The tax law practice of Legal Bureau Schwartz & Partners unites highly qualified lawyers who skillfully combine litigation in the most complex tax disputes with scientific and expert activities in the field of tax regulation. Our experts are also the authors of scientific articles and dissertations on the problems of tax law and have contributed to the formation of case law in favor of taxpayers.
Tax disputes are undoubtedly among the most sophisticated categories of cases. Complicated tax legislation, contradictory and inconsistent case law, sometimes unfounded claims of fiscal authorities based solely on a formal approach without taking into account the essence of economic relations between taxpayers – all this makes it necessary to attract qualified specialists in the field of tax law to resolve arising tax disputes.
Lawyers of Legal Bureau Schwarts & Partners have a deep academic knowledge of tax legislation. Our practice consists not only of practicing lawyers, but also of specialists engaged in scientific research on tax regulation issues. We lecture at postgraduate tax law courses, participate in scientific and practical conferences on taxation problems and exchange knowledge, ideas and experience in roundtable discussions as invited speakers.
We have repeatedly prepared expert opinions on the constitutionality, interpretation and application of tax legislation, in particular of article 113 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, of paragraph 10 of article 89 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation on the presumption of innocence of the taxpayer, of paragraph 2 of article 153 and paragraph 2 of article 249 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation in connection with the practice of demanding by tax authorities of additional tax payments based on the taxpayer's counterparty's revenue. Moreover, we have elaborated the professional opinion proving that the provisions of article 65 of the Commercial Procedure Code of the Russian Federation have legal uncertainty in the application of the presumption of good faith of the taxpayer in tax disputes. Our expert approach allows us to confidently take on the tasks of preparing expert opinions on issues that our clients raise in their complaints to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
Having many years of successful experience in a wide range of tax issues that is based on our deep academic knowledge of tax law, we can confidently declare ourselves as highly qualified lawyers in this legal field. Our clients appreciate our advice on the performance of tax obligations as we develop and implement for them plans that meet the goals of their work and provide the most effective solutions of tax optimization in full accordance with current tax law. However, most of our work is focused on the presentation of our clients’ interests in tax disputes in state courts. Our approaches elaborated by years of practice have allowed us to protect the interests of our clients in the most complex and seemingly hopeless tax disputes.