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Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax

Jānis Taukačs

Vieglas diskusijas par dzīvi, biznesu un nodokļiem ar līderiem savās kompetences jomās. Abonējiet, lai nepalaistu garām neko svarīgu: www.taukacs.blog Light discussions about life, business and tax, with leaders in their areas of expertise. www.taukacs.blog

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00:55:10

Kaspars Daugavins (NHL, KHL) on taxation in sports

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2022/01/23

A full description of the episode is here: https://taukacs.blogspot.com/2022/01/kaspars-daugavins-podcast-on-taxation.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janistax.substack.com For any questions please contact the author of the podcast: https://www.sorainen.com/people/janis-taukacs/

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00:54:59

Edward Mwachinga (Kenya) & Theophilus Tawiah (Ghana)...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/12/02

Giving back to the communityI had a lot of respect for my guest right at the start of the conversation when they told about their community work they do besides the work. How many of us can tell that one is at the board of a school or sponsoring a football club (Green Eagles)? On happiness and motivationIt appears the tax lawyers in Africa are not that different from the ones in the other continents – the are happy, if they make other people happy, and they get pumped up to do more by getting energy

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01:08:56

Richard Asquith (VAT Calc, UK) on VAT & technologies

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/11/15

Richard Asquith is CEO of VAT Calc – VAT & technology company, making the global VAT compliance as easy as at all possible. He is also a winner of International Tax Review's ‘Tax Innovator of the Year’ award. Richard was also a VP of Avalara, and before that was working for Big 4s in the UK, Hungary, Russia, France and the US. On literature, relations & wineBut we start our chat with Moscow, English and Russian romantic classic literature, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog story. Love

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01:03:09

Janis Zelmenis (BDO) - The Latvian taxation 100 years...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/10/10

Janis Zelmenis is a Chairman of Management Board & Equity Partner at BDO Latvia, and one of the most prominent tax experts in Latvia. The Chambers Europe wrote: “Janis Zelmanis absolute knowledge of local and international legislation makes him one of the most frequently quoted personality in media widely. Janis is also an author of the book “Pendulum of Wealth” published in Latvian and Russian languages in December 2015 that is devoted to international tax planning and privatization of Ventspils

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00:59:05

Harriet Brown (UK barrister) and Grahame Jackson...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/09/30

Harriet Brown and Grahame Jackson are authors of a podcast International Tax Bites that explains different tax concepts. They both in September 2021 released a book "A Practitioner's Guide to International Tax Information Exchange Regimes", published in September 2021 by www.spiramus.com. Harriet practices tax in the UK, but Grahame – in Gibraltar. We discussed their careers, the podcast, the book and the global tax issues at large. GibraltarWe start with discovering Hassans International Law Firm

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00:42:21

Bill Browder (Hermitage Capital) on the Magnitskiy case

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/09/19

Bill BrowderBill Browder after the murder of his tax lawyer Sergey Magnitskiy gave up his life as a businessman and became a human rights activist. He was a founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, which was the investment adviser to the largest foreign investment fund in Russia until 2005. He is also an author of the book "Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice" – on Magnitskiy case, one of the biggest tax fraud in the world ever. USD 230 m capital

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00:40:52

Ronny Langer (KMLZ) on his Tier 1 VAT boutique

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2021/09/12

VAT & Customs boutiqueRonny was modest to relate this great achievement to a lack of competition (at least initially). He was also inspired at the beginning by the UK consultants who said that about 40% of their work is in VAT advice. More VAT than management Despite the company management duties Ronny still does client work ca 50-60% of his time. Being in a good shape technically gets the clients’ trust. For the business the international expert groups are also important, like VAT Europe network of

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00:48:07

Michael Keen (IMF) & Joel Slemrod (University of...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/08/02

We started with a brief chat about Belarus – Joel’s ancestors come from there and Michael remembers his mission to Belarus in mid-90ies to help them with the tax policy issues. Joel used to play some tennis, golf and basketball. Michael is Chelsea supporter and was a bit bitter to remember the disappointment at the recent European Championships finals at the Wembley. Why tax?Michael started working with tax because of an inspiring mentor and teacher at the Oxford University. Joel told a similar

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01:09:10

Jens Svolgaard (Bolt) on e-commerce & personal...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/07/11

Jens Svolgaard – Getting inside ourselvesBoltIt takes a while to describe the complexity of different disruptive ideas Bolt (an Estonian unicorn with ~3k employees, 50M customers, 1.5m drivers in 40+ countries, 95% of drivers rated 4.9) has already implemented. Bolt scooter rides are now available in more than 100 cities across Europe, that highlights the company’s sustainability focus. GuitarsDavid Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Angus Young (AC/DC), Slash (Guns N’ Roses) – are the favourite guitar players

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00:44:16

Clemens Nowotny & Hannes Gurtner (LeitnerLeitner,...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/06/30

For many years both, Dr. Hannes Gurtner and Dr. Clemens Nowotny are tax partners of a leading tax firm in Austria and CEE – LeitnerLeitner. Hannes is specialised on VAT, but Clemens – on international tax, although both are auditors as well. Social media, reading, direct contactWe started the conversation about LinkedIn and social media at all – Hannes is not there, because he rather prefers a personal contact. This seems to be a luxury Hannes enjoys – not to check the screens every 5 minutes and

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00:35:56

Meir Linzen (Herzog, Fox & Neeman) - How can I pay...

