Maxima Legal and Avalon Estate held a joint business breakfast on the commercial real estate market

On December 8th Maxima Legal and Avalon Estate consulting company held a joint business breakfast on "Real Estate Market Review. Tax and legal aspects". During the event, experts told about the results and trends of development of the St. Petersburg commercial real estate market as well as highlighted a number of key tax and legal risks that…


Nikita Deynega helped Pravo.ru to make a list of the Supreme Court's major economic decisions for 2021

The Pravo.ru portal has prepared a publication in which lawyers talked about what they consider to be the most important economic decisions of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in 2021. One of them was the ruling in case No. A76-8895/2019. In this process, the actions of a lender who had made repairs to the premises they were renting…


Maxima Legal has expanded its presence on the Pravo.ru-300 rating and entered top-4 law firms by the total number of industry awards and top-7 by the number of first level awards

On December, 2 the results of  the key Russian rating of law firms, Pravo.ru-300, were published. Maxima Legal has once again proved the high level of expertise of its practice areas and collected a total of 18 industry awards, a third of which were "gold". It should be noted, that the firm entered TOP-7 of legal advisers by the…


Nikita Deynega joined the jury of the "Tax Live" Russian Taxation Study Competition

On 27th of November, the winner of the annual Russian Taxation Study Competition, organised by the "Tax Live. Law Live" team was announced. In 2021, 61 submissions were received from teams representing 25 universities and branches from 14 cities. The competition was won by the team from the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg). Nikita…


Nikita Deynega commented for Vot-tak.tv the problem of defining the type of assets for the taxation purposes

Over the past few years, the number of cases involving the definition of the type of property has increased in Russian court practice. The situation is caused by a difference in the interpretation of objects as movable or immovable property by tax authorities and business representatives. It should be reminded that from 2019 only immovable…


Nikita Deynega has spoken about changes in approaches to tax benefit assessment at #SPIBAtaxTalks discussion meeting

On 29 October, the Finance Committee of the St Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA) held #SPIBAtaxTalks discussion meeting. During the event the experts discussed news about the Finance Committee's work in the Advisory Council of the Russian Federal Tax Service, the Supreme Court's review of approaches to unjustified tax benefit…


Maxima Legal is among the Russian law firms recommended by Leaders League

Leaders League international information and rating agency has presented its own version of the list of "Russia's best law firms". Three practices and 4 specialists of Maxima Legal received professional recognition according to the results of 2021. In particular, Maxima Legal's corporate law expertise allowed the firm and personally Maxim…


Maxima Legal and AFK-Audit held joint seminar on taxation of corporate property

On 14th of October Maxima Legal and AFK-Audit company held joint seminar "Taxation of corporate property. The influence of new accounting standarts on tax obligations. Judicial practice". Experts told about latest regulatory changes in taxation of corporate property and how they influence the practice of computation of property taxes and analysed…


Nikita Deynega on Klerk.ru shared his opinion on the approaches of the Supreme Court to the assessment of property as movable or immovable for tax purposes

Tax consultants on the portal "Klerk.ru" shared their views on whether the recent explanations of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will change the situation with the qualification of property as movable or immovable for tax purposes. Nikita Deynega, Head of Tax and Administrative Law practice at Maxima Legal, pointed out that "we must…


Nikita Deynega told "Nalogoved" magazine about the qualification of property as movable or immovable by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Nikita Deynega, Head of Tax and Administrative Law practice at Maxima Legal, told "Nalogoved" magazine about the development of the Supreme Court's approaches to qualifying property as movable or immovable. According to the expert, the approach of the Supreme Court should give a positive impulse to the development of practice in such cases. To…