With our highly skilled personnel, we are in a position to advise companies of any size in this core area of our tax consulting activity and to develop customized solutions, ranging from the complete handling of financial accounting, which service can also be provided on location at your premises, to consulting and support in sophisticated areas of financial accounting.

On the basis of our long-term experience, we tackle for you even “hard nuts to crack” – ranging from the interface to SAP with monthly settlement to tax and social security issues for employees assigned abroad.

Preparation of annual financial statements for businesses of any legal form – from the association of freelancers, to the classic family enterprise organized as GmbH & Co. KG, to large corporations subject to statutory audit and consolidation rules.

In addition to this, we are always prepared to deal with special cases: Preparation of annual financial statements for foundations and associations, partial financial statements for operating sites of foreign companies, preparation of annual financial statements in a group including consolidation, preparation of pro forma statements, interim statements or extraordinary statements for the purpose of determining compensation payments etc. – in short, financial statements and balance sheets for any purpose.

Financial accounting, annual financial statements, tax returns – these are the basics in the life of a tax advisor. Full competence in this field is for us a matter of course. This also includes representation in any required remedial proceedings or hearings on the deferral or cancellation of tax demands.

Regrettably, there is no ideal legal form per se for an enterprise.

Rather, it is the concrete circumstances and framework conditions that are decisive for determining the “right” legal form for an enterprise, taking into consideration economic, tax-related, organizational and legal factors.

Our specialists in the areas of tax consulting, business management and legal counseling will help you in finding the right legal form and organizational structure for your enterprise on the basis of a careful analysis of all relevant aspects.

Competent consulting on inheritance tax and gift tax issues is part of our bread-and-butter work. In this context it is especially important to take advantage of a full consulting service under one roof, which is based on all tax-related and legal aspects.

The negotiations of the beneficiaries and legatees concerning the distribution of the legal estate are not always conducted in harmony and without problems. Often, there is a multitude of legal and tax-related aspects to be considered, especially if the arrangements of the testator do not correspond to the actual circumstances, giving rise to problematic constellations.

Reasonable arrangements help to avoid unnecessary inheritance tax charges, but they also prevent unpleasant disputes among the beneficiaries.

Furthermore, we evaluate the assets of the testator for the distribution of the legal estate (determination of current market value by our financial auditors) and for the determination of the inheritance tax to be paid.

Private asset planning as we see it is the development of a comprehensive finance and financial security strategy on the basis of your targets and requests. The prerequisite for this is the determination of the actual situation. Once it has been established, a quick implementation of partial planning, such as the implications of acquiring real estate, becomes possible as well.

After having determined the actual situation (assets, liabilities, insurances, current revenues and expenditures), we prepare a long-term forecast analysis by means of various scenarios.

Such planning is the only way to make the constraints and opportunities of your asset management transparent. Then you can determine the concrete measures to be taken.

For substantial assets, we offer comprehensive Family Office services.

In case of substantial real estate property, the real estate management and the accounting involved can become a time-consuming task. As is the case for financial accounting, we are happy to take charge of your asset accounting and to attend to the legal issues concerning tenants and the authorities.

Tax implications for international business relations arise at two levels: Firstly, it is necessary to seek specialist tax advice if you have a subsidiary or a business unit operating abroad.

Secondly, international business relations also have a broad-ranging impact at home – starting from sophisticated questions concerning cross-border VAT law, to problems with international transfer pricing, to the application of double taxation agreements, to questions regarding the German international transactions tax law. With the continued internationalization of our markets, these issues increasingly concern even smaller companies, which are mostly operating within their national borders.

Regrettably, the German tax legislation is not a very reliable basis for long-term planning. There is hardly any tax law persisting even one single year without substantial amendments. Despite this, it is essential to develop long-term plans and strategies for your enterprise – not only with respect to business management but also in regard to tax-related and legal issues. We advise and support you in the preparation of tax strategies and tax planning.

As we stay in close and continuous contact with our clients, we are able to gain a thorough understanding of your company, its internal structures, its strong and weak points as well as your interests and preferences. Therefore, we are in a position to give competent advice on tax-related, economic and legal issues within the framework of long-term planning to secure the company succession.

With our long-term experience in these areas, we can also be of assistance in the search for a suitable successor outside your own family, in finding a financial investor and in creating models for a foundation or for the involvement and participation of employees.

As a matter of course, the representation of our clients before tax and customs authorities in all tax cases, including remedial proceedings, is included in our services. In proceedings before fiscal courts and the Federal Fiscal Court, our specialized lawyers undertake the legal representation.

Due to the complexity of our tax laws, the limits of what is permitted are easily transgressed – often without the client even being aware of such a transgression. Our tax advisors and lawyers advise and represent you in tax offence proceedings before the fiscal authorities. In judicial tax offense proceedings, we work together with criminal law experts so that we can provide comprehensive advice in this interdisciplinary field as well.