Our law office also specialises in tax law. A specialised legal team led by the firm’s partner JUDr. Ondřej Moravec, Ph.D., is responsible for providing legal services in this area.

Tax law is no longer the domain of tax advisers and a jumble of legal rules separate from other areas of law. The knowledge of the links between the commercial and tax-related aspects of transactions becomes crucial for success. We do not refer clients to other advisers, but provide them with comprehensive consultancy. The harmonisation of VAT and the normative influence of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Supreme Administrative Court have made tax law a discipline that places high demands on the advisers’ knowledge, skills and experience.

Detailed knowledge of the case law (not only in the field of tax law, but also constitutional and EU law) and of the full context is no longer a bonus, but a necessary minimum standard. In providing legal services, specialised teams closely co-operate with other specialists employed by our law office, especially in the areas of acquisitions, insolvency and criminal law. When providing legal services, we always proceed in co-operation with the client’s tax (or other) advisors, or we can also arrange for the services of our partner tax advisors and auditors.

HJF’s services stand out from among those of other law firms thanks to the active participation of the law office’s experts in prestigious professional events. As such, they directly participate in the current events in the field and play a significant role in influencing its further development.

This approach has become the basis for some of the law office’s professional successes in this area, including the reintroduction of a tax discount for working pensioners in connection with the intervention of the Constitutional Court, the initiation of a discussion on the possibility of refunding the undisputed part of excess tax when a tax administrator initiates a tax audit, and the defence against retention orders.

JUDr. Ondřej Moravec, Ph.D. is a long-time external collaborator of the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno, a member of the Public Law Section of the Czech Bar Association and a founding member of the Taxpayers’ Union of the Czech Republic. In 2013, he won second place in the Talent of the Year category of the Lawyer of the Year competition.

Legal services provided:

• Representation in tax audits and other tax proceedings;
• Representation in disputes with tax authorities;
• Assistance in claiming damages caused by unlawful conduct of the tax administrator;
• Defence in tax matters;
• Preparation of legal analyses in the areas of tax law;
• Consultancy in disputes concerning the administration of subsidies (audits of the subsidy provider, tax audits, representation in matters of penalties for breach of budgetary discipline).