08:30 – 09:00

Registration. Morning coffee

09:00 – 09:30

Forum opening

Igor Belous, Chairman of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine

Denys Bugay, UBA President

Yaroslav Romanchuk, head of organizing committee

Session 1. Tax Reforms: first results and perspectives

09:30 – 11:35

Moderator - Yaroslav Romanchuk, managing partner at Eucon

09:30 – 09:50

Ivan Livyi, Director of Department of Financial Policy at Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine

Shall the Tax Code become the Code of Economic Growth?  

09:50 – 10:10

Alexander Minin, Senior partner at "WTS Consulting", lawyer at "KM Partners"

Why and what should be changed in Tax Legislation

10:10 – 10:30

Andriy Stelmashchuk, Partner at Vasil Kisil & Partners

Ukrainian Tax System Reform in view of  EU-Ukraine Association Agreement 

10:30 – 10:50

Taras Kachka, Vice-President at American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine 

Requirements for Ukrainian Tax Policy according to EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

11:10 – 11:35

Q&A

11:35 – 11:55

Coffee-break

Session 2. Burning issues of international taxation and customs law

11:55 – 13:30

Moderator - Andrew Zhurzhiy, Head of Legal Department FOZZY GROUP

11:55 – 12:15

Larysa Vrublevska, Auditor, Associate Partner at EUCON

Transfer pricing – results of first year of legislation in action. Problems and solutions

12:15 – 12:35

Pavlo Khodakovsky, Partner atArzinger

Burning issues of commercial taxation of Ukrainian companies in Crimea

12:35 – 12:55

Vladislav Suvorov, State Fiscal Service of Ukraine

Issues of formation of the customs value and changes in customs documentation

12:55 – 13:15

Svitlana Musienko, partner at DLA Piper Ukraine

Global trends in international taxation and their relevance for Ukraine

13:15 – 13:30

Q&A

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30

Session 3. Judicial practice: What should be born in mind in order to succeed

14:30 – 16:05

Moderator - Artem Stoyanov, Senior Partner at LCF

14:30 – 14:50

Nataliia Blagivska, Judge at SACU

Tendencies and changes in judicial practice on tax disputes

14:50 – 15:10

Kateryna Leontovych, Judge at SACU

Summary of key points of judicial practice on tax disputes 

15:10 – 15:30

Oleksandr Maydanyk, Senior Lawyer at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine

Positivism vs spirit of law: problem of choice (by example of disputes on business purpose etc.)

15:30 – 15:50

Kyrylo Nominas, Associate Partner at Sokolovskyi & Partners

Goods value adjustment: disputing

15:50 – 16:05

Q&A

16:05 – 16:25

Coffee-break

Session 4. Criminal nuances in tax disputes

16:25 – 18:00

Moderator - Vitaly Serdjuk, Partner at AVER LEX

16:25 – 16:45

Dmitro Loban, Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine

Current issues of pre-trial investigation of crimes related to illegal earnings legalization

16:45 – 17:05

Vitaliy Ukrainets, investigating judge at Solomyanskiy District Court of Kyiv

Current issues of considering by investigating judges of tax militia investigators appeals on temporary access to property and goods and on issuing search warrant  

17:05 – 17:25

Oleg Vdovychen, managing partner at Stolychnyy Advokat

Typical errors of director and chief accountant during tax crimes questioning

17:25 – 17:45

Yevgeniy Solodko, head at Solodko and Partners

Defense particularities in criminal cases on tax evasion

17:45 – 18:00

Q&A

18:00 – 20:00

Evening reception