Tax Forum

Businesses are currently operating in a tight regulatory framework. Today it is impossible to underestimate the tax risks for certain kinds of activities and assets, as they can have very unpleasant consequences for businesses. The Moscow Times Tax Forum will consider the most pressing tax issues that will help your company's work in the following year.
The forum will bring together high-level experts in corporate taxation from Russia, CIS and other countries to discuss current approaches to long-term corporate development of tax strategies, enforcement of legislative changes and minimization of tax risks.

PROGRAM:

9:00 to 9:30 Registration, Coffee

9:30 to 11:00 Tax planning in 2011. ADJUSTING TAX STRATEGIES

• Possible strategies for managing the tax costs of business

• New in taxation in 2011

• Building an effective tax strategy in line with recent changes in tax legislation

• Minimizing the tax risks associated with recent changes in legislation

• Assessment of the current practice of transfer pricing in a company

Speakers from Ernst & Young

11:00 to 11:20 COFFEE BREAK

11:20 to 12:50 Tax Disputes

• Arbitration Practice 2010: Analysis of victories and defeats

• Tax Practice 2010: The prosecution of a tax audit

Speakers from FBK Law

12:50 to 13:45 LUNCH

13:45 to 15:15 Latest trends in Russian judicial practice

• Reducing the amount of litigation as a result of compulsory pre-trial dispute settlement

procedures and new rules for declaring VAT

• Increasing the share of property claims in the total number of tax disputes

• Further resolution of disputes in the application of tax legislation, Evgeny Timofeev, partner and co-head of the Global Tax Practice, Salans

15:15 to 15:30 COFFEE BREAK

15:30 to 17:00 PROTECTION OF TAXPAYERS

• Interaction between tax authorities conducting tax control measures

• Tax hit parade: the best case studies from practitioners

17:00 BUFFET

Address: Marriott Aurora Hotel (11/20 Ulitsa Petrovka).

Payment: 16 000 rubles + VAT

Regarding conference agenda please contact Alexey Otradnov. 

Regarding sponsorship opportunitites please contact Olga Makarova or Mikhail Levikov.

Regarding information support and registration please contact Elena Artemieva.

Telephone: 7 495 234 3223