Consul Group was a partner of an RBC conference

Sergei Pivovarchik, managing partner of Consul Group, spoke at the RBC conference "Legal issues in real estate 2019", held on 26 April.

In his address the expert considered the current questions of real-estate taxation in general, and in particular the tax regulation of commercial property in Moscow.

Sergei Pivovarchik, managing partner, discussed with the participants the tax consequences of dividing and combining capital construction projects, and raised the question of VAT in the cadastral value of a capital construction project. In the second part of his address he spoke about the use of foreign elements in the structuring of transactions as risk factors, and shared a practical case (Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 937-ПП), in which he stressed the importance of the principles of tax law and of their application in tax disputes today.

The discussion was moderated by Ignat Bukhushin, editor-in-chief of RBC Real Estate. The speakers included Dmitry Volkov, Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation; Stanislav Krymov, deputy head of the Directorate for the Optimisation and Control of Procedures in Urban Development of the Moscow Department of Urban Planning Policy; Yulia Buzanova, partner and head of practice at the Commonwealth of Land Lawyers; and other experts on the market.

During the event the participants discussed trends in real-estate legislation and in how that legislation is applied, examined court disputes, and analysed the case law.

More on the event is available at this link.

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