PhD Bartosz Kubista

Managing Partner (Tax), Attorney-at-law | Tax advisor

Professional profile

Associated with GLC since August 2012. Barrister and tax advisor. Doctor of legal sciences. Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in the Financial and Tax Law Team and at the Academy of WSB in Dąbrowa Górnicza. Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Silesian Branch of the National Chamber of Tax Advisers of the 6th term of office.

He specialises in tax law, in particular transfer pricing, income taxes and tax proceedings. Author of numerous scientific publications on tax law and participant of scientific conferences on tax law.

Active trainer and coach. He has more than five hundred training hours to his credit, including as part of training courses delivered to the National Chamber of Tax Advisors and public finance sector entities.

Achievements

Winner of the prestigious Rising Stars: Lawyers – Leaders of Tomorrow 2021 competition organised by Wolters Kluwer Polska, which rewards young lawyers who stand out for their knowledge, work for society and the rule of law, creativity and use of new technologies in their work and the highest standards of legal services. He was also nominated for this award in 2020.

In 2023, he was included in the List of 50 male and female lawyers to watch on LinkedIn, in a poll organised by Legal Marketing magazine.

From 2018 to 2022 Member of the National Council of Tax Advisers of the 6th term of office, where he served as Chairman of the Informatisation Committee and Chairman of the Committee for the development of the Code of Conduct of the National Chamber of Tax Advisers in the field of personal data.

In 2018-2022 Member of the New Tax Professionals Committee at CFE Tax Advisers Europe, an international organisation of tax advisers from Europe.

In 2021-2022 Member of Working Group No. 11 of the Transfer Pricing Forum at the Ministry of Finance.

Author of the monograph “Transfer pricing as an instrument for the protection of taxpayer rights”, published by Wolters Kluwer Polska.

Co-author of the publication Lex without tears. A legal first-aid kit, a guide to the basics of the legal system in Poland addressed to young people.

One of the co-founders, and between 2013 and 2015 President of the Board of the Association for the development of legal awareness of young people “Street Law – Katowice”, conducting free training and workshops on the basics of law for secondary school students from the Silesian Voivodeship.

Education

In 2022 he defended his doctorate at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia for his dissertation entitled. ‘Transfer pricing as an instrument for the protection of taxpayer’s rights.

In 2017, he was entered on the list of attorneys of the District Bar Association in Katowice, where he also completed his legal training.

In 2014 entered on the list of tax advisors.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice (master’s thesis on transfer pricing).

During his studies with the team of the University of Silesia, he took second place at the Draft Common Frame of Reference Warsaw International Arbitration Moot at the Court of Arbitration at the PCC. He also represented the University of Silesia twice as a team member in the prestigious international arbitration competition Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna.

ACTIVITY IN THE PROFESSIONAL BODY OF TAX ADVISORS

Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Silesian Branch of the National Chamber of Tax Advisers (since 2022)

Member of the National Council of Tax Advisers of the 5th term (2018-2022)

Member of the Expert Team for Criminal and Fiscal Matters at the National Council of Tax Advisers (since 2017).

Publications

Full list of publications to download and copy on: Personal profile – Bartosz Łukasz Kubista – University of Silesia

Interests

Role-playing games (RPG), computer graphics and design, keen supporter of Arsenal London.