World Tax - Home
The comprehensive guide to the world's leading tax firms

The Deloitte tax practice includes 179 full-time tax professionals including 10 partners and is managed by Tomas Seidl.The team, whose work includes advisory services related to grants and incentives, research and development (R&D) tax relief as well ... [more]

The Deloitte tax practice includes 179 full-time tax professionals including 10 partners and is managed by Tomas Seidl.

The team, whose work includes advisory services related to grants and incentives, research and development (R&D) tax relief as well as transfer pricing and customs and excise taxes, works closely with the accounting and payroll services departments, enabling them to deliver comprehensive advice to clients.

Marek Romancov is well known in the market as a skilled transfer pricing adviser. A feature of the service he and his transfer pricing colleagues offer is advice on negotiating bilateral advance pricing agreements.

The Ernst & Young tax team of more than 100 professionals works across a broad range of business lines. Libor Frýzek, an international tax and transfer pricing specialist, leads the division.The team is divided into specialist areas, each with a lead ... [more]

The Ernst & Young tax team of more than 100 professionals works across a broad range of business lines. Libor Frýzek, an international tax and transfer pricing specialist, leads the division.

The team is divided into specialist areas, each with a lead partner. The transaction tax work is led by René Kulínský, business tax services by Ondřej Janeček and indirect tax by Jan Čapek.

The firm's clients include multinational enterprises and large Czech companies as well as medium and smaller local entities.

The team advises clients on planning to mitigate tax risks in cross-border transactions across a broad range of industry sectors.

KPMG's tax department is headed by Jan Žůrek who manages a team of eight partners and 108 fee earners.The firm is highly regarded by its competitors, who highlight Marika Konečná for her transfer pricing skills.The key business lines the firm focuses ... [more]

KPMG's tax department is headed by Jan Žůrek who manages a team of eight partners and 108 fee earners.

The firm is highly regarded by its competitors, who highlight Marika Konečná for her transfer pricing skills.

The key business lines the firm focuses on are corporate tax, indirect tax, international tax, M&A, tax outsourcing and transfer pricing.

Alfery & Partner specialises in advising international businesses on domestic and international tax law, transfer pricing and tax litigation.The practice head is Jana Alfery, who leads a team of five partners and 26 fee earners. Alfery is highly regarded ... [more]

Alfery & Partner specialises in advising international businesses on domestic and international tax law, transfer pricing and tax litigation.

The practice head is Jana Alfery, who leads a team of five partners and 26 fee earners. Alfery is highly regarded as a tax lawyer by peers and clients.

"We have been working with them for a year for tax advice. They are very professional and very reliable and know what they are doing," one client said.

In 2011, Alfery & Partner became a member of the WTS Alliance, which has a network of tax firms in 27 countries.

Alfery and Vladimír Brejcha advised Bühler Motot on a dispute over the appeal of a decision of the Financial Administration on transfer pricing. Martina Kvietková and Hana Sohrová have also been active on similar matters over the past 12 months. Other work involves corporate and commercial deals, including M&A.

The firm's clients include those in the real estate, energy, service, automotive, processing and IT industries.

Dentons is praised by clients for its commitment to difficult tasks. "We hired them because we had a difficult problem to solve. We had to establish a permanent establishment of our Luxembourg companies in the Czech Republic. It took a long time to ... [more]

Dentons is praised by clients for its commitment to difficult tasks.

"We hired them because we had a difficult problem to solve. We had to establish a permanent establishment of our Luxembourg companies in the Czech Republic. It took a long time to be resolved but at the end it was resolved with satisfaction," explained one client.

Petr Kotáb is head of the tax department which includes two fee earners. Kotáb is highly regarded by peers and visible across a range of deals. In November 2011, he assisted a client in connection with a consignment of mineral oils transported from one EU member state to another via the Czech Republic. The consignment was seized by Czech customs authorities.

This matter demonstrated, the team believes, how a harmonised area of excise duties within the EU can still generate problems due to differing national laws. Non-fuel mineral oil that is not subject to excise duties in the countries of origination and destination was considered as possibly taxable in the Czech Republic and therefore seized for non-compliance with the local conditions of transportation of taxable goods.

In other notable work, Kotáb and Juraj Alexander advised a bank on its financing of a mixed-use building and its development into apartments.

The firm is also continuing to advise a client about the design and implementation of a tax-optimised model of operation in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

White & Case focuses on international tax structuring and M&A work as well as corporate tax and VAT. The tax division is managed by Ales Zidek and includes two partners and five fee earners.A notable example of its work this year was advice Zidek and ... [more]

White & Case focuses on international tax structuring and M&A work as well as corporate tax and VAT. The tax division is managed by Ales Zidek and includes two partners and five fee earners.

A notable example of its work this year was advice Zidek and Michal Gregor gave to a Czech company in connection with the preparation of a group structure for investment into renewable energy projects. The matter is still not complete.

Zidek and Gregor have also been assisting AVAST Software, a successful Czech software company, with its expansion to the US. The advice included the preparation of an initial public offering (IPO), which was the first by a Czech company in America.

The practice also deals frequently with VAT issues during its transactional work or as a part of tax advisory services.

The tax division at Kocián Šolc Balaštík includes one partner and five fee earners. The team is under the leadership of Helena Navratilova who has been active across a range of transfer pricing and corporate tax matters."We used the firm for tax appeal ... [more]

The tax division at Kocián Šolc Balaštík includes one partner and five fee earners. The team is under the leadership of Helena Navratilova who has been active across a range of transfer pricing and corporate tax matters.

"We used the firm for tax appeal and advisory in general," said one client. "I would use them again, they were dedicated and able to deliver the final project."

Navrátilová and Alena Jurič advised Viscofan on tax and accounting matters in connection with the group's restructuring of the Česká mincovna company. Transactions included the sale of an enterprise and a merger.

Navrátilová and Jan Černohouz represented Michel Thierry Group companies on the tax treatment of shared costs of intra-group services. The matter was significant due to deployment of new manufacturing, R&D and marketing models.

The practice is also active in advising on cross-border tax aspects of international holding structures, unit funds' investments, life insurance products, international assignments, taxation of income of sportsmen and artists and revenue channelled through tax transparent entities.

Weinhold Legal's tax department is headed by Daniel Weinhold who manages a team of two partners and two fee earners.Weinhold and Tillow Hoffman are highly thought of by clients for corporate tax matters "Both are very expert in their affairs. When we ... [more]

Weinhold Legal's tax department is headed by Daniel Weinhold who manages a team of two partners and two fee earners.

Weinhold and Tillow Hoffman are highly thought of by clients for corporate tax matters "Both are very expert in their affairs. When we have new issues they would be our first contact," says one.

The firm is especially recognised for its handling of tax litigation matters. Notable work over the past year includes advising a significant German real estate investment company, which has a branch and distributed funds in the Czech Republic, on an income tax-related matter. The firm was able to achieve a positive result in favour of the client and overturn a previous regional court decision.

The team also represented an automotive company, part of larger US based group in three tax litigation matters. The judgments in all three cases were in the client's favour.