Tax Burden Optimisation: Legitimate Mechanisms That Stand Up to Tax Scrutiny

We analyse a company's financial and business operations and identify lawful ways to reduce the tax burden: tax exemptions, incentives, special tax regimes, and restructuring of business processes and transactions.

What sets us apart is years of defending taxpayers in disputes with tax authorities — including before the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. We know what tax authorities look for during audits, and we recommend only those solutions that will withstand both an audit and a dispute.

Situations Where We Step In:

The tax burden is growing, and management wants to know whether all lawful ways to reduce it have been used
A major deal is planned — the tax burden of the asset needs to be reviewed (due diligence). There may be risks of acquiring hidden debts
The business operates as it historically developed, and the structure has never been reviewed from a tax perspective
The company may qualify for incentives or special regimes, but it is unclear whether they apply and how to switch without risks
A group of companies grew spontaneously — intragroup transactions create tax risks and unnecessary burden
Previously implemented optimization raises doubts — its sustainability needs to be assessed before the tax authority does so

Our Approach:

We start with diagnostics: we analyze financial and economic activity, group structure, and key transactions to identify where there is lawful potential to reduce the burden;
We assess every solution through the eyes of the tax authority and the court: we know the practice of recharacterizing transactions and holding them invalid because we handle such disputes ourselves;
We work strictly within the legal framework: incentives, preferences, tax regimes, contractual and corporate structures — without aggressive schemes that turn into additional assessments with penalties and fines;
We calculate tax consequences comprehensively — including transfer pricing on intragroup and cross-border transactions;
We support implementation: from the restructuring plan to documentary formalization, so that every decision has a business purpose and an evidentiary base.

Why Us

We See Optimization from the Side That Audits It

Most advisers give recommendations on tax optimization. We go further: we support clients and protect their interests in tax disputes at every level, including the courts of the Republic of Kazakhstan. That is why every solution we propose is built from the outset around how the tax authority will review it and how a court will assess it.

Our specialists have experience in tax authorities, industrial holdings, Big Four firms, and courts. Among the results are transfer pricing advice on transactions of $200 million and a successful challenge of tax authority claims of $6 million.

We say honestly that over-optimization always brings major risks — and we do not propose solutions the client would have to pay for in an audit.

Our Cases.
How we helped our clients

When court decisions to invalidate transactions do not result in additional assessments

Brief description of the case:

When a desk audit notification arrives referencing already-issued civil court decisions

We See Optimization from the Side That Audits It

When It Is Important to Reach Out

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