Maxim Voloboev
Head of Tax Practice

BS in law.

 

Professional experience over 15 years.

 

For a long time Mr.Voloboev held the position of the leading specialist of legal department, acting for the head of the legal department in the Interdistrict tax inspectorate for the largest taxpayers in electric power industry № 4 of Moscow.

 

Since 2014 - member of the Chamber of tax consultants.

 

Maxim Voloboev is an in-demand expert on issues of law and taxation as well asaccounting & bookkeeping for many leading Russian business editions such as: Forbes, Vedomosti, ID Kommersant, RBK, Izvestiya, Russian tax portal, Aktualnaya buhgalteriya, etc..

 

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

*2012 – 2018 - tax disputes with Federal Tax Service on issues of unjustified tax benefits, including amortization expenses to the costs structure by income assessment (disputes on qualification of amortization groups), classification 'real estate/personal property', disputes on the lawfulness of applying VAT exemption, disputes on tax benefits in energy sector (accelerated amortization, energy efficiency, articles 380, 381 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, etc.), disputing of non-regulatory acts of a tax body passed as a result of in-house and field tax inspections;

*2016 - 2018 - participation in projects on identification of clients' tax reserves on property tax (p. 3 art. 380 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, that confirms the right of a taxpayer to apply the reduced tax rate;

*Numerous consultations on application of tax legislation.

 

Maxim Voloboev was honored as part of the team by different professional ratings:

  • Chambers Europe in the areas «Energy & Natural Resources» and «Dispute Resolution: Domestic»;
  • Pravo.ru 300 in the areas «Tax law and tax disputes», «Arbitration proceedings»;
  • IFLR1000 in the area «Energy power and infrastructure»;
  • ID Kommersant in the areas «Settling of tax disputes» and «Electric energy».
Specialization:
  • Tax law
  • Antitrust law
  • Accounting and audit
  • Natural resources and energy power
  • Bankruptcy
  • Consulting clients on complicated issues related to taxation and accounting
  • Support by in-house and field tax inspections, representing interests of clients on the stage of pre-trial settlement of tax disputes