Professional experience
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Alena has over 11 years of indirect tax experience in Russia and other EAEU countries
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She contributed to a number of projects to analyze the VAT treatment of various transactions, including the procedure for determining the place of sale of services, export/import of goods, including to/from EAEU countries, separate accounting for input VAT
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She also provided support to clients during field/desk VAT audits
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Alena has extensive experience of participating in audit engagements to review VAT as well as in tax diagnostics and tax accounting methodology projects with a focus on VAT
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Alena implemented an ERP system for a major Russian energy company, which involved the updating of corporate VAT accounting principles for various transactions, designing a project solution to automate and develop uniform corporate tax accounting principles, and providing methodological support for various contentious issues relating to VAT process automation in the new ERP system
Competencies
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Indirect tax
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VAT
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Global trade
Education
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State University under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation with a major in Accounting, Analysis and Audit
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ACCA Diploma in Russian Tax (DipNRF)