Taxation

The Tax practice at Sokolovskyi and Partners Law Firm — leaders since day one

Specialization

Tax consulting

• Clarification of the provisions of the tax law and accounting standards
• Tax planning and legal support during tax audits
• Responses to requests from fiscal authorities
• Consulting on transfer pricing issues
• Tax and bookkeeping accounting

Tax disputes

• Administrative and judicial appeals against tax assessment notices, appeals against refusal to register tax invoices
• Disputes over VAT refunds and refunds of overpayments to the tax budget; appeals against orders on tax audits
• Property seizure litigation
• Appeals against misbehaviour of tax officials
• Appeals against individual tax clarifications
• Preparation of complaints to the Business Ombudsman Council in Ukraine

International Tax Planning

• Creation of non-resident structures including foreign legal entities
• Structuring of business with Ukrainian and foreign entities to reduce tax payments (within the legal framework)
• Counselling on the DTAA application
• Counselling on tax law of foreign countries

Professional achievements of Sokolovskyi and Partners’ tax advisors

In 2017, Sokolovskyi and Partners was recognized as one of the top five law firms in Ukraine in the field of taxation according to the Legal Awards by Jurydychna Praktyka. For six years running, between 2010 and 2015, the firm was among the best in this category.

Since 2014, Legal 500 EMEA has annually ranked Sokolovskyi and Partners Law Firm as one of the best Ukrainian tax law firms. The experts of the directory noted that the quality of work of our team of tax advisors under the leadership of Vladyslav Sokolovskyi is of a consistently high level. They have noted that the firm managed to maintain the best combination of price and quality of its services. In 2016 and 2017, the rating experts included Vladyslav Sokolovskyi, the firm’s Managing Partner, into the category of Leading Individuals in Tax Practice.

In 2016 and 2017, Chambers Europe, the authoritative international legal directory, also ranked Sokolovskyi and Partners among the best Ukrainian tax law firms.

Since 2015, experts from the Ukrainian Law Firms directory have annually named Vladyslav Sokolovskyi, the the firm’s Managing Partner, and Nataliia Kurylenko, the firm’s Chief of Tax Law, among the well-known Ukrainian lawyers in the field of tax law.