Polina Sachava
Overview
Experience
Publications
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
Career:
2020-present - started as a paralegal
Education:
2016 -2020, Bachelor of law (Law Faculty of Belarusian State University)2020 -2021, Master's Degree (Law Faculty of Belarusian State University)2022 -2022, Сourse “Tax consulting of organizations, individual entrepreneurs and individuals" (Ministry of Finance of Belarus)Languages:
EnglishBelarusianPolishRussianIndustries
Banking & Finance
Practice areas
Employment
Tax
Antitrust and Competition
Commercial Contracts
Customs Law, International Trade & WTO
Experience
- Advising on possible risks of recognizing as a permanent establishment for tax purposes
- Drafting documents and supporting registration procedure at the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus for one of the world's leading payment service providers
- Advising one of the world's leading payment service providers on the introduction of new products in Belarus and updating the existing ones
- Sanctions compliance for national entities and foreign entities with subdivisions in Belarus
- Advising on the issues of calculation and payment of corporate income tax and VAT by foreign entities, transfer pricing, and other tax issues
- Elaboration of a scheme and drafting contracts for payment of bonuses from a foreign company to a Belarusian company with third party involvement considering the implementation of the new legislation on payment service providers
- Advising the Belarusian companies in the course of the antitrust law violation investigations held by the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade and drafting the related documents
- Drafting documents for an IT company to comply with personal data protection legislation
- Advising on issues of pricing regulation, including pricing of medical items
- Advising on currency legislation, antitrust and competition legislation, and legislation on the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing,
- Advising on the issues of 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
- Advising on taxation issues in the acquisition of real estate by a non-resident and the subsequent rent
- Advising on the regulation of tourist activity, hotel services, online booking, online payments
- Supporting Clients during tax inspections, drafting objections to the acts of inspection
- Advising on issues of personal data protection in Belarus
- Advising on advertisement activity, including one in the medical sphere
