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For more than a year, when considering customs disputes, courts have been actively applying the legal positions that are reflected in Resolution No. 18 of the Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court “On certain issues of the application of customs legislation by courts” dated 12 May 2016. Most such disputes are connected with methods for determining the customs value of goods imported into the territory of the Customs Union. This is the reason why special attention is given to this category of disputes in Resolution No. 18 of the Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court, says Andrey Mikulin, Head of Sakhalin Office of Pepeliaev Group . 

Economists are very robust in pushing their ideas forward into legislation, and lawyers often pay no attention to the legal inconsistency of such innovations. In the policy guidelines for the public finances, taxes, and customs and tariffs issued by the Russian Ministry of Finance for the period up to 2020, the task is set to enact tax and non-tax expenditures legislation as early as this year. An author of the article is Sergey Pepeliaev, Managing partner at Pepeliaev Group. 

This is an article on how the approach on the applicability of the international tax treaties on the avoidance of double taxation (“double tax treaties” or “DTTs”) was recently changed in Russia. An author is Petr Popov, Senior Associate at Pepeliaev Group.

The Russian law provides for two methods of inheritance: by operation of law and under a will. If the deceased died intestate (i.e. left no will), then his/her property is inherited under the provisions of the Russian Civil Code, in accordance with seven levels of priority for inheritance. The list of types of property which can be inherited are shares, depositary receipts, bonds, units of investment funds and other instruments of the stock market. What should an heir do to receive securities under an inheritance procedure?

In July 2017, Russia's tax agency will disclose data about companies for the first time. What should businesses expect? What is the potential effect of this decision?

Law firm Pepeliaev Group has topped the ‘Best European firm of the year in tax policy’ category of the European Tax Awards 2017 international legal ratings. In this category, awards go to law firms that implement projects in the field of reforming tax legislation. Pepeliaev Group has been representing FIFA for several years in its negotiations with the Russian government in relation to the raft of sports-related legislation and subordinate legislation to be developed in the context of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.