Tax & Customs Overview

The SORAINEN integrated regional Tax & Customs Practice deploying experienced former Big4 audit firm tax specialists and lawyers with extensive tax know-how provides advice for businesses in the Baltics and Belarus.

SORAINEN pays the utmost attention to the continuing education of its tax lawyers at seminars abroad and uses world-wide tax data bases, while team lawyers share their know-how at frequent pan-Baltic meetings.

SORAINEN is recommended for its Tax & Customs Practice by international directories such as The Legal 500 (“The scale of cross-border and VAT mandates is impressive, but no less so than the high-quality tax litigation practice.”) and Chambers Europe (“The ‘high responsiveness’ of this team makes clients feel like ‘it is a family; it is very easy to work with SORAINEN’.”).

SORAINEN offers expertise in all key tax and customs areas in the Baltic States and Belarus, including:

• tax and customs advice and optimisation, including, but not limited to:
  • advance ruling requests;
  • transfer pricing compliance;
  • local and cross-border mergers;
  • managing the “effective tax rate”;
  • market entry strategies and structuring, focusing on the new Baltic holding opportunities;
  • permanent establishment risks;
  • input VAT deductibility optimisation;
  • special economic zones and free ports;
• tax and customs disputes at all Ievels;
• tax due diligence and local tax compliance reviews.