Save taxes on capital payments under the company pension scheme (bAV), severance payments and after active partial retirement

– How to design more retirement income and pension increases early on ?   “He who does not work should not eat” (Franz Müntefering, 09.05.2006)   In the last up to more than 35 years, people’s parties have more than halved the statutory net pension level. The cost of an equally high funded pension in […]

Claims to daily sickness benefits despite partial retirement and also without loss of income

– Judgment of the Regional Court (LG) Nuremberg-Fürth confirms claims even without monetary need –   Also with the conclusion of a sickness daily benefit (KT) insurance as so-called sum insurance, insurers try in many concrete cases to refer to the fact that the insurance customer had no damage by the inability to work, and […]

Insurance fraud in connection with partial retirement, working time accounts and pension commitments via double trust (CTA)

Total loss in the case of partial retirement, working time accounts and pension commitments How directors, other officers, or self-employed agents completely lose their retirement benefits due to ineffective trust models.   The business model of renowned corporate consultants for occupational pension schemes (bAV) includes the provision of the reinsurance assets by means of a […]

Book tip: Partial retirement/time value account: Handbook for personnel and payroll practice (review)

*by lawyer Dr. Johannes Fiala, MBA Financial Services (Univ. Wales), MM (Univ.), banker (IHK), certified financial and investment advisor (A.F.A.), lecturer for civil law and insurance law (Univ. of Cooperative Education) Practical guide Now in its 5th edition, this handbook provides an excellent overview of partial retirement, sometimes also referred to in practice as the […]

How retirement income and pension increases can be designed at an early stage

In the last up to more than 35 years, people’s parties have more than halved the statutory net pension level. The cost of an equally high funded pension in safe government bonds has approximately tripled as a result of political decisions. subscribers of Basic income support – most of which is not applied for by […]

Working time credits predominantly unprotected

– Why employer time value accounts regularly do not offer insolvency protection –   The “Flexi II Act” came into force on 01.09.2009. This was intended to provide employees with better protection against loss in the event of the employer’s insolvency. Today, this proves to be incorrect in at least 98% of the companies.   […]

Doubling of the tax burden due to private and occupational pensions

– When Social security and tax administration charge the citizen twice ? – The Regional Social Court of Rhineland-Palatinate (LSG Rheinland-Pfalz, judgement of 03.12.2015, ref. L 5 KR 84/15) ruled that when reinvesting the capital benefit of a company direct insurance by purchasing a private immediate annuity, compulsory contributions to the statutory health (GKV) and […]

Books / Technical articles

Publications – Technical papers Fiala/Schramm, Insolvency risk of British life insurers when relocating to Ireland, ExpertenReport, issue 7/2019, pages 60-62 Fiala/Schramm, When are insurers no longer obliged to pay benefits or can reduce benefits?Expert Report, issue 3/2019, pages 56-58 Fiala/Schramm, No insurance coverage in case of refusal to pay protection money, ExpertenReport, issue 11/2018. Pages […]

The company pension scheme

If the company pension does not deliver what you were promised Every day we learn from politicians and the media that the statutory pension will at some point not be sufficient to maintain the accustomed standard of living in life after a professional career. Those of us who have taken out a company pension in […]