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On September 15, Marketing Director (CMO) of FBS Elena Tkachuk will be the speaker of the UBA Forum

Published:   14.09.2017 |

On September 15, Elena Tkachuk, Marketing Director of the Finance Business Service, will speak at the Autumn Forum of the Ukrainian Bar Association "The Formula for Success: Standards of Advocacy". The venue for the event will be “IQ Business Center”, located at: Kyiv, Bolsunovska street, 13-15. The forum will be focused on current standards and trends in the market of legal services and advocacy in particular, partnership and finance in the law practice, the protection of lawyers' rights and the rules of legal ethics. The important marketing aspects of advocacy and effective ways to attract the clients will be also considered. CMO FBS Elena Tkachuk presents a report on the topic "Social networks and chatbots as effective marketing tools." We would like to note that the speaker is the founder of the international educational project “Instaschool”, the first online insta-school in Ukraine. The high efficiency of business promotion in this social network has long become a proven fact a long time ago, and the main advantage of training in “Instaschool” is a comprehensive approach from "A" to "Z". As for the other speakers, among them will be the representatives of the...

Switzerland made another attempt to reform corporate taxation system

Published:   13.09.2017 |

The Swiss Federal Council is concerned that the corporate tax system of the country no longer meets international standards, which is bad for its status. In connection with this, another attempt was made to improve the system, therefore a new package of reforms TP17 was designed to make the jurisdiction more attractive and competitive without damaging the state budget. We remind that in February of this year the government lost a referendum on the Corporate Tax Reform III package, which concept was in the cancellation of a number of tax benefits for the status companies in order to achieve compliance with changeful international requirements regarding unfair tax competition. After an unsuccessful attempt to revise the current system, a working group was convened to develop a new mechanism. The TP17 package was submitted to the Federal Council and approved by it in June. The reformation of the system includes the following activities: Special preferences for the companies regarding their cantonal status, under which they pay a reduced income tax or are exempt from taxation at all, will be canceled. The cantons will have to enter the "patent box" regime, according to which the...

British parliament recognized primacy of national law over european

Published:   12.09.2017 |

In the night of Tuesday, September 12, the vote took place at the meeting of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, regarding the Bill of coming out of the European Union (European Union (Withdrawal) Bill), also so called the "Repeal Bill". The bill is based on the establishment of the primacy of national legislation in Britain over the European in the framework of Brexit, as well as coming out of London from the jurisdiction of the European Court. In addition, the document supposes the cancellation of the Act of the European Communities of 1972, containing the legislative base of about 12,000 provisions, which was developed before the entry of the UK into the EU. The purpose of Repeal Bill is to provide a fully functioning legal system in the country after its coming out of the European Union. The discussion of the document lasted about 13 hours. Based on the counting of votes (326 - for and 290 - against), the bill was adopted. However, for its entry into force, the approval of the House of Lords and the signature of Queen Elizabeth II are necessary. The Labour and many Conservatives are against the "law of...

Ukraine joined the global register of beneficial owners

Published:   06.09.2017 |

According to the news of the Internet portal Censor.NET, recently the Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman has made an announcement in Facebook regarding the opening a free access to the database of beneficial owners of the companies in the state. With common efforts of the State Agency for Electronic Governance and the Ministry of Justice, the information was made public on the Unified State Open Data Portal. According to words of the head of the government, this decision will contribute to building a transparent and effective state, as well as the development of commercial and public projects. The open data can be used for the analysis by the media and the public for the purpose of public control, as well as serve as a material for the creation of new IT projects that will work for the benefit of the national economy and will be useful to many Internet users. Vladimir Groysman noted that our country was the first in the world to join the Global Register of Beneficial Owners, initiated by the international anti-corruption organization Transparency...

Amendments to the polish law on gambling entered into force

Published:   06.09.2017 |

The amendments to the Polish Law on Gambling, adopted on November 19, 2009, entered into force in two parts in April and July, 2017. The changes imply new obligations for Internet providers and payment service operators with respect to online betting. According to the Amendments, as of April 1, 2017, the Ministry of Finance of Poland is obliged to create a special register of prohibited Internet domains, which includes the domains used for the unauthorized organization of gambling in the country. The register is available following this link: https://hazard.mf.gov.pl/ In accordance with the changes, since July 1, 2017, Internet service providers are required to block access to the websites using the domain names entered in the registry of prohibited domains. The Internet providers have to remove the domain names of unlicensed operators from IT systems within 48 hours after the appearance of the domain name in the registry. The amendments to the law also prohibit the operators of the payment systems to provide the services on the websites that use "prohibited" domains. In the case of providing payment services on such sites, the suppliers are obliged to cease the cooperation with...

