Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Poland
Leszek Tokarski
Deloitte
ul Piekna 18
00-549 Warsaw
Poland
Tel: (48) 22 511 06 62
Fax: (48) 22 511 08 13
Email: ltokarski@deloittece.com
Website: www.deloitte.com
Leszek Tokarski is a partner leading the financial institutions services group of
Deloitte. He also heads the energy and fuel sector advisory team. Leszek specializes in
the provision of ad hoc advisory services to clients on taxation of services and financial
instruments, both on- and off-balance sheet items. He is also one of the few tax lawyers
in Poland specializing in securization transactions. Leszek advises a number of leasing
companies, both those dealing with small-ticket leasing and those engaged in
structured transactions of leasing of real property and objects of high value. He
conducts advisory services for many key banks, leasing firms and insurance companies,
and also as a proxy in tax and court proceedings.
During his three-year tenure with the Ministry of Finance, Leszek Tokarski worked on
a special team formed to establish new tax regulations in Poland after the
transformation of 1989. In particular, he was involved in developing the provisions of
the corporate income tax act, the act on tax on goods and services, and excise duty, as
well as the executive acts. He actively participated in the legislative process of these
acts and conducted training sessions in the legislation for fiscal authorities, state
institutions and private entrepreneurs.
From 1994 to 2000 he worked in the tax department of KPMG Polska and, after 1999,
as a partner in KPMG CEE. He advised clients from all industries on their tax
obligations in Poland, international tax law and business law. Between 1998 and 1999,
after the financial sector became consolidated in Poland, he created a financial
institutions’ division specializing in tax and legal services to banks, insurance
companies, leasing companies, and so on. He joined Deloitte as a partner in 2001.
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