LEGATE Law Firm took part in the International Legal Forum “IBA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum 2019”, which was held from October 31 to November 2, 2019 in Tbilisi (Georgia).
The Forum was attended by managing partners, practice leaders, legal advisers representing the ECA region.
During the Forum, a lot of topical issues, new trends and modern challenges facing the legal profession in the region were highlighted.
In addition to discussing current issues of the legal services market and professional legal activities, an excellent cultural program was offered as part of the IBA ECA Forum.
It was very nice to meet our foreign colleagues, with whom not only cooperation but also long-term friendship are closely connected, to meet new participants, and exchange views on the most pressing issues.
The amendments to Uzbekistan's legislation, which introduced the concept of "Abuse of Law" into the Tax Code, are currently causing many questions and ambiguous interpretations. In accordance with Article 14 of the Tax Code of Uzbekistan: if a taxpayer performs operations or a series of operations, the sole or primary purpose of which is to obtain an unjustified tax benefit in the form of non-payment or reduction of taxes owed, such actions are considered an abuse of rights for the purposes of this Code.
"Never say that you know a person if you have not divided an inheritance with them" (Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, poet, and philosopher). Time has accelerated its pace: years pass by like days, and days fly by so quickly that you hardly notice them. Everything around us is changing rapidly, but the human desire to live in happiness and prosperity has remained unchanged throughout the centuries. Confidence in the future, the belief that what has been earned and accumulated will “serve” children, and possibly grandchildren, is also an understandable human desire. What opportunities does the law provide for the realization of all of the above? Naturally, we are talking about inheritance law. In Uzbekistan, expressing one's will by leaving orders regarding one's property in case of death is not as popular as, for example, in European countries. Perhaps, the reason lies in the traditional patriarchal way of life, habitual for the people, where the word of a man - the head of the family - has supreme power and does not require legal formalization.