Attorney, Head of Tax and Customs Disputes practice

Yevgeny Porokhov

About

    With over 20 years of experience, he represents clients in high-stakes tax litigation and is widely regarded as the foremost authority on Kazakhstan tax law.
    He has authored four monographs and eleven textbooks, including Tax Law (2023), and Tax Disputes (2023).
    Prof. Porokhov contributed to the drafting of two Tax Codes and five Supreme Court’s regulatory resolutions (binding on lower courts) on tax disputes.  Currently, he serves on the Academic Advisory Boards of both the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan.

Education

Date

Institution

2009
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Doctor of Law
1998
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Candidate of Doctor of Law
1994
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University LL.B. (with honors)

Admissions

Almaty City Bar Association
All Courts in Kazakhstan

Publications

Author or co-author of more than 150 publications

Co-author of commentaries on the Tax Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 2017, 2008, 2001, and 1995

Author of commentaries on judicial practice on tax disputes, 2022

Tax Liability from Receiving Added Value (VAT), 2014

Sustainable Development of the Country and Legal Mechanisms for Implementing the Principle of Transparency in the Use of Funds of the National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2014

Tax Reforms and Development of Civil Society in Kazakhstan, 2013 (collective monograph)

    Theory and Practice of Tax Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Main Problems, 2009
      Authored Textbooks:

    Tax Law, 2023

    Tax Disputes, 2023

    Tax Obligation Law, 2020

    Administrative Procedures in Tax Law, 2017 (co-author)

    Administrative Liability for Tax Offenses (Commentary to Chapter 16 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Administrative Offenses in the Field of Taxation), 2015

    Tax Obligations: Lecture Course, 2013

    Administrative Law, 2010

    Theory of Tax Obligations, 2001

    Fundamentals of the State and Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1997 and 1999

    Administrative Law. Special Part, 1998