The “blocking” criteria and conditions for submitting documents to the SFS have undergone changes

Published:   05.09.2017 |

On July 21, 2017, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine approved changes to the Criteria for assessing the degree of risks that is sufficient to stop the registration of a tax invoice / adjustment calculation in the Unified Register of Tax Invoices. The innovations will come into force at once after the official publication of the Order of the MFU No. 654 by which they are stipulated. The changes mainly concerned the subparagraph 1 of the paragraph 6 of the Criteria, which will introduce the following: "The volume of delivery of goods / services specified in the tax invoice / adjustment calculations submitted for the registration in the Register is 1.5 times greater than the amount that equals to the remainder of the difference of the volume of the acquisition in the customs territory of Ukraine of such goods / services (except for the volume of purchase of goods / services on the operations exempted from taxation and subject to taxation at zero rate) and / or import of such goods into the customs territory of Ukraine specified since January 1, 2017 in the received tax invoices / adjustment calculations, registered in the Register and customs declarations and the volume of...

NBU simplified the conditions for banks to purchase eurobonds

Published:   05.09.2017 | news

On August 8, 2017 in order to improve the licensing regime of foreign exchange operations the National Bank of Ukraine adopted the Resolution # 77 "On the amendments in the Instruction on the procedure for issuing individual licenses for investing abroad." By this decision, the NBU has simplified the conditions of purchase of debt securities (Eurobonds) by the banks issued abroad to finance the credit granted by non-residents. We remind that earlier carrying out such operations assumed the receipt of the individual license by the bank. Since the date the amendments came into force, that is on the 10th of August, the acquisition of Eurobonds is possible within the framework of a general license to conduct foreign exchange transactions in the area of ​​raising and placement of foreign currency on the international markets. It is expected that innovation will enhance the effectiveness of liquidity management of the banks and will not lead to negative consequences for the currency...

SFS held a seminar on the topic “topical issues of tax administration”

Published:   05.09.2017 |

Seminar in the Main Department of the SFS of Kyiv on the topic "Topical issues of tax administration" On August 10, 2017, a seminar on the topic "Topical Issues of Tax Administration" took place at the Main Department of the SFS of Kyiv (Sholudenka street, 33/19). Needless to say that "blocking" of tax invoices was in the epicenter of the discussion - the most painful issue for the taxpayers today. The event announced the introduction of changes to the Order of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine of 13.06.2017 # 567 regarding the criteria for the risks sufficient to "block" tax invoices. It was said that these amendments have already been submitted for the registration to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Unfortunately, the representatives of the institution did not inform what changes had taken place and how weighty they were. Therefore, we are waiting for the official publication and we hope that innovations will make life easier for the taxpayers in the aspect of tax administration. Problem issues that were discussed at the seminar: 1. Non-acceptance ("non-consideration") of the "technological card of the enterprise": It was clarified that the "technological card" is...

Finance Business Service company opened a merchant account in the shortest time in one of the major European processing companies, as well as complete legal support was given to the client

Published:   05.09.2017 |

The client addressed the Finance Business Service company – the company providing online educational services in the field of trading- for opening a merchant account. It is worth noting that one of the reasons for appealing was the initial refusal of the processing company when the client attempted to register the account independently. The experts of the Finance Business Service carried out a detailed analysis of the documents and information to determine the reasons for the refusal. In the process of this analysis, a number of inconsistencies with the main requirements of the processing companies was identified, presented to the clients' websites. Among these inconsistencies were: the lack of basic rules and conditions on the client's website, the privacy policy, as well as the discrepancy between the English-language and Russian-language versions of the website. The lawyers of the Finance Business Service prepared basic rules and conditions, a privacy policy considering the specificity of the client's field of activity, and also it was pointed out at the inconsistencies with the purpose of its further elimination. After carried out changes in the work of the site of the...

Ireland amended the law on investment partnerships with limited liability

Published:   04.09.2017 |

On July 18, 2017, the Irish government approved the drafting of a Bill on reforming the structure of partnerships with limited liability. This innovation will be an important step in the development of the financial services sector and it will contribute to the growth of the popularity of Ireland as the preferred jurisdiction for the registration of investment funds. Recently, the Minister of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reforms of Ireland, Pascal Donoho, made a statement regarding the Investment Limited Partnership (Amendment) Bill 2017 (the ILP Bill). The purpose of the bill is to amend the Investment Limited Partnership Act 1994 (Law on Investment Partnerships with Limited Liability) used for Limited Liability Companies (LP) and Limited Partnerships Act 1907 (Law on Partnerships with Limited Liability), which is used for unregulated LP structures . The amendments proposed by the ILP bill will help in bringing both regulated and unregulated LP in the line with other fund structures, and in the case of regulated LPs, with the standards set forth in the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive 2011/61 / EU), as well as other international standards regarding LP....