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Artur is an economist and one of the most experienced transfer pricing experts in Poland. He specializes also in the area of tax effective supply chain management (from the perspective of international business expansions and business models restructurings – including tax effective intercompany transaction planning) as well as management /and optimisation of tax function effectiveness in enterprises / capital groups.

Professional experience

Artur possesses over 25-years of expertise in tax advisory for Polish capital groups and multinational corporations, including both domestic and international engagements.

During his professional career Artur had worked for over nine years within the Big Four, where he specialized in transfer pricing issues. In 2004, he became a manager in the transfer pricing group of Ernst & Young Poland. In 2006 he moved to Germany and worked as a manager for one of the Big Four's transfer pricing team in Munich until the end of June 2007. There he managed transfer pricing engagements for multinational enterprises (mainly from the US) operating primarily in Germany.

Between 2007 and 2011 he led the transfer pricing practice at Accreo Taxand – the Polish Member Firm of Taxand. He was also a member of Taxand's Global Transfer Pricing service line co-ordination Team. In 2010 and 2011, twice in a row, Taxand Poland's transfer pricing service line led by Artur received the "National Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year – Poland" award from International Tax Review magazine at the ITR Annual European Tax Awards in London.

Artur's experience includes:

• projects concerning tax effective supply chain management (e.g. from the perspective of international business expansions and business models restructurings, including tax effective intercompany transaction planning and aspects of compensation for restructurings, transfer of functions, business risks and intangibles);
• design and implementation of transfer pricing policies (including conversion processes using limited risk structures),
• transfer pricing risk valuation and management,
• transfer pricing defence during tax audits and administrative proceedings,
• APA negotiations,
• preparation of transfer pricing documentation.

Artur's experience covers also engagements covering optimisation of tax function effectiveness in enterprises and capital groups (including actions aimed at increasing of effectiveness and cost reduction of tax function execution and management, improvement of data quality, reduction of time and workload regarding tax settlements processes and quantity of documents prepared).

Industry specialisation

Artur possesses in-depth expertise in several industry sectors, including: fuel and energy, construction, rail and road infrastructure, transport and logistics, commercial real estate and development industry, FMCG, wine and spirits, and telecoms.

Lectures and publications

Artur frequently gives lectures on TP matters both in Poland (e.g. at conferences organized by the Institute for International Research, Top Consulting) as well as abroad (e.g. for VDMA [German Engineering Federation] in Frankfurt).

He has published several press articles on TP issues both Poland (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Rzeczpospolita, Przegląd Podatkowy, Harward Business Review) and abroad (International Tax Review, Euromoney). He is also co-author of the Taxand/IBFD Global Guide to Transfer Pricing (published in co-operation with International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation – IBFD), and Taxand's response to the OECD regarding changes to TP Guidelines for Multinational Corporations and Tax Administrations.