Presentation programme

By days

05 –08 June 2019

06 Jun
09:00–10:15
Focus on a healthy lifestyle: origin of coordinates on the path to national goals
Pavilion H, Presentation Area
Discussion

Carlsberg Breweries A/S

As part of a discussion on the implementation of national projects, companies that are members of Russia’s Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC) and representatives of government bodies will have an opportunity to exchange views on the social agenda. The discussion will focus on the following questions: Where do the strategic goals of business and the government overlap? What is needed to strengthen the actions taken by business and the government to promote a healthy lifestyle and ensure public health?


Moderator
Anna Guseva, Head of Transaction Advisory Services for Companies in Medical and Biological Industry in the CIS, EY

Panellists
Anders Bering, Vice President, Public Affairs and Media Relations, Carlsberg Group
Alexey Grigoriev,
Stuart Max Merrifield, Managing Director, Novartis Pharma LLC
Allyson Park, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Mars, Incorporated
Alexander Pirozhenko, Deputy General Director, ASI
Valery Fedorov, General Director, Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM)

06 Jun
10:30–11:45
Tax Monitoring: Trust-Based Online Interaction or Traditional Audits?
Pavilion H, Presentation Area
Session

EY, Federal Tax Service of Russia

Tax monitoring is form of tax administration and control that is new to Russia and based on the principles of transparency and trust between taxpayers and tax authorities. It replaces traditional audits with online interaction based on report access to the taxpayer’s information systems.

As of 2019, more than 40 major companies have already transferred to tax monitoring, 18 of them this year. Tax monitoring implies additional opportunities and advantages for participants, including:
– the company not having to undergo field and in-office tax audits;
– rapid period closing from the perspective of tax audits;
– an opportunity to receive “reasoned opinions” from the tax authority on matters of dispute relating to taxation of completed and future operations of the company, which, if followed, will release the company from fines and penalties.
Current participants in the tax monitoring system and representatives of the FTS of Russia in charge of the given sphere of FTS work will, as part of the presentation session, present and discuss the following topics:
– The key difference between tax monitoring and other forms of tax administration. What are the advantages for the taxpayer and the tax authority?
– How to prepare for participating in tax monitoring and how fast can the transfer to it be? What are the readiness criteria?
– Typical difficulties encountered by companies in preparing to transfer to tax monitoring
– Prospects for further improvement of the legislation on tax monitoring


Moderator
Irina Bykhovskaya, Partner, CIS Tax & Law Leader, EY

Panellists
Yuriy Bondar, Deputy managing director, Head of Department “Platform and Technologies”, SAP CIS
Maxim Vasilevsky, Vice President for Public Affairs, Mars, Incorporated in Russia
Pavel Gontarev, Head of B2B department, Mail.ru
Daniil Egorov, Deputy Head, Federal Tax Service of Russia
Dmitry Kornev, Director of Tax Administration Department, MTS OJSC
Marina Krasheninnikova, Deputy Head of the Desk Audit Directorate, Federal Tax Service of Russia
Mikhail Orlov, Chairman of the Expert Council of the Committee for Budget and Taxes of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Anna Plyakova, Deputy managing director, 1C

06 Jun
12:00–12:35
A ceremony to mark the signing of a Charter between the Union of Pediatricians of Russia and Sanofi
Pavilion H, Presentation Area


Signers
Leila Namazova-Baranova, Chair of the Executive Committee, Union of Pediatricians of Russia
Guillaume Haushalter, General Manager for Russia and Belarus, Sanofi Pasteur

06 Jun
12:35–13:15
A ceremony to mark the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) and Sanofi.
Pavilion H, Presentation Area


Signers
Olivier Charmeil, Executive Vice President, General Manager, General Medicines and Emerging Markets, Sanofi
Alexander Shokhin, President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

06 Jun
13:30–14:45
Hainan Province. Presentation of the region’s possibilities
Pavilion H, Presentation Area
Propaganda Department, CPC Party Committee, Haidan Province

“By 2050, the Chinese province of Hainan is targeted to become a unique international cluster with a mondernized economy, an FTZ, campuses of the most renowned universities, state-of-the-art scientific laboratories and the headquarters of global corporations,” according to the Communist Party Committee of the Hainan Province. Party members will present the investment and business opportunities offered by the island to the SPIEF participants, and explain how Hainan Province, China’s largest experimental FTZ, has fast tracked the construction of its free trade port.

Questions for discussion with participants of the presentation:

· What is unique about the Hainan Free Trade Zone (Port)?

· How can we open a company in Hainan today and get support from the Hainan administration?

· Business climate: how can foreign business overcome cultural and legal barriers?

· Which niche should a business in Hainan choose and why?

The event will also see the official opening ceremony of the special project ‘Charming Hainan – Island of Opportunity’ on the official website of the TASS Russian news agency.


Moderator
Nikolay Yakovlev, Director, Press Centre, Russian News Agency TASS

Panellists
Marat Abulkhatin, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russian News Agency TASS
Wu Bin, Deputy Head of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee
Fu Wei, Deputy Head of the Information Bureau of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee
Sun Dahai, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Party Committee; Deputy Head of the Office of the Committee for the Comprehensive deepening of Reforms; Deputy Head of the Office of the Working Committee on the Experimental Free Trade Zone of Hainan Province
Andrey Sokolov, Deputy Director General, TASS Russia

06 Jun
15:00–16:15
Hainan: the people’s culture and traditions
Pavilion H, Presentation Area
Propaganda Department, CPC Party Committee, Haidan Province

– Presentation of the region’s tourism image
– Getting to know the province’s spiritual and cultural heritage
– Performance by the Hainan Province song and dance ensemble


Moderator
Nikolay Yakovlev, Director, Press Centre, Russian News Agency TASS

Panellists
Marat Abulkhatin, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russian News Agency TASS
Sun Dahai, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Party Committee; Deputy Head of the Office of the Committee for the Comprehensive deepening of Reforms; Deputy Head of the Office of the Working Committee on the Experimental Free Trade Zone of Hainan Province
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06 Jun
17:00–17:30
Presentation of a Study on U.S.-Russian Trade and Economic Relations
Pavilion H, Presentation Area
The American Chamber of Commerce in Russia together with EY will present the results of a study that provides a realistic assessment of the development of American business in Russia


Panellists
Alexander Ivlev, CIS Managing Partner, Deputy Regional Accounts Leader for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia, EY
Alexis Rodzianko, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia