Nikita Deynega has assessed for Pravo.ru the appropriateness of involving tax authorities as third parties in disputes

The Commercial Court of the Far Eastern District has ordered a gold mining company from Magadan to reimburse around 300,000 roubles legal expenses to the Interdistrict Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service for Major Taxpayers No. 9 from Kemerovo in a dispute over an additional charge for mineral extraction tax. The fiscal authority only became a…


Maxima Legal has supported Global Legal Run 2021 charity run

Maxima Legal has traditionally participated in Legal Run charity run, which was once again held in a flashmob format due to the extension of restrictions on public events because of the pandemic. From 22 May to 1 June, the event was supported by more than 100 Russian and foreign law firms, raising about 3 million rubles to help the wards of …


Nikita Deinega explained for Novy Prospect how the Russian Federal Tax Service's attitude to business tax abuse has changed

Nikita Deinega, Senior Associate and Head of Tax and Administrative Law Practice at Maxima Legal,  has told Novy Prospect online edition how the attitude of the Federal Tax Service to the topic of business tax abuse has changed. To read the full article (in Russian), please see Novy Prospect website >>>


Nikita Deinega spoke at the "Tax Law in the Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation" conference about a legal precedent that established the constitutional principles of VAT collection and to which he was directly involve

The XVIII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Tax Law in the Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation" was held at the portal "Zakon.ru" on 20-28 April. During the event, tax law specialists from leading law firms and major business companies as well as representatives of the scientific community and state…


Nikita Deinega has discusses the application of Article 54.1 of the Tax Code at the #SPIBAtaxTalks event

On 27 April, the Finance Committee of the St Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA) held a discussion on "Article 54.1 of Tax Code of the Russian Federation : Current Application Practice". The event was dedicated to the resonance Letter № BV-4-7/3060@ of the Russian Federal Tax Service dated 10.03.2021, in which Article 54.1 of the…


Maxima Legal has strengthened its team and expanded its tax practice expertise with administrative law issues

Nikita Deynega, an expert in Russian and international taxation as well as customs and antimonopoly regulation, has joined Maxima Legal. As a Senior associate, Nikita led the firm's tax practice, which started also cover a wide range of administrative law matters. Nikita has more than 12 years' experience in the legal sphere. Prior to joining…


The World Bank has thanked Maxima Legal lawyers for contributing to Doing Business 2021 research

The World Bank Group which annually jointly with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) issues Doing Business research thanked Maksim Avrashkov and Sergei Bakeshin for their input in preparation of the Russian part of the report in 2020. In particular, the World Bank team underlined the importance of Maxima Legal experts' knowledge and…


Kommersant Publishing House confirms Maxima Legal's expertise in 34 nominations of its own legal rating

Kommersant Publishing House has published its own annual research of legal business in Russia. According to the results, Maxima Legal has confirmed its reputation of one of the leading legal advisors in Russia with 34 rating nominations. In particular, the Kommersant has included the company in its list of recommended law firms in 13 practice…


Sergei Bakeshin has explained to the DP why financial authorizes cannot appeal against court decisions in tax disputes

13th Commercial Court of Appeal stopped proceedings on the complaint of the Finance Committee of the Leningrad region. The court had asked to reconsider a decision that was not in favor of the Federal Tax Service: the company Gotek North-West managed to prove that tax authorities charged additional 378 million rubles of property tax arrears.…


Maxim Ali has provided his comments to the Novy Prospect on the prospects of Russian legal market in 2021

Maxim Ali, Partner at Maxima Legal, has shared with the Novy Prospect online edition his vision of the development of the Russian legal services market in 2021 "The pandemic affects the legal market in different ways, and it's quite difficult to predict which factors will take over. On the one hand the economic situation is very difficult.…