Aequo’s Tax Disputes team has successfully defended the interests of Oysho, a member of Inditex, the world’s biggest fashion group, in a tax dispute before the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal. Oysho was challenging a tax notice concerning on the grounds that it was exempt from taxes on royalty income derived from IP rights (licenses).
The Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal supported Aequo’s arguments that the tax notice contradicted both the Tax Code of Ukraine and the Convention between The Kingdom of the Netherlands and Ukraine for the avoidance of double taxation, and upheld the decision of the local administrative court in favor of Oysho.
The Aequo team was supervised by Managing Partner Denis Lysenko and included Senior Associates Yevgen Levitskyi and Myroslava Savchuk and Associates Vasyl Mishchenko and Anna Konovalova.