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2021/06/08

Mair Linzen manages to chair both the largest law firm of Israel (Herzog, Fox & Neeman) and its best tax practice, as recognised by many independent reviews. Links with LatviaWe started the conversation with a fact that not many in Israel now the Baltic states and Latvia, but there is a lot in common. Meir’s spouse is from Latvia and he told about a lot of significant connections between those two countries – it was a miracle how a person with Latvian origins helped to preserve Hebrew language, for

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00:38:00

Tomasz Michalik (MDDP) - Indirect tax practice leader...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/05/24

VAT commentariesTomasz Michalik in not only a top tier tax partner of a top tier tax firm in Poland, but also an author of a more than 1000 pages book on commentaries to the Polish VAT law. Tomasz also described in short the essence of the VAT revolution for e-commerce as of 1 July 2021 throughout the EU – what are the main ideas and impact for consumers and businesses. One major change he highlighted is that the traders from outside the EU will not be able to sell to EU consumers without VAT under

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01:19:57

Itzik Amiel (hub.theswit.ch) - The Attention Switch

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/05/17

Moving to the NetherlandsThe fascinating story of Itzik’s life and career at this podcast starts like many life events - by chance. Itzik started teaching at universities because a professor got ill and needed a substitute. Then he moved to study international tax in Leiden, the Netherlands when in the first LLM program there were just 5 students. RelationsItzik suggests that relationships are built for reason, season or lifetime. Investing into people with whom you would like to have relations for

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00:48:59

Viktor Machekhin (Linklaters) & Roustam Vakhitov...

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2021/05/03

Russian classicsWith both prominent tax experts from Russia - Viktor Machekhin and Roustam Vakhitov we start the chat with what was education and taxation like during the Soviet times. The discussion unwinds when Viktor dives into Gogol’s Dead Souls, Saltykov-Shchedrin’s History of a Town and other Russian classics that are actually tax-based stories. The outcome of the latter story seems very relevant for today’s governments, after 2.5 centuries – just let people do what they like to do and they

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00:43:27

Guglielmo Maisto (Maisto e Associati) - Keys to success

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2021/04/25

Constant personal growthProfessor Maisto even now when seemingly he has achieved everything in his life continues to learn. He tries to get his pilot license. And that probably is a fair description of such great minds – they never stop learning. Mr. Maisto likes them both - the practice and academic work, perhaps he feels a bit more more as a practitioner rather than academic, because the the problem solving ability comes to light more easily meaning that you see more easily the practical outcome

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00:48:18

Tanel Molok (Bolt) & Kaido Kunnapas (Sorainen) - the...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/04/15

The only way for a small country Hobbies. In this episode Kaido explains about break-dancing that it will be in Paris Olympic games and how to measure who is a better dancer. We spoke about crypto-currencies, that it’s now still a bit like when Estonia got back its independence and there were not that many regulations, but it’s here to stay. Authorities. My attempt to get a story about movie Tenet that was filmed in Estonia failed, but Tanel shared insights on how tax authorities got as

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2:54

Trailer - Episode 5

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/04/04

On footballWe started the conversation with.. football. One guess why the football related tax scandals occurred might be a bad choice of external tax consultants. This presents a wider problem – the tax is so complex that for ordinary people (also football players in this sense) is difficult to choose if the structure presented by a consultant is too aggressive. Tax storyThe Accountant is the movie that comes to Karl’s mind when thinking of a tax story. This made his friends wonder is a tax is

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00:32:14

Karl Berlin (Orsted) on sustainability & transparency

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/04/01

On footballWe started the conversation with.. football. One guess why the football related tax scandals occurred might be a bad choice of external tax consultants. This presents a wider problem – the tax is so complex that for ordinary people (also football players in this sense) is difficult to choose if the structure presented by a consultant is too aggressive. Tax storyThe Accountant is the movie that comes to Karl’s mind when thinking of a tax story. This made his friends wonder is a tax is

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1:34

Trailer - Episode 4

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/03/21

Wim shares his vision on:- how has the tax advice changed since Wim was a head of tax of a multinational company comparing to now when he is a head of a global advisory firm; - why did he choose tax advice as a profession; - where he sees a benefit of Tax Stories podcast; - his book - On a Journey. A vision of International Tax Management;- what is the difference between working for a multinational company vs a global advisory firm;- and of course - WTS Global. This is a public episode. If you

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00:47:23

Wim Wuyts (WTS Global) on the tax alternative to the...

Tax Stories: Life, Business & Tax ·

2021/03/20

How has the tax advice changed since Wim was a head of tax of a multinational company comparing to now when he is a head of a global advisory firm?The conversation started with.. my beloved John Grisham & The Firm, of course. How the non-transparent world of the times of The Firm changed to substance-over-form, transparency and data leakage. This has transformed the needs to manage the tax risks within companies – from complex rules still possible to explain to concepts now (like a fair share and a

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