08:30–09:00

Registration. Morning Coffee

09:00–09:20

Forum Opening. Welcoming remarks

Tetyana Lysovets, Forum General Partner Representative, Senior Partner at Sokolovsky & Partners

Session 1.

Panel Discussion:

What’s the buzz? Recent Changes and Novelties in Taxation

09:20 – 11:00

Moderator – Vladyslav Sokolovsky, Managing Partner at Sokolovsky & Partners

9:20–11:00

Speakers:

Yevgenii Kapinus, Deputy Ministry of Finance of Ukraine

Andriy Zhurzhiy, First Deputy Chairman of Parliament Committee on Tax and Customs Policy

Oleksandr Minin, Senior Partner at KM Partners

Topics for discussion:

• Tax reform
• Tax police reform
• Changes in criminal prosecution for evasion of taxes – under the draft law #3448
• Taxation amnesty and zero declaration

11:00–11:30

Coffee Break

Session2.

International Tax Planning, Transfer Pricing, Deoffshorization  

11:30 – 13:00

Moderator – Ivanka Pylypyuk, Managing Partner at ICG

11:30–11:50

Larysa Antoschuk, Head of Tax Dispute Practice at KPMG Ukraine

Transfer pricing: tendencies in court practice

11:50–12:10

Oleksandr Maydanyk, Council at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Ukraine

Deoffshorization – experience of other countries

12:10–12:30

Mykola Ochkolda, Managing Partner at Legitimus

Effective business structuring in the view of “deoffshorization”

12:30–12:50

Nataliya Ulianova, Partner at ICF Legal Service

New discoveries in tax planning: BEPS, open registers of beneficiaries, automatic information exchange, “deoffshorization” in Ukraine. Impact on international business. Will it work?

12:50–13:00

Q&A Session

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Competition "Forum Participants" vs "Expendables"

Nataliia Blazhivska, Judge of the the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine

Arsen Miliutin, Сounsel of the Litigation Practice at EPAP Ukraine

Session 3.

Fail/Win Case Study or How We Can Learn from Field Experts

14:40 – 16:10

Moderator – Oleg Vdovychen, Managing Partner at Vdovychen & Partners

14:40–15:00

Andriy Gavryliuk, Fozzy Group

TBC

15:00–15:20

Sergiy Verlanov, Partner at Sayenko Kharenko

Tax dispute strategy with considerable back tax or One billion dispute

15:20–15:40

Nataliya Radchenko, Partner at Juscutum

Transfer prices. International pitfalls

15:40–16:00

Maryna Tomash, Council at Spenser & Kauffmann

Taxation of royalty and software supply, VAT and income tax

16:00–16:10

Q&A Session

16:10–16:40

Coffee Break

Session 4.

Panel Discussion:

You Asked For It or One-on-One With Judges

16:40 – 18:00

Moderator – Tetyana Lysovets, Senior Partner at Sokolovsky & Partners

Speakers:

Viktor Marynchenko, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine

Anton Polyanychko, council to the Head of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine

Dmytro Donets, Director of the Department of Administrative Appeals and Judicial Support to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine

During the panel discussion the speakers will answer the questions received prior to and during the Forum.

Please send your questions to: conference@uba.ua

18:00–20:00

Evening Reception