Income Taxes

We support you above all with the tax declaration and (ideally in advance) with planning considerations:

Tax declaration

• Income tax declaration
• Corporate tax declaration
• Assessments of the tax bases
• VAT returns
• Business tax returns (separation declaration if necessary)
• Inheritance and gift tax returns
• Tax returns (wage tax, sales tax, capital gains tax, etc.)
• Checking of tax assessments
• Deferral and reduction applications

Tax structuring advice

• Tax optimization of corporate strategy
• Business tax strategy analysis
• Change of legal form (conversion)
• Tax assessments on individual legal issues

International Tax Law

We advise in whatever cross-border tax issue you are facing - inbound as well as outbound.

Main topics are:

• Tax liability in Germany/abroad
• Permanent establishment taxation
• Group structure
• Self-employed work
• Rental income
• Cross-border commuter taxation in Austria and Switzerland
• Pension income (particularly US pensions).

We particularly focus on setting up foreign investments in Germany.

Inheritance and Gift Tax

We are there for you if you want to plan your asset succession early and actively. In this regard, we also provide outstanding support by lawyers from our network. Of course, we are also there for you if you have to cope with an inheritance and tax matters are still to be taken care of.

• General Advice on inheritance and gift tax law
• Determination of the tax burden and allowances for inheritance and gifts
• Inheritance tax valuation of real estate and land
• Development and implementation of your individual succession concept
• Considerations on optimizing gift/inheritance tax
• Tax savings with usufruct rights and generational planning
• Preparation and filing of gift tax declarations
• Preparation and filing of inheritance tax declarations.

Value Added Tax

We support you in all questions of sales tax law, e.g

• Chain/triangular transactions
• OSS-issues
• Consignment/commission warehouses
• Assembly activities abroad
• Import sales tax
• Sales tax business process impacts

Tax Compliance

We will discuss your business processes with regard to any tax risks and elaborate preventive measures and appropriate tax compliance documentation.

Representation in Tax Proceedings

We represent you to the German tax authorities in court.

Main areas of representation to the authorities are:

• objection proceedings
• tax penalty and fine proceedings
• tax audits and social security audits

Furthermore, we will represent you in

• the Fiscal Court,
• Federal Fiscal Court and
• in Corona matters also in the Administrative Court of first instance.