Alena has over 10 years of indirect tax experience in Russia and other EAEU countries

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

She also provided support to clients during field/desk VAT audits

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

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

Indirect tax

VAT

Global trade

State University under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation with a major in Accounting, Analysis and Audit

ACCA Diploma in Russian Tax (DipNRF)