08:30 – 09:00

Registration. Morning coffee

09:00 – 10:00

Forum opening

Valentyn Zagariya, UBA President

Yaroslav Romanchuk, Head of Public Council of State Tax Service of Ukraine

Oleksandr Klymenko, Head of State Tax Service of Ukraine

Vasil Gedevanishvili, Deputy Director General Georgia Revenue Service

Andrzej Parafianowicz, Deputy Minister of Finance Republic of Poland

Session 1

Tax Administration

10:00 – 11:35

Moderator – Jacek Piechota, President, Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce

10:00 – 10:20

Yaroslav Romanchuk, Managing Partner, ILC Eucon

Interactions of taxpayers and tax bodies during inspections

10:20 – 10:40

Oleh Angelov, Deputy Head of Income Tax and Additional Payments Administration Department of Taxation for Individuals, State Tax Service of Ukraine

Novelties of Tax Code of Ukraine – avoidance of conflict of interest between tax payers and regulatory authorities during tax administration

10:40 – 11:00

Sergey Pepeliaev, Managing Partner, Pepeliaev Group, Russia

Tax administration in Russia – peculiarities, trends and challenges

11:00 – 11:20

David Koguashvili, Tax advisor , US Treasury (OTA),
Representation at Georgian Revenue Service

Tax administration – Georgian experience

11:20 – 11:35

Q&A

11:35 – 11:55

Coffee-break

Session 2

Tax Disputes

11:55 – 13:30

Moderator – Andriy Hrynchuk, Managing partner, Hrynchuk, Horpynyuk and Partners

11:55 – 12:15

Oleksandr Skliarenko, Managing Partner, Skliarenko and partners

Invalidity of legal transaction in tax disputes

12:15 – 12:35

Rustam Vakhitov, Head of Department of tax and financial advisory, International Tax Associates, Netherlands-Russia

Russian an EU judicial practice in tax disputes involving foreign element

12:35 – 12:55

Vladyslav Rozmosh, Deputy Head of Legal Administration Of Legal Department, State Tax Service of Ukraine

Burning issues of certain types of tax disputes in court proceedings

12:55 – 13:15

Alexander Nechytaylo, Judge, Secretary of Judicial Chamber, High Administrative Court of Ukraine

Court practice in tax disputes

13:15 – 13:30

Q&A

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30

Session 3

Taxation of Transactions Involving Non-Residents

14:30 – 16:05

Moderator - Pavlo Khodakovsky, Partner, Arzinger 

14:30 – 14:50

Irena Ozóg, managing partner, Ozóg and Partners

View from Europe – the verge between tax optimization and tax evasion

14:50 – 15:10

Oleksiy Zadorozhniy, Deputy Head  of Income Tax Administration of Legal Entity Department the verge between tax optimization and tax evasion

15:10 – 15:30

Ivan Yurchenko, Counsellor, Vasil Kisil & Partners

Transactions with non-residents: unadjusted and challenging transactions, ways of derisking

15:30 – 15:50

Larysa Vrublevska, Managing Partner, International Audit Union

Non-residents’ intellectual property in terms of tax planning

15:50 – 16:05

Q&A

16:05 – 16:25

Coffee-break

Session 4

Burning Issues of Taxation

16:25 – 18:00

Larysa Vrublevska, Managing Partner, International Audit Union

16:25 – 16:45

Evgen Solodko, Managing Partner, Solodko & Partners

Criminal aspects of relations with tax bodies

16:45 – 17:05

Volodymyr Vashchenko, Partner, Vashchenko, Bugay & Partners

Transfer pricing. Tax disputes before and after 1January, 2013

17:05 – 17:25

Andriy Zhurzhiy, Head of Legal Department, FOZZY GROUP

Tax aspects of taxpayers’ reorganization

17:25 – 17:45

Mykola Ochkolda, Managing Partner, Legitimus

Peculiarities of non-residents’ representative offices taxation and registration

17:45 – 18:00

Q&A

18:00 – 20:00

Cocktail