Polina Sachava

Polina Sachava
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Polina Sachava

Associate

Minsk, Belarus
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Polina Sachava is an associate at GRATA International and is the Head of the Tax Law practice. She involved in provision of legal services in practice areas of finance and securities, tax law, Data Protection & Privacy, contract law. She has specialized experience in international business structuring, sanctions compliance, managing risks of recognizing as permanent establishment for tax purposes, personal data protection.

Certified for provision of legal services by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus since 2023.

Honors:

  • 1st place in the team at the XX Open Student Olympiad in Legal Sciences of Grodno State University
  • The 2nd place in individual contest at the XX Open Student Olympiad in Legal Sciences of Grodno State University - 2019
  • 1st place in the team at the XVI Belarusian Law Students Olympiad -2020

Courses:

  • Course “Tax consulting of organizations, individual entrepreneurs and individuals" (Ministry of Finance of Belarus), 2022;
  • Course “Personal Data Protection”, 2023;
  • Certificate of attestation of a legal services provider issued by the Ministry of Justice of Belarus, 2023.

Industries

Banking & Finance

Practice areas

Employment

Tax

Corporate and M&A

Antitrust and Competition

Experience
  • Consulting on issues of personal data protection in Belarus
  • Performance of sanctions compliance for national entities and foreign entities with subdivisions in Belarus
  • Consulting on the issues of calculation and payment of income tax by foreign entities, value-added tax, transfer pricing and other tax issues
  • Drafting documents for public procurement procedures on the purchase of services
  • Consulting on the possibility of obtaining certificate of origin for the world's leading premium suppliers of pumps and pump systems
  • Supporting a project of entering a foreign shareholder through a convertible loan
  • Consulting on currency legislation, antimonopoly legislation, and legislation on the prevention of legalization of proceeds from crime, financing of terrorist activities and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
  • Providing legal advice on the implementation of new banking products, the use of bank payment cards, methods and requirements for the procedure for making settlements, including through the use of remote banking systems, requirements for entities organizing settlements
  • Consulting companies on possible risks of recognizing a permanent establishment for tax purposes
  • Consulting on taxation issues in the acquisition of real estate by a non-resident and the subsequent rent
  • Consulting on the regulation of the tourist activity, hotel services, online booking, online payment
  • Consulting on performance of tax inspections, drafting objections to the act of inspection
  • Consulting on possible risks of recognizing a permanent establishment for tax purposes
  • Consulting on advertisement activity

Publications

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Tax control and appealing its results in Belarus

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