Tax practice: when you need legal advice

Tax practice is a line of business of a law firm that helps prevent negative consequences when interacting with tax authorities or protect the client’s interests in a legal dispute with government authorities.

Tax practice can be divided into two areas: prevention to prevent negative tax consequences and solving problems that have already arisen, namely, representing the client’s interests in judicial or administrative proceedings. Oleksandr Shchukin, a junior partner, candidate of law, and attorney at the law firm DE-JURE, believes that a visit to a tax lawyer should be as regular as health checkups, and then no inspection by regulatory authorities will cause problems for the company. DE-JURE lawyers help in the following situations:

• consultation on tax legislation – both for those who are just planning to open their own business and for those who are already working;
  proving the origin of funds;
• tax planning, since the norms of the law may differ slightly from how everything works in practice;
• support for tax audits. Since inspections are now announced in advance, it makes sense to contact a lawyer even if you do not expect problems. If the inspection is unexpected, the lawyer is involved after the regulatory authorities have made a control purchase and are checking the documents;
• appealing tax notices and decisions in an administrative manner;
• protecting the client’s interests in court and tax authorities.

In addition to consulting companies, we conduct audits of individuals. To do this, we collect all the client’s documents and look at the structure of their property, so to speak. through the eyes of the tax office. Then we help in the analysis, structuring of income and auditing documents confirming the availability of funds.