Tax adviser with over twenty years of practice. Expert on Polish and international tax law. She provides services to businesses operating in the construction, leasing, automotive and investment sectors. She has extensive experience in taxation of investment processes, real estate deals, leasing agreements, business financing agreements, as well as intra-group settlements and transfer pricing documentation.
Her advice includes in particular
- advice on investment and restructuring processes;
- advice on real estate trading;
- advice on financial and leasing transactions;
- advice on WHT matters;
- advice on transactions with affiliated entities and preparation of tax documentation;
- advice on taxation of Polish and foreign employees and managers;
- advice to and representation of taxpayers in disputes with tax authorities.
Selected projects
- tax advice on transferring a sales function of a production-commercial company and rules of determining a transfer price;
- tax advice regarding a structure and taxation of a real estate project;
- tax advice regarding the withholding tax on foreign intangible services provided for a Polish company;
- tax advice to a German leading construction company on several transactions of selling production and commercial properties;
- tax advice to an owner of shopping centres on their sale;
- optimisation of trading shares in a real estate company for one of German leading construction companies;
- tax advice to a German group of companies on cross-border taxation of goods deliveries to trade chains in Poland;
- preparation of a comprehensive transfer pricing documentation to a client specialising in production and sale of construction materials;
- advice on tax issues relating to leasing and lease of vehicles to a leading company from the automotive sector;
- representation of a German company before a Polish tax office regarding VAT return;
- representation of a German client in tax proceedings and before the administrative court regarding the withholding tax on capitalised interest on shareholder’s loans.
Professional experience
- since 2010 JDP DRAPAŁA & PARTNERS
- 2001–2009 Beiten Burkhardt
- 2000 Pünder
- 2000–2001 Clifford Chance
- 1998–1999 Rödl & Partner
- 1992–1997 Chamber Office in Opole (head of department)
Education
- 1993–1994 Financial Studies Centre, Warsaw School of Economics, part of the Ministry of Finance’s programme
- 1986–1991 Wrocław Academy of Economics, Faculty of National Economy
