Martin Švalbach

Practice Areas

Corporate Tax Law, International Tax Law, Tax Aspects of Financial Instruments

Career

Martin Svalbach is an in-house tax advisor at PRK Partners whose main areas of practice

include corporate tax law, international tax law and tax aspects of financial

instruments.

He obtained a Master’s degree (Mgr.) from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Palacký

University in Olomouc, an M.A. degree in economics from Central European University in

Prague and an LL.M. degree from the International Tax Postgraduate Programme at

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. Before joining PRK Partners in 2014 he worked in the tax

department of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Prague (ten years), Deloitte (five years) and

BDO (five years).

Martin’s significant clients have included all major Czech financial groups, multinational

enterprises as well as individual investors.

Martin is a member of the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and a

registered tax adviser and member of the Chamber of Registered Tax Advisors of the

Czech Republic. Martin is recommended as an expert in tax law by Chambers Europe. He

is fluent in Czech and English.

Professional Memberships

• ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)

• Chamber of Registered Tax Advisors of the Czech Republic.

Publications

• Czech Republic: An Introduction to the Top-Up Tax, Issue 10.10 of the CEE Legal Matters Magazine (11/2023)

Clients

• Česká spořitelna, a.s.

• UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, a.s.

• PROFI CREDIT Czech, a.s.

• Raiffeisenbank, a.s.

Industry Sector Expertise

Deep expertise in domestic corporate taxation, cross-border tax regulations, and the tax implications of complex financial products.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

• Czech

Languages Spoken

• Czech

• English

Work Highlights

• VÚB (Czech branch) – assistance VÚB Prague branch with the preparation of the Czech corporate income tax returns, also Martin was involved in the provision of hot-line tax advisory on tax topics relevant for VÚB Prague branch.

• Česká spořitelna, a.s. – review of corporate income tax returns of Česká spořitelna, a.s., transactional advisory on intragroup reorganisations with the Erste group.

• Komerční banka a.s. – review of corporate income tax returns of Komerční banka, a.s. for the statutory audit purposes.

• UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, a.s. – preparation of the corporate income tax returns and ad-hoc advisory of tax issues of the UniCredit group in the Czech Republic.

• Raiffeisenbank, a.s. – corporate income tax return preparation, transactional tax advisory.

• Českomoravská záruční a rozvojová banka, a.s. – corporate income tax return preparation.

• INB Bank N.V., Prague branch – corporate income tax returns preparation and tax advisory.

• PROFI CREDIT Czech, a.s. – advisory on tax aspects related to the operations of the company and financing.

• Profidebt, s.r.o. (now Intrum Justitia Czech, s.r.o.) – general tax advisory on financing arrangements.

• RSJ Group – transactional advisory.

• AXA Group – preparation of corporate income tax returns of the companies from the group, tax advisory on receivables provisioning and enforcement, transfer pricing issues.

• UniCredit Leasing CZ, a.s. – corporate income tax return reviews and advisory on tax issues of Czech operations (hedging, group financing arrangements, etc.

Education

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