Tax
Our approach is to resolve tax law issues in a target-oriented, creative and sustainable manner.
Our tax law expertise is relied upon not only by domestic and international groups, family and medium-sized companies but also by wealthy private clients, entrepreneurs, senior executives and famous sportspeople as well as various institutions
About us
Tax law issues are generally complex and multifaceted. They require individual solutions. We can build upon many years of successful practice of solving complex issues in particular regarding tax structuring, tax disputes and criminal tax law. A major asset of our practice is our interdisciplinary team of attorneys, tax consultants and auditors who work seamlessly hand in hand on the areas of lax law, tax consultation and the Seitz Unternehmer-Office.
In crisis or penal risk situations in particular, we can provide our clients with the resources required to analyse and resolve the situations flexibly and successfully. Our considerable, tried-and-tested resources allow us to determine, prepare and assess the relevant facts fully and efficiently. Based on this our criminal tax law experts join with our in tax law and tax accountancy experts to develop a comprehensive defence strategy.
Scope of activities
Tax Law
taxation of companies
- Company and group taxation
- Family business tax law
- Restructuring and transformations
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Tax-optimised corporate financing
- Preparation and support for external audits
- Negotiation with fiscal authorities to secure binding assessment and factual agreements
- Legal representation in out-of-court procedures and tax law litigation
taxation of non-profit organisations / NGOs
- Ongoing legal and tax advice for non-profit organisations
- Advising donors (companies, private persons, public bodies) of non-profit organisations
- Advice for domestic and foreign family foundations and trusts
taxation of private individuals, inheritance tax and gift tax
- Legal and tax aspects of wealth planning
- National and international asset succession
- Inheritance tax structuring
- Estate planning, including wills and gift agreements
- Taxation of inheritance and gifts
- Taxation of private assets
- Taxation for artists and sportspeople
international tax law
- Application and interpretation of double taxation agreements
- Expatriation and immigration planning for natural persons and businesses
- Cross-border investments (inbound/outbound)
- Cross-border restructuring and transformations
- International mergers & acquisitions
- International transfer prices and function relocations
- International licenses and levies between affiliated companies
- Dealing with the German Controlled Foreign Corporations Regime
- International succession planning
- International exchange of information
- Execution/support with international agreement and settlement procedures
- Execution/support with advance pricing agreements
transfer pricing
- conception, design and support of transfer pricing systems
- implementation, revision and update of transfer pricing documentation
- implementation, revision and update of data base analyses
- assessment / legal opinions on transfer pricing schemes, licenses, levies, pooling agreements, etc. between affiliated companies
- participation (also as additional specialized consultants) in audits regarding transfer pricing
- negotiations with the financial authorities, applications for binding information and factual agreements regarding transfer pricing
- performance/support of international mutual agreement procedures
- performance/support of advance pricing agreements
Tax consulting
Preparation of year-end financial reports and interim financial reports
Preparation of tax declarations for businesses and private individuals
Preparation of tax declarations in international matters
Support of business audits
Management of and representation in out-of-court legal procedures
Tax law litigation
Support of business reorganizations
Financial accounting and reporting
Payroll accounting
Set-up of cost accounting procedures
Business Advice
Optimization of investment and financing
Asset management and structuring
Entrepreneur Office
Total assets reporting
- Detailed and comprehensive survey of the asset status in the form of a financial statement
- Comprehensive assessment of all income and expenditure streams as well as tax planning
- Examination of the asset and earnings structures in regard to your individual situation and planning
- Review of asset succession scenario in place
- Optimisation of the earnings and security structure of the assets
Securities reporting
- Regular individual and consolidated reporting on your securities account
- Comparability of the performance of the asset manager through uniform measuring of performance
- Structure analysis of your securities assets
- Monitoring investment policies and conditions
- Tax reporting
Participation reporting
- Planning calculation
- Actual/target comparison based on prospectus information and the actual distributions and allocation of results
- Analysis of reporting by the respective investment company
Asset controlling
- Regular review of compliance with agreements
- Analysis of the risk structure
- Assessment of the investments entered into
Consulting
Our advice exclusively geared to your interests. We are known for independence and objectivity.
Criminal tax law
Business and criminal tax law defences
Advice on Compliance – in particular development of guidelines and concepts for the avoidance of business tax risks and business risks relating to criminal tax law
Support for members of executive bodies, corporate governance and corporate compliance
Preventative advice to avoid criminal tax law exposure
Advice on retrospective tax declarations/voluntary declaration
Expert assessment of questions related to tax law and criminal tax law
Negotiating factual agreement in ongoing criminal tax proceeding
Guidelines and concepts for the detection of risks under criminal tax law in business