HAVEL & PARTNERS, the largest Czech-Slovak law firm, has expanded its team specialising in tax litigation prevention and resolution to include two female experts having unique tax administration know-how. Hana Erbsová, who previously worked as a tax administration methodologist and head of department at the General Financial Directorate, and Alice Zemánková, who has experience as a legal expert at the Appellate Financial Directorate, have joined the tax and tax law group.

“We have our legal and tax services closely linked because we want to provide our clients with excellent comprehensive service as a one-stop shop. Our legal-tax practice is one of the fastest growing areas of HAVEL & PARTNERS' services, which is why we have strengthened our team with other experienced colleagues who specialise in tax litigation,” said Jaroslav Havel, managing partner of the firm.

“Both Hana and Alice are important and valuable additions as they bring unique know-how directly from the top tax administration authorities to the firm. We also have colleagues on our team who have worked on tax issues in the judiciary, including the Supreme Administrative Court. Thus, we bring to our clients a completely new dimension and a higher added value to our tax litigation service, which we now complement with an extremely valuable view of tax issues from the 'other side', i.e., from the side of the tax administrator and the authorities that decide on tax litigation matters,” said tax partner David Krch.  

Hana Erbsová has 15 years of experience in financial administration, including at the General Financial Directorate as a tax administration methodologist, and subsequently worked with leading international consulting firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte). Since 2018, Hana has been working as an attorney-at-law specialising in tax, international taxation, tax arbitration and tax litigation. She provides clients with comprehensive support in tax inspections and other stages of tax proceedings, as well as in proceedings before courts, including the Supreme Administrative Court, and in resolving double taxation disputes (tax arbitration). She also focuses on the area of the private law liability of executive bodies of legal entities for the fulfilment of tax and other public law obligations. Another specialisation of Hana Erbsová is representation of and legal assistance to clients in audits focused on compliance with subsidy conditions and in proceedings for the imposition of a levy for breach of budgetary discipline. 

Alice Zemánková specialises in tax law. Alice has experience from the Appellate Financial Directorate in Brno, where she prepared decisions and documents in appeal proceedings and worked as an expert advisor in the direct tax department. She also focuses on administrative law, in particular administrative proceedings and administrative court proceedings, and public procurement issues.

HAVEL & PARTNERS' specialised tax law group currently has a stable team of more than 15 associates and tax advisors with many years of experience (10 to 20 years), as well as extensive experience in representing multinational corporations and the world's major players in the respective fields.