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During the webinar,  Roman considered changes to the tax legislation related to the introduction of the quarantine, namely:

1) changes in respect of some taxes;

2) changes in administration of taxes;

3) changes in the field of tax dispute resolution.

During the webinar, special attention was paid to the Bill No. 3329-d. It was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on 13 May 2020 and as of 21 May 2020 has not yet been signed by the President.

The Bill is important in that it prolongs the existence of the vast majority of the quarantine reliefs for taxpayers, that would have otherwise expired in May 2020. Such reliefs under the Bill in most cases will be in effect until the last calendar day of the month in which the quarantine is terminated.

Roman's speach concerned specifics of tax litigation over the quarantine period.

The tax dispute arose around the failure of the tax authorities to increase the client’s registration limit in the system of electronic VAT administration for more than UAH 13 million.

During the webinar, the changes related to the following areas were discussed: 

 ✅ Concerning the administration of taxes,  the focus was made on the new rules of conducting tax inspections. There are so many changes to be made in this area. Unfortunately, a great many of these changes are  shifting the balance in favor of the tax authorities.

 ✅ Concerning specific taxes, the number of changes is not so large. However, the changes are important and must be taken into account.

This year Legal 500 again recommends us in this area (Real Estate and Construction, Tier 3).

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, dear friends!

We are very grateful to you for your support and cooperation!

New Year is always a good time to sum up.

We are glad to share with you some of the achievements of LEXJUS for 2019:

- Recognized by an authoritative ranking agency Legal 500 in real estate and construction (tier 3).

 - 61st position in the rating of Ukrainian law firms conducted by the Yurydychna Gazeta and 109th position in that of the Yuridicheskaya Practika.

 - Continued handling the legal aspects of the lease relationships of large Ukrainian malls, including: Blockbuster Mall, Ocean Mall, Respublika Mall.

- Represented the clients in a number of complex court cases in the fields of debt collection, taxation, intellectual property, real estate, and public procurement. We would especially like to note a bunch of disputes brought by our client which is a foreign bank. In these disputes, we seek to break the discriminatory jurisprudence of the Cassation Commercial Court restricting the right of non-participants to litigation to bring appeals to very unlikely situations where the contested judgement expressly states their rights, obligations or interests.

On 31 March 2020, Roman Blazhko, the partner of LEXJUS held  a LIGA-ZAKON webinar on amendments to tax legislation aimed at supporting business in the face of coronavirus infection.

Particular attention was paid during the webinar to the Act of 30  March 2020

No. 540-IX (at the time of the webinar - the Bill No. 3275). This instrument, in addition to the previously adopted acts in the given field, provides a lot of important changes to the tax legislation, the most significant of which, in our opinion, is the increase in the revenue limits for unified tax payers.

It is also noteworthy that this Act does not leave aside the area of tax litigation. The most important changes in this area, in our opinion, are:

• Possibility to remotely participate in court sessions using own computer equipment;
• Suspension for the quarantine period of time-limits for filing administrative complaints  and suits, appeal and cassation claims, as well as other procedural documents on the merits of a dispute.

December 2019 proved to be an extremely productive month for the partner of LEXJUS Roman Blazhko in terms of speaking on case law in tax cases.

On 04-05 December 2019 - speeches in Dnipro and in Zaporizhzhya within the scope the out-of- office meetings of the Tax and Customs Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association (court jurisprudence on decriminalization of fake entrepreneurship and on suspending the registration of VAT invoices).

On 13 December 2019 - a webinar at the Business Consulting Academy educational platform on tax litigation involving an international component (the application of the commentaries on OECD Model Convention, beneficial owner, permanent establishment, transfer pricing, etc.).

On 18 December 2019 -  a webinar at the Business Consulting Academy educational platform on the general overview of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence in tax disputes (standard (pilot) tax cases, tax disputes resolved by the Grand Chamber, etc.).

On 27 November 2019 LEXJUS Law Firm celebrated its first decade!

Thanks to everyone who joined and shared our celebration!

Special thanks to our clients who are the source and sense of our existence!

There is still a great deal of work, many victories and even more achievements ahead of us! Not far away is the second decade))))