Tax and Customs Law

Ukraine’s tax and customs legislation changes dynamically, creating additional challenges for businesses. Reporting errors, suspension of tax invoices or cargo delays at the border may lead to multimillion losses.

KAVCHUK & PARTNERS Law Office provides comprehensive legal protection in taxation and foreign economic activity. We help lawfully optimise financial processes and the tax burden, and confidently navigate inspections.

Stages and components of our service

Our legal support covers the full cycle of client protection — from day-to-day consulting to representation in court.

1. Tax consulting and structuring (Risk audit)

• Audit and review: we analyse your company’s current financial model and identify hidden tax risks and vulnerabilities.
• Lawful optimisation: we develop efficient and lawful approaches to reducing the tax burden for domestic operations and foreign economic activity.
• Consulting: we provide guidance on the application of tax legislation to help avoid penalties.

2. Support during tax audits and protection against supervisory authorities

• Team preparation: we brief personnel and prepare the company for visits by tax inspectors.
• On-site support: our lawyers are present during scheduled and unscheduled audits and monitor the legality of inspectors’ actions.
• Unblocking tax invoices: we prepare explanations and supporting document packages to remove a company from the risk list and unblock tax invoices/adjustment calculations.

3. Comprehensive support for customs procedures (Foreign trade)

• Customs clearance: we advise on classification of goods under the Ukrainian Classification of Goods for Foreign Economic Activity (UCGFEA) and determination of the correct customs value.
• Border disputes: we protect the client’s interests in cases of unjustified customs value adjustments or cargo delays.
• Challenges to decisions: we provide full legal support to cancel unlawful decisions adjusting customs value, customs clearance refusal cards and decisions changing the commodity code.

4. Administrative and judicial appeals

• Pre-trial resolution: we prepare objections to audit reports and complaints to higher-level bodies of the State Tax Service or State Customs Service.
• Court representation: we challenge unlawful tax notices-decisions, customs penalties and decisions on customs rule violations before courts of all instances.
• Recovery of funds: we support the return of overpaid or unlawfully collected tax and customs payments.

What do you receive as a result?

• Financial security: minimisation of risks related to penalties, late-payment interest and additional assessments.
• Confidence during audits: communication with tax authorities is handled through our lawyers, reducing pressure on your team.
• Uninterrupted logistics: rapid resolution of customs contingencies to avoid transport downtime.
• Resource savings: lawful mechanisms for preserving the company’s working capital.