Elena Kilinkarova takes part in an International Tax conference

On 22 March, Counsel from Maxima Legal, Elena Kilinkarova, took part in and gave a presentation at the VI International Scientific Conference ‘International taxation: current questions of theory and practice’. The conference took place in Moscow at the Financial University with the support of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) and the Russian branch of the International Tax Association (Ros-IFA). Elena Kilinkarova’s presentation was on the implementation of a plan for BEPS in the context of a multi-lateral treaty that was published in November 2016, which can be used to make amendments to the provisions of bilateral treaties on the avoidance of double taxation.

Among the speakers at the conference there was the deputy director of the Russian Federal Tax Service, A.L. Overchuk, deputy manager of the Controlling department of the Federal Tax Service K.V. Novoselov, Academic Chairman of the IBFD Professor Pasquale Piston, member of the Executive Board of IBFD and Director of Amsterdam Centre for Taxation at the University of Amsterdam, Professor Victor van Kommer, as well as other leading Russian practitioners and academics – specialists in the field of international taxation.