Tax Department Manager
About the Employee
Erlan Kuspanov has more than 10 years of experience in consulting companies, including 7 years at an international consulting company, providing consulting services in the field of subsoil user taxation, tax audits, and appeals of tax audits.
Erlan's experience includes participation in tax reviews of major oil and gas, mining, and energy companies in Kazakhstan, including those with foreign participation.
His areas of specialization are issues related to the correctness of separate accounting, the procedure for applying tax preferences, taxation of non-residents, as well as issues related to taxation of subsoil users (MET, rent tax, EPT).
Erlan has significant experience in supporting tax audits, appealing the results of comprehensive tax audits, as well as thematic audits on VAT refunds.
- Manager of Tax Department, Fortune Partners (January 2024 - present)
- Senior Consultant of Tax Department at an international consulting company (August 2020 - December 2023)
- Consultant of Tax Department at an international consulting company (September 2017 - July 2020)
- Consultant of Tax Advisory and Appeals Group at a consulting company (September 2013 - August 2017)
- Assistant of Tax Advisory and Appeals Group at a consulting company (September 2012 - September 2013)
2022 - 2024 — Bachelor of Law in Jurisprudence, Karaganda University of KazPotrebSoyuz
2008 - 2012 — Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Audit, Sh. Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University
- Conducting tax reviews for major oil and gas companies, total amount of tax optimizations exceeding 10 billion tenge
- Support for tax audits for major oil and gas companies, total amount of reduced tax consequences exceeding 5 billion tenge
- Successful challenge of tax audit on VAT refund for a total amount exceeding 2 billion tenge
- Litigation support for a major subsoil user in the oil sector regarding additional assessments of CIT, MET, and EPT in the amount exceeding 7 billion tenge
- Development and updating of tax accounting policies for major companies in the oil and gas, mining, and energy industries
- Preparation of expert opinions on issues of international taxation, taxation of subsoil users, application of special tax regimes, taxation of digital assets, as well as issues related to tax optimization through AIFC and foreign jurisdictions