July 7, 2008 in Moscow at the address: st. Nametkina, 12A, a round table will be held on the topic “Intellectual property as a tool for tax optimization”, organized by the law firm “Levant and Partners” specifically for the State Corporation “Russian Nanotechnology Corporation”. The event will feature Valery Narezhny, an adviser to the law firm Levant and Partners, with a report on the topic of the round table, as well as Roman Margulis, a lawyer at Levant and Partners, specializing in tax issues.
The event will be organized for the top management of the Rusnanotech State Corporation, where more than 30 representatives of the corporation will be present.
The speech program includes the following questions:

Specific features of IPOs that determine the possibility of using them in the tax planning process;

The concept of “intangible assets” in tax legal relations: the specifics of recognizing intellectual property as intangible assets;

Royalties as a form of redistribution of profits and tax burden in multi-level business structures;

Review of the main risks of using IPO in tax planning and methods for minimizing them.

Mr. Narezhny will talk in detail about the features of using intellectual property in the tax planning process, the difficulties in optimizing taxes and the concept of intangible assets for tax purposes. The main attention will be paid to the concept of royalties as a form of distribution of profits and tax burden in multi-level business structures.
Valery Vladimirovich Narezhny – Ph.D., Advisor to the law firm “Levant and Partners”. Specializes in tax and financial law, international tax planning. Has experience working in government agencies (Department of Tax Policy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Government Office of the Russian Federation), as well as in a number of leading Russian law firms. Author (co-author)