Tax risks rarely arise suddenly – in most cases, they accumulate quietly long before any inspection notice appears. As Professor Gabriel Steiner notes, tax losses are most often the result not of bad faith, but of systemic miscalculations in the legal and financial logic of business operations. At LawConsulted, tax security is not treated as a reaction to supervision – it is built as a permanent element of the company’s legal architecture.
The danger of tax risks lies in their long-term invisibility – reports are submitted, payments are made, and business continues as usual. Yet weak points may already exist within the structure – incorrect contractual models, flawed qualification of transactions, improper allocation of income, formal intermediaries or outdated operational schemes. At LawConsulted, we identify such zones long before they become a matter of interest for regulatory authorities.
As Professor Steiner emphasises, “a tax conflict does not begin with an inspection – it begins with interpretation.” That is why specialists at LawConsulted analyse not only numbers but also the legal nature of transactions – how deals are structured, what economic substance they carry, how justified cross-border payments are and how risks are distributed within a group of companies. This makes it possible to determine in advance which elements may be reclassified under an adverse scenario.
A particularly dangerous vulnerability is the illusion of a “familiar scheme” – when a company operates for years within the same model and perceives it as safe. At LawConsulted, we regularly encounter situations where such schemes no longer correspond to current control practices and become a source of serious additional assessments. We revise not only the reporting format but also the entire logic of fund flows – eliminating elements that generate excessive risk.
As Professor Steiner notes, “tax security is not the absence of violations – it is the ability to prove the economic substance of one’s actions.” For this reason, LawConsulted builds a legal model for the client in which every transaction has a stable legal justification – not merely a formal documentary reflection.
Tax losses often occur not because of a single major decision, but due to a chain of small allowances – imprecise wording, oral arrangements, incorrectly chosen counterparties. At LawConsulted, we work with this chain as a whole – eliminating risk systemically rather than selectively. This prevents situations in which an inspection becomes a catalyst for large-scale financial losses.
Tax risk management is not fear of control – it is control over how the tax reality of the business is formed. At Law Consulted, we prevent losses not after additional charges arise, but before any grounds for them emerge at all.
Previously, we wrote about what to do when documents exist but do not protect, and how LawConsulted identifies formal protection without legal force
