Pawel Kuzmiak
Position:
partner, tax advisor
Areas of expertise:
current tax advisory, inheritance-and-gift-tax, new-tech, tax reliefs
Team:
tax
Languages:
English, German, Italian
Contact:
- Co-founder / Managing Partner of DSK
- Paul supports entities in the technology, creative, e-commerce, construction and automotive industries. Advises and manages cases involving tax planning, business organization, employment, forms of taxation, tax credits and preferences, and M&A processes
- Provides ongoing advice on CIT, VAT, PIT
- Supports clients in proceedings before tax authorities, administrative courts, civil courts (taxation expert) and criminal courts (defense support); conducted cases before the CJEU
- Oversees DSK’s tax practice, especially in serving IT companies, manages DSK’s law firm with other partners
- Creates, directs and works in interdisciplinary project and task teams
- Oversees and leads projects with M&A, including due diligence audits
- Managed teams that gave opinions and consulted on draft legislation in the field of tax law
- He has experience in inheritance and gift tax cases (precedent-setting decision of the Supreme Administrative Court in the June 6, 2018 rulings. (II FSK 1525/16 and II FSK 1526/16)
- Author of numerous articles, publications and training courses
- Permanent advisor and consultant to leading Polish innovative companies, especially IT and automotive
- Pioneer of the implementation of the Estonian CIT
- Graduate of law at the Faculty of Law of the Adam Mickiewicz University. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and Postgraduate Studies in Tax Law at the University of Wroclaw, and the Study of British and European Union Law at the University of Cambridge
- Privately – a husband and father. Passionate about playing soccer, skimboarding, snowboarding and automobiles. Guitarist, singer, songwriter, fan of British rock of the 1960s, 1970s and 1990s.
Selected experiences
- Permanent tax and legal advisor to Polish IT and IoT and automotive industry leaders
- Head of the expert team that gives opinions on behalf of the Polish IT industry on the drafts of tax legislation – including subsequent drafts of the Polish Order, the speculative law on aid to Ukraine
- Creator and presenter of seminars, trainings and consultations on forms of taxation, tax credits and preferences, and legal and tax organization of business – including seminars for more than 2,500 companies, employees and B2B associates in preparation for the changes introduced by the Polish Deal
- Oversaw the implementation of tax credits and improvements for companies (including IP, Box, R&D, 50%KUP, allowance for robotization, increased sales, for prototype and trial production)
- Attorney before WSA, NSA, common courts and CJEU
- Advises foreign entrepreneurs, including those from Ukraine, on business relocation to Poland and the EU
- Attorney in precedent-setting cases on. tax on inheritances and donations
