Aleksandar Stefanov
Aleksandar is the founder and managing partner of the TAX COMPASS practice. He has been a practicing attorney since 2002 and a recognized tax consultant in the tax and legal community in Bulgaria and the region.
Aleksandar holds a Master’s degree in Law (2000) and Economics (2006) from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He has also completed several specialized training courses at the International Bureau for Tax Documentation (IBFD), Deloitte University, as well as the Leadership Development Program at Deloitte Central Europe.
He accumulated over 20 years of professional experience in:
- the tax and legal consulting departments of international and established local accounting and auditing companies (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC, AFA)
- law firms (CMS; Tabakov, Tabakova and Partners), and
- internal Tax Department as the Head of Tax in Sunotec Group.
This professional experience gives Aleksandar significant depth of expertise in various areas of tax law and financial accounting. His experience includes tax consultations and litigation in the field of VAT, international taxation, and the application of DTTs, tax due diligence, and assistance in asset transactions and business transfers, transfer pricing, and corporate income taxation.
In 2015, Aleksandar led the Deloitte team that conducted training for employees of the National Revenue Agency in the field of transfer pricing, funded under the Operational Program “Administrative Capacity”.
Since 2013, he has been a member of the IFA Bulgaria Association – the official branch in Bulgaria of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), the only non-governmental and non-profit international organization dealing with tax issues. Aleksandar has been elected as a member of the Management Board of the IFA Bulgaria Association since October 2024.
Participant in various working groups at the Ministry of Finance and the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation to introduce changes and amendments to the Bulgarian tax legislation in order to bring it into line with the current tax directives of the European Union.
Aleksandar participated as a speaker at the National Tax Expert Conferences during the period 2014-2019. Over the years, he has been the organizer and speaker of several trainings and practically oriented seminars in the field of international taxation, transfer pricing, annual tax closing, and tax dispute resolution with various types of audiences – corporate clients, chambers of commerce, regional audit organizations, the tax administration, and internal trainings.
