Yana Karausheva

Yana Karausheva

Ex-Junior Lawyer

Tax and Legal Practice

Korpus Prava (Russia)

Autors Articles
Russian VAT Overtakes Modern Times

Since January 1, 2017, new rules for VAT taxation of foreign entities that provide services to individuals in electronic form or through the Internet (hereinafter, the e-services) come into effect. According to the amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation , if a buyer of such services [...]

VAT without Borders: A Dangerous Carousel

This article continues the series of publications about the system of taxation with value-added tax in the European Union. In most cases VAT evasion schemes exploit the privilege stipulated by law for transactions concerning cross-border supply of goods when goods are transported from one state of the European Union [...]

What the Last Year Produced: Review of Law Amendments in 2015

2015 passed under the sign of capital amnesty initiated by the President of the Russian Federation and implemented by the legislator. According to data published in mass media at the end of last year, voluntary declaration by citizens of assets abroad turned out to be less in demand than [...]

VAT without Borders: Higher Justice

This article continues a series of publications about the system of imposition of value-added tax in the European Union. This issue is dedicated to a number of court decisions adopted by the highest judicial authority of the European Community regarding VAT imposition in 2013-2015.

Review of Special Economic Zone Regime in Russia

The key principles for organization of the special economic zone are common for the countries of the Customs Union. The main privilege, which residents of the SEZ enjoy, lies in the opportunity to apply customs procedures of the free customs zone to goods imported to the territory of the [...]

VAT in the European Union

For determining location for service rendering it is essential who is the client: a party being the VAT payer or not. If a client is the VAT payer (hereinafter we shall refer to such operations as B2B), location for service rendering shall be deemed his/her location.

What the Past Year Left: Tax Legislation Amendments

When there are disasters around such as law on controlled foreign companies, it is difficult to get distracted and to pay attention to anything else relating to taxes. However, the Tax Code sheds its editions like leaves and, whether we like it or not, we shall follow this process [...]

Q&A: Specific Issues Related to the Implementation of CFC

The CFC law is not our invention. It’s a trend. And we now move with the time. However, when reading the law one thing is clear: in a first approximation our bill is a usual CFC law. If you look under a magnifying glass, the question: what were the [...]

VAT Without Borders or Window to Europe

The world was told so many times about globalization, strengthening of international ties and blurring of boundaries between states in economic, social, cultural terms. Therefore let’s omit the due introduction about the relevance of knowledge about the European value-added tax.