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During the course of the life of an individual, a partnership, or a corporation,
certain events such as birth/foundation, marriage/merger, divorce/split,
and death/liquidation lead to a variety of fiscal repercussions. We offer
support in all of these circumstances, including all categories of taxation.
Concerning tax configuration our business areas are
- Foundation of a company: overall conceptual tax design
which realizes your objectives and management strategy;
- Corporations: strategies to avoid tax disadvantages
in relation with distributions and development of tax related models
for stock option programs;
- Partnerships: balance sheet influencing measures;
- Individuals: models for optimizing the personal tax
burden from the various sources of income as well as from estates and
gifts. In this context we also offer assistance in the configuration
of a testament (or last will) in accordance with civil law, and with
prenuptial agreements;
- Transfer of business capital/assets, development of
business succession concepts both within and outside the family (management
buy-out (MBO), management buy-in (MBI);
- Tax consulting for businesses or departments afflicted
by financial crises - in these cases tax consulting aims at optimizing
and securing fiscal loss carryforward, avoiding of tax on book gains
of debt restructuring;
- Configuration of tax-oriented concepts of employee
participation, stock option, and tracking stocks;
- Restructuring: forms of business organization, merger,
split, spin-off, transfer of businesses as share deal or asset deal,
configuration of partnership for tax purposes;
- Preparation of business acquisitions, fiscal conceptual
design and optimizing of the acquisition formalities including tax indicated
drafting of agreements.
International
Fiscal Law
Consultation regarding any tax related questions both for German companies
in their involvement with foreign countries as well as for foreign businesses
dealing with German organizations. We specialize in consulting for preventing
double taxation as well as utilization of decreases of tax rates existing
between countries, in cases such as
- Transfer pricing issues
- Optimizing of corporate tax rates
- International employee deployment
- Foundation of foreign subsidiaries and branches
- Questions regarding international treaties about double
taxation and foreign transaction tax law
- International business locations
- Relocation of operations to lower taxed locations
- The fiscal aspects of moving abroad
- Questions regarding limited taxation of foreigners
(e.g. taxation of artists).
We cooperate with partners in many countries and therefore are able to fall
back on a network of foreign consultants which ensures adequate representation
almost everywhere.
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