Tax

SDM Partners’ Tax team is a dedicated and market-leading team of tax specialists with many years of experience advising clients both in Ukraine and overseas. The members of our tax team are repeatedly recognized by experts, professional associations, and international ratings. Our firm works with our clients (whether a multinational corporation or an owner managed business) to understand their commercial objectives and then deliver creative tax solutions that are tailored to those objectives. We support our clients with effective and practice-proven solutions in all areas of tax which are based on industry-specific insight.

Services

  • Assistance during tax audits by tax officials
  • Legal tax due diligence
  • Obtaining official individual tax consultations
  • Representing clients in tax authorities
  • Tax advices on commercial issues
  • Tax Litigation
  • Tax planning, including international and bilateral treaties
  • Tax procedures and registration (obtainment tax certificates, VAT-payer status, simplified tax systems)
  • Tax-driven group restructuring advice

Projects

  • The team represented Ukrainian energy company before State Bureau of Investigation in connection with tax inspections
  • Advise on carryforward of a tax loss resulted from securities trading.
  • SDM Partners team won litigation against the tax inspectorate for a major Swiss medical company in relation to a permanent establishment dispute.
  • Advise one of the largest financial and industrial groups of Ukraine on establishing a brewery in the UK. Providing a legal summary to our client on the tax structuring of the deal relating to the acquisition of commercial real estate and receipt of manufacturing equipment in the UK required for the brewery’s start up.
  • Advise on carryforward of a tax loss resulted from securities trading.
  • Win a court case against the tax authorities regarding a VAT reclaim for the total amount of 6.5 million US Dollars.
  • Represent a client during a tax audit. Around 12 million US Dollars of the potential tax claims were dismissed by the tax authorities at the pretrial stage of proceedings.
  • Won the court case against the tax authorities regarding the corporate income tax for the total amount of 1.1 million US Dollars.
  • Advising a leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment on tax planning
  • SDM Partners team won litigation against the tax inspectorate for a major Swiss medical company in relation to a permanent establishment dispute.
  • Legal support of an international car manufacturer in the process of buying a large land plot in the Kiev region
  • Advise a major Ukrainian oil and gas resources company on tax issues under the Production Sharing Agreement.
  • Advise one of the largest financial and industrial groups of Ukraine on establishing a brewery in the UK. Providing a legal summary to our client on the tax structuring of the deal relating to the acquisition of commercial real estate and receipt of manufacturing equipment in the UK required for the brewery’s start up.
  • Win a court case against the tax authorities regarding a VAT reclaim for the total amount of 6.5 million US Dollars.
  • Represent a client during a tax audit. Around 12 million US Dollars of the potential tax claims were dismissed by the tax authorities at the pretrial stage of proceedings.

Key Contacts

Кепко Владислав

Vladyslav Kepko

Head of Employment and Military Law Practice