menshikov held the position of senior lawyer, Chief State Tax Inspector of the Legal Support Division to the State Tax Administration of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea till 1998. Mr. Menshikov’s legal stance in tax disputes often affected the further development of law-enforcement practice in Ukraine.

The clients whose interests Mr. Menshikov represented include the leaders of industries, large enterprises and institutions: ‘MIG’ Russian Aircraft Corporation, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Works, Continent LLC, ‘Northern Lights’ Sanatorium, ‘Jupiter M’ insurance company etc.

Legal Alliance provides a wide range of tax services for national and foreign companies including, in particular:

• counseling on the taxation of domestic enterprises, as well as the taxation of foreign companies and their representative offices in Ukraine;
• preliminary assessment of tax consequences of prospective transactions and investment projects;
• tax planning and optimization of taxation in Ukraine;
• tax structuring of different types of transactions and operations;
• legal examination of the actions and decisions of tax authorities;
• application of international tax treaties;
• client representation in litigations and tax audits.

The projects that have been recently implemented in the taxation sector include:

• Counseling and full legal support of seven tax inspections for international pharmaceutical companies’ representative offices in Ukraine.
• Intermediation of an investment company’s interests in trial and appeal courts in cases relating to the abolition of tax charges, including within the criminal proceedings relating to additional taxation.
• Intermediation of the interests of a state-run enterprise operating in Ukrainian sector of specialized medicinal products, in the radioactive materials market, in cases of additional tax payments on the grounds of the supervisory authority’s suspicion of having links with a fictitious insurance company.
• Representation of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the extrajudicial dispute over the extension of the Budapest Convention on the boarding house belonging to the Client, analysis of the audit report, preparation of recommendations for changing the status of the boarding house and possible steps for the leveling of tax risks.
• Representation of a major financial services company in the case relating to surcharge of the amount tax obligation and penalties on income tax of enterprises and the value added tax.
• Carrying out a comprehensive legal inspection of the activities of an international pharmaceutical company’s representative office in Ukraine with a view of tax risks.