Sorainen assisted Fauga, Viking Industrier and Byggleverandorene to appeal binding rulings on the transfer of losses in cross-border situations. The Supreme Administrative Court adopted a favourable decision, confirming that binding rulings have legal consequences to a taxpayer, even though under the legal acts they are only binding to the tax authority and not a specific […]
Publication / Alexey Anischenko, Kirill Laptev
On 11 August 2016 the second draft of the Belarusian law introducing amendments and changes to the Tax Code (Draft) was published. We set out below for your attention a brief overview of the main novelties that could become a reality from 1 January 2017. Note, however, that the proposed changes may be subject to […]
Sorainen assisted Virtualių paslaugų operatorius in a tax dispute related to the application of a VAT exemption for payment services. Sorainen advised the client in the last stage of a tax dispute in which all the earlier stages were unsuccessful for the client. The Supreme Administrative Court upheld the position expressed in the appeal claim […]
Sorainen assisted Vinted, the largest and most successful Lithuanian start-up in recent years, to successfully obtain a ruling from the State Social Insurance Fund Board on the preferential treatment of employee stock options for tax purposes. Strong argumentation in the inquiry to the State Social Insurance Fund Board led to the authority approving Vinted’s position […]
Sorainen Belarus advised Finland’s OpusCapita Group Oy on the Belarusian aspects of acquisition of all shares in jCatalog Software AG (Dortmund, Germany) from its shareholders. Our legal support included, inter alia, review of contractual arrangements between jCatalog Software AG and its local partner, advising on issues related to intellectual property protection, employment relations and tax […]