International Tax Law

Investing and working in Germany

As expert consultants in international tax law, we support you with your business activities in Germany.

We support you in German accounting and your reporting, on both a German commercial law and IFRS basis.
We prepare your annual accounts in accordance with both German commercial law and IFRS.
We produce your German payroll accounting.
We help you undertake the registrations with authorities required in Germany.
We prepare your German tax returns.
We represent you in dealings with German tax authorities and in German finance courts.

We help you structure your involvement in Germany in an optimal way. In so doing, a great number of tax law provisions are to be taken into account, for instance regulations about

  • Transfer pricing and transfer of functions
  • Double taxation agreements
  • European law guidelines and jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice
  • Regulations on loss offsetting
  • Special documentation and disclosure obligations
  • Provisions on abuse

Your activities in Germany can be planned in a range of ways, for instance through

  • Direct business from abroad
  • Setting up a branch office, manufacturing site or sales agency in Germany
  • Participation in a German partnership
  • Founding a German limited liability company

We help you find the legal form that is optimal for tax purposes.

We support you with competent consultation in the following areas, amongst others:

  • International tax planning with holding structures
  • Optimising tax deducted at source
  • Issues of profit splitting between the domestic and foreign parts of the company
  • Transfer pricing and documentation
  • Cross-border value-added tax questions
  • Reimbursement of prepaid tax
  • Exemption procedures
  • Applying for tax deduction amounts for foreign artists, etc.