JOANNA STOLAREK
Tax advisor
Joanna Stolarek specializes in tax law and compliance management. She is a tax advisor with many years of experience and a certified Compliance Office, as well as a member of the Tax Council of the Lewiatan Confederation.
She has a wealth of experience in tax and social insurance consulting, including with regard to developing and implementing incentive schemes for management executives, managing workers posted to and from Poland, developing and implementing remuneration structures, restructuring employment systems, designing and implementing cost efficiency solutions for business, as well as assessing the tax effects of marketing campaigns and loyalty programs.
Joanna has conducted numerous tax and transactional due diligence reviews, advised clients on property, inheritance and gift/donation taxes, as well as on day-to-day business issues.
Joanna regularly supports clients in developing policies and internal regulations, e.g. with regard to MDR and compliance reporting, as well as personal data protection.
Her experience includes preparing tax and legal opinions, contract drafting and representing clients before tax authorities and administrative courts.
Joanna has authored numerous publications and spoken at many conferences and seminars. In 2017, she came second in the "PIT" category in the Ranking of Tax Consultancies and Advisors by the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna broadsheet. She co-authored the book titled "Compliance Management Systems – Compliance in Practice", soon to be published by Wolters Kluwer.
Joanna speaks fluent English.
Selected experience:
- Carrying out a project to restructure employment and remuneration systems in a media group.
- Advising on implementation of incentive programs for Polish companies, as well as issuing legal opinions on tax and social security implications of incentive programs implemented by foreign parent companies, in particular from France, Germany, the UK, US and the Netherlands.
- Advising on inheritance and donation tax in one of the largest cases of this type in Poland.
- Advising on acquisition of a Polish cosmetics manufacturer by a private equity fund.
- Implementation of policies to prevent MDR reporting failures, in particular in several consulting firms.
- Development and implementation of an anti-corruption policy and a compliance reporting policy for a leading Polish feed producer.
- Many years of consulting marketing and loyalty programs for a leading international corporation originally based in France.
- Implementation of GDPR laws in companies from various industry sectors, such as IT, manufacturing and online stores.
- Advising on acquisition of a Swiss medical company.
Previous Experience:
- Managing Associate, Ożóg Tomczykowski Law Firm, June 2014 – July 2019
- Senior Consultant, PwC, September 2004 – May 2014
Admissions:
- Tax advisor, since 2008
- Certified Compliance Officer, since 2017
Education:
- University of Łódź, Master of Laws – 2004