STARTING BUSINESS IN RUSSIA WITH BDO


BDO in Russia is glad to offer our clients legal support services for establishing a legal presence in the Russian Federation. We do our best to provide top-quality and timely services.

Our services

Legal

  • Legal advice related to the form of legal presence chosen
  • Legal support for initially establishing a legal presence
  • Legal support in terms of coordination with antitrust authorities
  • Elaboration of the corporate line-up of the legal presence,particularly in drafting the shareholder's agreements
  • Elaboration of the contractual line-up with Russian business partners, drafting standard-form business agreements
  • Drafting employment contracts with the legal entity’s CEO, Chief Accountant and other employees
  • Legal support in order to obtain foreign employees’ work permits
  • Day-to-day legal advice

Taxes

  • Assistance in selecting the appropriate tax regime
  • Tax planning, tax and accounting policy elaboration
  • Communications with the tax authorities on behalf of the client
  • Preparation of personal income tax returns
  • Day-to-day tax advice

Customs

  • Establishment of a strategy for customs activity, particularly of cooperation with providers of customs services (e.g. сustoms representatives, temporary storage warehouse, forwarding agents)
  • Legal and tax support for business projects, concluding and structuring foreign economic transactions with regard to customs issues
  • Optimising customs payments within the framework of current legislation
  • Support for control measures by customs authorities regarding the control of customs cost of goods
  • Assessment of risks of customs disputes accrual and elaboration of a programme to mitigate potential consequences
  • Legal estimations of prospects for the accrual of customs dispute, elaboration of a strategy and tactics for pre-litigation settlement of customs disputes

Outsourcing

  • Nominal General Director functions and the provision of a legal address in the client's start-up stage for fiscal purposes
  • Statutory accounting and tax compliance services, representing the client in dealing with Russian tax authorities
  • Management accounting and corporate reporting on international accounting standards. Reconciliation with local records
  • Day-to-day payroll processing and related tax filing, assistance in developing the necessary payroll-related internal regulations
  • Generation of all necessary HR