Italy-Kazakhstan Tax Forum 2012 - First Round Date: 9-10 February 2012 Location: KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan Organizers: CATRC and The University of Ferrara, with the support of KIMEP University and The European School of Advanced Tax Studies Sponsors: SITIE Impianti Industriali S.p.a. - Silver Sponsor, Kcell GSM Kazakhstan, Algiz Consulting and KIMEP Student Association Information Support: International Fiscal Association, Association of taxpayers of Kazakhstan, Eurobak Kazakhstan, American Chamber of Commerce
"Italy-Kazakhstan
Tax Forum" - is a bilateral event between two countries, the first round
of which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan on February 9th and 10th, while the
second round is planned to hold in Ferrara,
Italy. The
tangible results of the 2nd round should be a practical handbook for
businessman and investors from Italy
and Kazakhstan
to help them navigate the tax complexities of the two countries, and also
assisting them with international tax issues arising between the two countries.
During the
event, students and academics jointly studied the key features The Professor Vladimir Tyutyuryukov, CATRC, KIMEP noticed:"I was excited to see a lot of professionals from several regions of Kazakhstan who are interested in international taxation and who therefore joined our event - both as speakers and participants of the discussions. That is the kind of cooperation we would like to see in the Forums - and I am proud of our team who reached that goal. Another effect of the Forum was development of some ideas based on practice of European Union for future research related to Customs Union - or, rather, Common Economic Space."
 The program covered various aspects and provisions of tax law in both countries, starting from the very basics intro country rules and constantly deeping into specifics of different tax regimes and tax treaties’ conventions applied in both countries. For example, Professor Greggi (the University of Ferrara http://www.unife.it/en) presented on a very specific and pressing topic: “Special Anti-Avoidance Rules applicable to Kazakhstan - Italy business combinations and transactions”. But the most exciting and significant part of the program was session dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of bilateral tax treaty convention between Italy and Kazakhstan. In this part of the program also specialists from Algiz consulting company, Dana Tokmurzina and tax manager from ATF bank, Yelena Tyan took place. As whole, each part of the program was considered from two perspectives - Italian by: Professor Marco Greggi and 3 PhD students and by Kazakhstani: researchers from CATRC and 2 KIMEP Professors Tomas Balco and Vladimir Tyutyuryukov.
It’s essential to underline that the first round of Italy-Kazakhstan Tax Forum took place with the financial support from the Italian company SITIE Impianti Industriali S.p.a. (www.sitie.it), based in Ferrara, Italy. The company contributed to the event as a Silver Sponsor and thanks to it’s support the forum was successfully delivered. SITIE Impianti Industriali S.p.A. has been working since the 1945 in the field of electrical and instrumentation installations, executing different activities from the design up to commissioning and start-up. The wide spectrum of activities has given the company the opportunity to operate in the international market and to work for the most important customers in the chemical, petrochemical, oil and energy sectors, acquiring new advanced technologies and methodologies.  In the current moment, CATRC also actively works on establishing the mutual cooperation agreements with other universities from Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The forum was attended by students and professors of 2 other universities: The University of International Business (UIB) and Kazakh University of Economics named after T.Ryskulov. "Kazakhstan-Italy Tax forum created a great opportunity for practitioners of both countries for exchanging of experience and knowledge in Tax area. Current forum was a place to be for those who have the passion for taxation and who was willing to broad their outlook and make connection", -says Dana Yolo, the Professor from the Kazakh University of Economics. The Italy-Kazakhstan Tax Forum became an unique opportunity for academics and business practitioners from both countries to meet together, share and discuss the essential issues of taxation.    |
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Also, Hans
Holzhacker, the chief economist of ATF Bank participated in the forum with the
topic related 
At the same
time, Tomas Balco, the Associate Professor and School of Law, KIMEP University and
Director of CATRC noted: The 1st round is a result of almost 18 months of joint
work and cooperation between KIMEP and University of Ferrara, which has started
in Summer 2010 between Prof. Greggi and Prof. Balco, when Prof. Balco visited
the first event organized by University in Ferrara. Thereafter Prof. Greggi
visited Almaty in February 2011 and Prof. Balco again visited Ferrara in Summer 2011. The next logical step
was now to involve also students, who could start walking the bridge
established by the two professors between our universities. The first student
from KIMEP who will visit the University
of Ferrara is Xeniya Yeroshenko, who
will spend the Spring semester 2012 studying and researching under supervision
of Prof. Greggi in Italy.
I am pleased to see our students benefiting from the mutual relations started
at the Professor’s levels.