Associate Partner
Head of Customs Consulting
About the Employee
Nikolay Pak has 16 years of practical experience in customs authorities and 6 years of experience in consulting companies.
Nikolay heads the Company's extensive customs regulation practice, which covers:
Customs review of customs declarations filed in previous periods for correctness of customs value, payment of customs duties, classification, procedural issues, etc., for companies from various economic sectors
Appealing decisions of customs authorities on unjustified additional assessments of customs duties and taxes (pre-trial and judicial procedures)
Consulting services on customs consequences arising from the application of various customs procedures, effective structuring of goods deliveries, validity of applying customs benefits and preferences
Issues of refund and offset of overpaid customs duties and taxes
Methodological and practical support for submitting proposals and amendments to the customs legislation of the EAEU and the Republic of Kazakhstan
Specialization — subsoil use, trade, FMCG, manufacturing enterprises, telecommunications industry.
Partner, Director of the Branch of Fortune Partners LLP (2022 - present)
Director of Customs Practice at a consulting company (2018 - 2022)
Manager of Customs Practice at an international consulting company (2016 - 2018)
Service in the customs authorities of Kazakhstan, held managerial positions (2001 - 2016):
- Head of Post-Customs Control Department
- Head of Customs Clearance Department
2006 — Lawyer-jurist, Academy of Financial Police
1997 — Economist, Zhetysu Economic University
Nikolay's professional qualities and achievements have been repeatedly recognized with departmental awards and honorary diplomas in the ranks of the customs service of the Republic of Kazakhstan:
- Certificate of Honor for impeccable work in the customs authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Badges "15 Years of Customs Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "20 Years of Customs Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
- Medal of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan "20 Years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
- Medal of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan "20 Years of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan"
- Badge "Honored Customs Officer of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
- Certificate of the World Customs Organization "For Contribution to the International Customs Community"
- Completed professional development courses under various programs:
- Customs Administration Course, Republic of Korea, at Shanghai Customs College
- Experience exchange with the Netherlands Administration in the field of knowledge and experience sharing within the framework of the project "Development of the Customs Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
- Comprehensive support for a major Kazakhstani telecommunications company at the Appeals Commission of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan to appeal actions by the customs authority regarding additional assessments. As a result, additional assessments of 1.6 billion tenge were cancelled.
- Comprehensive support for a branch of a foreign oilfield services company during a customs inspection by the territorial department of state revenues led to its successful completion. The amount of additional assessments under the Notice in the amount of 1.5 billion tenge was cancelled.
- Successful support during customs inspections (without additional assessments) of participants in foreign economic activity in various areas (telecommunications, direct sales, trade, geological exploration and oil prospecting) by the customs authorities of state revenues.