Corporate & group tax law
From preparing company tax returns to structuring intra-group capital transfers: we find practical solutions for you to tackle all the challenges you face.
Key areas of our consulting services include:
- Financial accounting and payment processing
- Tax returns for all direct and indirect taxes (‘tax department outsourcing’)
- Partnerships and groups of partnerships
- VAT and income tax group schemes
- Intra-group restructuring
- Domestic investments by foreign companies
- Analysis of balance sheet and profitability ratios
- Financing negotiations
- Projections and tax liability comparisons
Questions raised by our clients include:
- What is the most suitable legal form for the business model?
- What tax advantages do partnerships offer over limited companies?
- Is the existing corporate structure still efficient from a tax perspective?
- Does restructuring my business make sense from both a business and a tax perspective?
- How can I avoid a demerger?
- Can I reverse an existing business split in a tax-neutral manner?
- Are the service arrangements between me as a shareholder and my company properly structured, or are there tax risks?
- Does it make sense to set up a holding company structure?
- Are there appropriate agreements in place for intra-group service arrangements?
- Are there any tax risks within the group?
- What is the right corporate structure for entering foreign markets?
- Can a company be relocated abroad in a tax-neutral manner?
- What opportunities and risks are involved in establishing production capacity abroad?
- What happens if a shareholder relocates their residence abroad?
- How can I set up a cash pool correctly from a tax perspective?
- Can the tax burden be reduced by entering into profit transfer agreements and establishing a tax group?
- Is it advisable to carry out restructuring measures in the run-up to a business sale in order to reduce the tax burden at the time of the sale?
Advising businesses has been an integral part of our day-to-day work ever since we began our practice. Our clients range from smaller, highly specialised companies with fewer than ten employees to multinational corporations with production facilities in various countries. The day-to-day challenges this presents place the highest demands on both business leaders and ourselves. We help you tackle these challenges with practical, real-world solutions and act as knowledgeable guides and sparring partners for entrepreneurs, managing directors, board members and staff at our clients’ organisations.
Our services in corporate and group tax law include assistance with the preparation of annual accounts and the calculation of income tax provisions, the preparation of corporate tax returns, the accounting assessment of business acquisitions, and the preparation of supplementary and special balance sheets for partnerships. In addition, we assist you in setting up tax group structures for income tax and VAT purposes to avoid unnecessary additional tax burdens and liquidity shortfalls, in structuring intra-group capital transfers, in advising on intra-group restructuring or the integration of newly acquired companies, and in establishing international holding structures.
Our advisory approach is interdisciplinary: we think beyond the boundaries of individual disciplines and provide tax-optimised comprehensive solutions from a single source. We offer a one-stop shop and see ourselves as your external tax department. We are small enough to respond quickly and flexibly to enquiries and changing situations, whilst possessing the necessary breadth of expertise to cover all relevant areas of law.
