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Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 27 – Allison Christians (Canada) Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn .

Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 24 –Saulė Dagilytė Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn .

Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 25 –Illya Sverglov (Ukraine) Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn .

Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 23 – Ana Utumi on USD 6 billion tax fraud Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn .

Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 20 – Edward Mwachinga (Kenya) & Theophilus Tawiah (Ghana) – Africa is Rising Edward and Theo will tell us about their careers, businesses and tax systems of Kenya and Ghana. They are both partners of the leading tax consulting firms in their countries, both are members of WTS Global tax network, covering all Africa. We will also speak about literature, coffin danc...

Kaspars has scored 51 points in 81 games while playing for Latvia national ice hockey team. He has been playing in NHL for Ottava Senators & Boston Bruins. Then he played at KHL in Russia and Latvia. Currently Kaspars plays in the Swiss National League for Bern. The first ½ of the chat is more on life and business principles, and then we dive into taxation in sports in the 2nd half.   https://...

Richard Asquith is CEO of VAT Calc – VAT & technology company. He is also a winner of International Tax Review’s ‘Tax Innovator of the Year’ award. In our chat we dive into literature, wine and relations; why e-invoicing is the thing; on VAT automation; on some predictions; on thought online leadership; on VAT fraud and which countries stand out as having the best VAT systems. https://tax-stor...

Bill Browder after the murder of his tax lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy gave up his life as a businessman and became a human rights activist. He is also an author of the book “Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice”. We dive into the details of this tax affair – how exactly did it happen, how the fraud was discovered and the money & assets bought – traced,...

Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 17– Harriet Brown and Grahame Jackson. Harriet Brown and Grahame Jackson are authors of a podcast International Tax Bites that explains different tax concepts. They both in September 2021 released a book “A Practitioner’s Guide to International Tax Information Exchange Regimes”, published by www.spiramus.com . Harriet practices tax in the UK, but Grahame – in Gibralta...

Jānis Zelmenis is a Chairman of Management Board & Equity Partner at BDO Latvia, and one of the most prominent tax experts in Latvia. Having the conversation exactly on his 50th birthday we look back at his achievements and aims, leadership style, his book about the post-USSR privatisation in Latvia and offshores used for that (the interview was recorded just before the Pandora Papers were rel...

Ronny Langer is a founding partner of KMLZ, which became Tier 1 Indirect tax firm in Germany just in 15 years! We discuss – how? Ronny was modest to relate this great achievement to a lack of competition (at least initially). He was also inspired at the beginning by the UK consultants who said that about 40% of their work is in VAT advice. Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates...

Jens Svolgaard mostly has been working with tax in e-commerce – Electronic Arts (EA), Spotify and now – Bolt, the Estonian and global unicorn. The conversation with Jens can be divided in three blocks – Bolt business, personal development revelations and taxation trends around the globe. Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follo...

Joel Slemrod is a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, and Michael Keen is a deputy director of the Fiscal Affairs department at the IMF. Both are authors of a brand new book – Rebellion, Rascals and Revenue – that is full of tax stories from the history of many different countries around the world. Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webin...

Juhan Põldroos, Head of the supervisory department of the competition division of the Estonian Competition authority and Šarūnas Keserauskas, Chairman of the Competition Council of Lithuania participate in the discussion moderated by partner Daivis Švirinas. Main topics in the discussion spotlights are enforcement priorities, existing case law and expected changes in the Baltics.   Subscribe here...

Partner Ieva Andersone tells about retail price maintenance and its current and future EU regulation. Her presentation covers also comparison with the US antitrust law and potential efficiency defence in the EU.  Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn .

The new regulation introduces the “shared exclusivity”, under which the supplier may appoint “a limited number of buyers” as exclusive distributors in a given territory or for a given customer group (currently only one exclusive distributor). However, the shared exclusive distribution must not be misused in order to restrict competition. Listen to presentation on the topic by senior associate Mari...

To gain additional knowledge on what are parity clauses listen to counsel Piibe Lehtsaar. Presentation covers different situations, possible pros and cons, compares current and future vertical block exemption regulation, as well as all-time favourite – dos and don’ts. Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follow us on Facebook and...

Counsel Monika Mališauskaitė-Vaupšienė introduces competition aspects affecting online sales: vertical block exemption regulation (VBER) that affect online businesses European Commission’s approach on prohibiting online sales Dual pricing: charging the same distributor a higher wholesale price for products intended to be sold online than for products to be sold offline Equivalence principle in sel...

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Overview and discussion: Option solutions available for start-ups onboarding US investors Sorainen tax experts Kaido Künnapas, Jānis Taukačs together with US expert Taavi Annus, Partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Closing remarks Kaido Künnapas, counsel Subscribe here if you would like to receive legal updates and invitations to webinars and offline events. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedI...

Welcome by moderator Mirell Prosa, Head of Sorainen start-up Team in Estonia Briefs and discussion: Legal considerations related to fundraising with US investors and flipping your company to the US Taavi Annus, Partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP together with Baltic start-up representatives Vytenis Buzas from NanoAvionics and Ulla Helm from Veriff   Subscribe here if you would like to rece...

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