Tax and legal consulting

Yerzhan Dossymbekov

Tax and legal consulting:

Integrity. Quality. Reliability. These three words is the ground of our approach in providing tax and legal services to our clients. Globalization influences all fields of our life, and taxes and tax legislation is not an exception. We strongly believe that understanding of your business locally and globally as well as your goals let us as consultants support you by adding value to growth of your enterprise by providing practical advices. We are ready to assist you with defining optimal solutions in the following issues:

• Taxation of legal entities:

-  Tax consulting services;

-  Comprehensive and subject tax review;

-  Tax liquidation services;

-  Tax compliance services;

-  Development of tax accounting policy and tax registers.

• Taxation of individuals:

-  Tax consulting on individuals’ income taxation;

-  Tax consulting on defining individuals’ residency status for local tax purposes (including secondment assignments);

-  Tax compliance for individuals;

-  Tax consulting on application of double tax treaty provisions.

• International taxation:

-  Analyzing activities of foreign legal entity in Kazakhstan for defining risk of creating permanent establishment;

-  Consulting services on the form of legal entity foreign company could commence business in Kazakhstan;

-  Analyzing activities of the Branches and Representative offices in Kazakhstan for identifying potential tax risks;

-  Tax consulting on application of double tax treaty provisions;

-  Assistance in applying for refund of corporate income tax withheld from income of foreign companies received in the source of Kazakhstan.

• International tax structuring:

-  Assistance in developing international holding structures;

-  Assistance in managing and allocating tax burden in group of companies;

-  Structuring international agreements to oversee potential tax risks.

• Transfer pricing (further  – «TP»):

-  Identification of deals subject to TP state control;

-  Development of TP policies;

-  Aligning group policies with requirements of TP;

-  Price research for import and export deals of goods and services;

-  Justification of deal prices;

-  Assistance in procedure of signing TP application agreements.

• Supporting M&A deals:

-  Analyzing business activities to identify and assess potential tax and legal risks (tax and legal due diligence);

-  Analyzing tax disputes and assess tax risks.

• Legal consulting services:

-  Assistance in registration / re-registration of the legal entity in Kazakhstan;

-  Legal support during liquidation of legal entity in Kazakhstan;

-  Review and assistance in development of agreement, individual labor agreements, appeals and other documents;

-  Legal consulting on issues regarding civil, labor, and other legislations of Kazakhstan.

• Other services:

-  Holding subject tax trainings;

-  Holding seminars on tax legislation updates;

-  Distribution of Legislation Alerts on updates in legislation in Kazakhstan.